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Carlos Slim and Bill Gates work on Latam health program
Carlos Slim and Bill Gates, the world’s richest men with a combined fortune of over $100 billion, announced a joint effort on Monday that will bring basic preventive health care to poor people in southern Mexico and Central America. Mexican tycoon Slim took the top spot in the Forbes’ list of the world’s wealthiest for [...]
“Quit Smoking” Programs Reduce Premiums
A months-old Oregon law that requires health insurers to offer benefits encouraging people to quit smoking could become one of the state’s most cost-effective healthcare policies, at least in one doctor’s opinion. “For a smoker, there’s nothing more potent for improving health than quitting,” said Dr. Charles Bentz, medical director of Legacy Health System’s Tobacco [...]
Forrest General offers free program to tobacco users
Forrest General Wellness is home to one of 27 free tobacco cessation programs that are part of a statewide system of clinics supported by the ACT Center for Tobacco Treatment, Education and Research, a program of the University of Mississippi Medical Center. The program provides tested, evidence-based treatment including supportive counseling by trained professionals and [...]
Gets an F in funding for prevention, cessation coverage
Maryland received two failing grades in a national report card that monitors tobacco programs – despite having smoking rates below the national level. The American Lung Association yesterday released its annual State of Tobacco Control report card in which each state is graded in four categories – tobacco prevention and control spending, cigarette tax, smoke-free [...]
CA mammogram program for low-income women halted
LOS ANGELES—California officials plan to suspend new enrollments for a program that tests low-income women for breast cancer and to tighten eligibility standards when the program reopens. The Every Woman Counts program won’t enroll new clients from Jan. 1 until July 2, 2010, and will restrict enrollment to women over the age of 50 thereafter. [...]
Tobacco Cessation Program to Hold Free Class
Southeastern District Health Department to Offer Free Workshop Tobacco Cessation Program to Hold Free Class Pocatello – Most people want to quit tobacco but just don’t know how. Nancy Caspersen, RN, will teach you how to quit. Classes will begin on Monday, November 30th and continue through Thursday, December 3rd, 2009. Time options are from [...]
Free Smoking Cessation Program
It’s one of the toughest habits to drop, but metro Detroiters don’t have to quit smoking alone. Mount Clemens Regional Medical Center’s Ted B. Wahby Cancer Center is offering a free, four-session smoking cessation program at 1:00 p.m. on November 12, 17, 19 and 24. Participants are asked to attend all four sessions. The program [...]
American Lung Association Urges Full Coverage of Clinically Proven Smoking Cessation Treatments
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — As the debate over health care reform dominates the media and political arena, a new American Lung Association report finds that states aren’t doing enough to help smokers quit – and policymakers must fix this in the health care reform process. In its new report, Helping Smokers Quit: State Cessation [...]
Government of Canada Announces Tobacco Cessation Programs for Mount Royal University
Lee Richardson, Member of Parliament for Calgary Centre, today announced on behalf of the Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health, funding for a smoking cessation project that will help reduce tobacco use among students and staff at Mount Royal University. “The Government of Canada is proud to be working with Mount Royal University and its [...]
NBCH Releases: Tobacco Cessation Efforts of Health Plans
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 – Tobacco cessation is one of the most cost-effective activities an employer can implement to improve the health and productivity of their employees while reducing health care costs. To help employers in this effort, the non-profit National Business Coalition on Health today released its report on health plan performance related to tobacco [...]
Cherokee Nation to hold tobacco cessation information meetings
TAHLEQUAH — The Cherokee Nation will be holding informational meetings on upcoming Tobacco Cessation Classes beginning at noon Thursday and again at 5:30 p.m. in the tribe’s Healthy Nation conference room, located at the Male Seminary Complex in Tahlequah. The meetings will contain information about the dangers of tobacco use, and class members also are [...]
Iowa smoking cessation services help to ‘kick the habit’
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa — The University of Northern Iowa Center for Social and Behavioral Research (CSBR) presented the results of state-funded smoking cessation services to the Iowa Tobacco Commission in Des Moines in late September. The CSBR evaluated cessation services by interviewing clients three months to a year after they began to receive services. They [...]
Smoking Cessation Drug Not Linked To An Increased Risk Of Self Harm Or Depression
There is no strong evidence that the popular smoking cessation drug varenicline increases the risk of self harm or depression compared to other cessation products, according to new research published on http://www.bmj.com today. Varenicline is a recently introduced smoking cessation product of proven effectiveness, but there have been concerns that it may increase the risk [...]
Cessation programs facing funding cut in the state budget
Sandy Banks lit her last cigarette five years ago and has been a non-smoker ever since. The Carlisle woman said she smoked for 48 years before giving up the habit. “I really enjoyed smoking,” Banks said. Banks completed a smoking cessation program through the Sadler Health Center and the Cumberland-Perry Drug & Alcohol Commission. “I’ve [...]
