Quit smoking
More smokers quit using NHS help
NHS smoking services helped a record number of people quit last year, figures show. The NHS Information Centre said 373,964 had successfully given up, an 11% rise from the 337,054 who gave up in in 2008/09. The figures are for people in England who successfully stopped when they were followed up after four-weeks. A separate [...]
Daddy don’t smoke
Fathers who can’t seem to quit smoking will have to choose between their daily nicotine fix and the pleasure of kissing and cuddling their children. Recent studies have found a link between passive smoking and the deadly meningococcal disease — commonly called ‘brain fever’. Australian researchers have proved that children exposed to passive smoke and [...]
Nicotine replacement before quitting cigarettes?
Normally, nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) — including nicotine patches, gum, lozenges and nasal sprays — is begun once a smoker quits. But some recent studies have looked at whether “pre-quitting” NRT, begun a few weeks before a smokers’ scheduled quit date, can help boost success rates. In theory, this tactic could help by familiarizing smokers [...]
Fruits Juice Helps to Quit Smoking
According to the World Health Organization about 20% of the population uses cigarettes. Smoking causes more than one in five preventable deaths across the United States. Up-to-date medicine proposes pills and patches that will help you stop smoking, but the elementary way to prevent the cancer, heart disease, and emphysema sticks has nothing to do [...]
U.S. government uses social media tobacco education
ATLANTA, June 22 (UPI) — The U.S. government is using social media and other materials to educate the public about new Tobacco Control Act regulations, health officials said. “Tobacco use is the single largest preventable cause of death, killing 443,000 Americans every year and costing $193 billion in annual direct medical costs and lost productivity,” [...]
Ways to Quit Smoking
Smoking is a really bad habit and once started it is not easy to stop. There are millions of people smoking all over the world at this very moment. Smoking is not at all good for your health but people still smoke. Most of the people do want to quit smoking but, cannot do so. [...]
Quitting Smoking can Speed Bone Curing
Every day health researchers find more and more negative effect of smoking cigs for to convince people to quit this habit. But unfortunately not all their findings are real and especially smokers can’t believe that smoking is as harmful as researchers say. For example, Swedish researchers recently found that patients who quit smoking within days [...]
Quitting smoking may ease stress levels
The findings, say researchers, should give smokers reassurance that quitting will not deprive them of a valuable stress reliever. In a study of 469 smokers who tried to quit after being hospitalized for heart disease, the researchers found that those who remained abstinent for a year showed a reduction in their perceived stress levels. In [...]
Slash Quit Smoking
Slash has revealed he diced to quit smoking a year ago after seeing his mother Ola Hudson die from lung cancer. Slash was motivated to quit smoking after his mother died of lung cancer. The former Guns N’ Roses guitarist hasn’t smoked for a year and admits seeing his beloved parent Ola Hudson lose her [...]
More can be done more to help smokers quit
In the most comprehensive national study of its kind, Elisa K. Tong of the Division of General Medicine at UC Davis, reported that health professionals in the United States do not fully follow national guidelines for working with patients who use tobacco products. Survey participants cited numerous barriers to compliance with the guidelines, including their [...]
Health-care law improves insurance coverage for new mothers
By the time women reach 44 years old, roughly 85 percent have given birth. Yet even though pregnancy and childbirth are such commonplace events, health insurance coverage and support services to keep mothers and babies healthy are often seriously deficient. Some private insurers, for example, treat pregnancy as a preexisting condition and charge pregnant women [...]
Swiss start to cut back smoking habit
A survey of Swiss smoking habits over the past decade shows fewer teenagers taking up the habit and half of smokers wanting to give it up. While the overall number of smokers in Switzerland has remained stable in recent years, industry experts predict more demographic shifts among smokers in the years ahead. According to the [...]
Oregon to offer tobacco cessation
Oregon smokers who want to quit may find it a little easier due to some recent developments. For one, state legislators recently passed a new law that requires health insurance companies that do business in Oregon to provide a tobacco cessation benefit. “This is a great benefit,” said Dr. Charles Bentz, a Portland-based physician who [...]
Montana Tobacco Quit Line
The Montana Tobacco Quit Line is extending its May promotion of four weeks of free Nicotine Replacement Therapy (patches, gum or lozenges), the Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS) announced Monday. “The Quit Line had an increase in calls from the May promotion and we want to keep up the incentive to quit [...]
