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Willpower works better than patches if you want to quit smoking
Smokers desperate to quit should put their faith in willpower rather than expensive patches and gums, researchers said last night.
A review of hundreds of studies into smoking cessation has revealed that the overwhelming majority of ex-smokers gave up without resorting to nicotine replacement therapies.
Old-fashioned willpower alone was enough to make them quit their habit.
What is [...]
Anti-smoking drive from Jan 26
BANGALORE: Over a hundred children from Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Vidya Mandir (SSRVM) school, along with their teachers, participated in an anti-smoking rally that was held simultaneously at the Koramangala BDA complex, Forum Mall and Raheja Arcade. Children are especially prone to the effects of smoking, said Ujval Shankar, co-ordinator of Art of Living Koramangala [...]
Large variations in mortality between countries, men and women
New figures on deaths from cancer in Europe show a steady decline in mortality between the periods 1990-1994 and 2000-2004. Deaths from all cancers in the European Union (EU) between these two periods fell by nine percent in men and eight percent in women, with a large drop among the middle-aged population.
In a study published [...]
Good intentions go up in smoke
More and more people are trying to give up smoking – but new research suggests the habit is still as hard as ever to kick.
Up to 66 per cent of NSW smokers will try to quit in the next six months – seven per cent more than in 2005 – according to the Cancer Institute [...]
All flavored tobacco are prohibited across New York City
Last month New York City Council nearly unanimously voted for an ordinance, expanding the federal ban on flavored cigarettes, in order to include all tobacco products that contain flavorings.
Therefore, all tobacco products, including cigarillos, cigars, loose tobacco and other tobacco products that contain flavoring agents are banned from sales in all stores and other authorized [...]
Five nonsmokers paradises
The world’s biggest tobacco-consuming countries that I profiled in my last post, including Greece, Russia and Austria, are also among the top travel spots, but the opposite isn’t quite the case.
Countries with the lowest reported adult smokers, as you’ll notice in the list below, don’t all provide dream vacations.
But there are some nice hangouts not [...]
Rats, drugs, stress and repeated behavior
Matthew Pitts puts his dog outside each morning, lights a cigarette and gets to work by 6 a.m. At age 27, the Sioux Falls shop manager has cut his smoking to a half-pack a day and his coffee to one or two cups. He’s tried to quit smoking, but he’s found that routine, social connections [...]
Workplace study: 45% of food-service workers smoke
If you break smokers down by their occupations, the workers who are most likely to smoke are in the food-service industry, says a report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
Out of all U.S. full-time employees ages 18 to 64, more than 33.6 million (28% of the total) smoked cigarettes in the past [...]
Options to end smoking
There are a few different things a person can do to kick the habit of smoking. Some try going “cold turkey,” thinking he or she can stop smoking altogether, while there are some who try to quit smoking in other ways.
Cyndra Krogen, health educator for alcohol, tobacco and other drugs at Sacramento State, said students [...]
No freedom to smoke
Hong Kong cultural activist Leung Man Tao is a smoker. For many times, he just disappeared when we were giving a speech, dining or chatting and was later found smoking outside.
Leung has been devoting himself to Buddhism in recent years and he has even quit alcohol. However, he is still quite persistent in smoking.
When I [...]
Children exposed to Nicotine Poisoning
Most of tobacco workers in Africa, especially in Malawi, are kids. Every day they are exposed to high levels of nicotine poisoning, a recent investigation found.
As the tobacco industry continues to move its production to developing countries, more unprotected children are being exposed to these dangerous working conditions. It is considered that over 78,000 children [...]
Quit smoking with drop-in support
Smokers who are ready to quit now have access to free local support.
MK News – Generic smoking a fag
Drop-in sessions are to be held at The Irish Centre, Fenny Stratford from Tuesday, September 1 and will offer advice, support and motivation.
It is estimated that around a quarter of Milton Keynes’ population are smokers, however statistics [...]
Smoke-free workplaces? The entire property?
The AARP/Blue Zones Vitality Project is about making the healthy choice the easy choice, and local business representatives learned how they can make it an easy choice for their employees to quit smoking.
“It’s still a leading cause of illness and death in America, and it’s preventable. It is an addiction and a very challenging thing,” [...]
Shatrughan Sinha Promotes Tobacco-free Lifestyle
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Patna Saheb, Shatrughan Sinha, while attending a function at J. D. Women’s College in Patna on Monday, once again emphasized the harms of tobacco products saying more people will die of cancer in next 8-10 years worldwide than any other disease or reasons.
Jointly organized by the Mahavir Cancer Institute, [...]
