Benefits of quiting
Longtime Marijuana Smoking May Raise Psychosis Risk
Young adults who are longtime pot smokers are more likely to have hallucinations, delusions, or to display signs of psychosis than short-term smokers or people who’ve never smoked marijuana.
The finding comes from a study of 3,801 young adults who were asked about their pot use and then evaluated to determine if they’d experienced “psychotic outcomes.”
The [...]
Third-hand smoke also a cancer risk
WASHINGTON – You know smoking is bad for you. You know inhaling someone else’s smoke is bad for you. Now a U.S. study says third-hand smoke — tobacco residue clinging to surfaces — is also bad for you.
When a cigarette burns, nicotine is released in the form of a vapour that collects and condenses on [...]
Can Smoking Cause Infertility?
If you are having trouble getting pregnant and are a smoker, that might be the problem.
Many studies and much research has been done on the subject of smoking as it affects fertility, and the results seem conclusive: Smoking has an adverse affect on fertility.
Based on research, cigarette smokers are known to have several fertility issues [...]
Smoking, low folic acid, high blood pressure restrict fetal growth
The lifestyle habits you bring into pregnancy can have lasting effects on your baby’s health, new research shows.
A Dutch study found that women who smoked, had high blood pressure or low folic acid levels in early pregnancy had babies that were smaller in the first trimester of pregnancy and had a higher risk of complications [...]
Lifestyle change can affect blood pressure, but it’s not the whole story
So how much good will it do if you get more exercise, consume less salt, ramp up on potassium, eat the DASH way, give up smoking,take up meditation? Does it all add up to some impressive total that will knock your doctor’s socks off the next check-up time?
It depends a lot on where you start [...]
You Docs: Your anti-cancer menu
Call it eating for a cause. Plan your menu in a way that helps knock out the third leading cancer for both men and women: colorectal cancer. Here’s how:
•BREAKFAST: Add sliced bananas — a good source of vitamin B-6 — and you could reduce your risk of colorectal cancer by 20 percent to 30 percent. [...]
Cigarettes might be infectious
The tobacco in cigarettes hosts a bacterial bonanza — literally hundreds of different germs, including those responsible for many human illnesses, a new study finds.
“Nearly every paper that you pick up discussing the health effects of cigarettes starts out with something to the effect that smokers and people exposed to secondhand smoke experience high rates [...]
Erlotinib Dosing in Lung Cancer Depends on Smoking Status
Although erlotinib is an approved second-line therapy for lung cancer, its management is complicated by side effects that get worse as the dose increases.
“Increased doses may lead to better outcomes, so we are trying to determine how high we can go with this agent without having to stop,” said Lynsay Waller, M.D., a fellow at [...]
Obesity surpasses smoking as top health threat
Obesity is now a bigger overall threat to people’s health than smoking, according to results of the longest ongoing health study of adults in the United States.
Obesity causes as much or more disease than tobacco, says the study, conducted by researchers from Columbia University and the City College of New York. It adds that while [...]
Smoking increases heart transplant risk
BALTIMORE, — Smoking in both the donor and the recipient should become part of the risk calculus in heart organ donation, U.S. researchers suggest.
Senior author Mandeep R. Mehra of the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the University of Maryland Medical Center says the study, conducted in rats, involved exposure to levels of tobacco [...]
Smoking is a risk factor for rheumatoid arthritis
NEW YORK – Smoking is a risk factor for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a new analysis of 16 studies confirms.
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The effect is especially strong in men and heavy smokers, the researchers found. And men who tested positive for rheumatoid factor (RF), a self-attacking antibody found in about 80 percent of RA patients, were at even higher [...]
Assistance available to quit smoking
THE VILLAGES — As the New Year approaches, some residents are creating their resolution lists, and “quit smoking” could be their top goal.
Local health department officials remind residents about smoking-cessation programs and tips that can help them carry through with this resolution.
Smokers need to have a plan for quitting smoking, said Kimberly Alfrey, tobacco prevention [...]
Piling on the Pounds and Smoking May Accelerate Skin Aging
Ever seen that grandmother beside your house and wondered how she has managed to retain a youthful-looking skin? The process of aging is a mysterious one with scientists trying to find various factors that may accelerate this process. New research has now indicated that excessive weight as well as smoking may adversely affect the skin.
Researchers [...]
First cancer genome sequences reveal how mutations lead to disease
Scientists have reconstructed the biological history of two types of cancer in a genetic tour de force that promises to transform medical treatment of the disease.
The feat, a world first, lays bare every genetic mutation the patients have acquired over their lifetimes that eventually caused healthy cells in their bodies to turn into tumours.
The procedure [...]
