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How to Help Someone to Quit Smoking Without Hating You
Do you bite your tongue every time a beloved family member or friend lights up or steps outside for a smoke? Or maybe you’ve tried the opposite tack: nagging. Neither approach works, experts say. What has helped thousands of smokers to quit, they point out, are the following simple strategies.
Keep the focus on you — [...]
FDA Tobacco Panel Includes Members With Quit-Smoking Ties
The Food and Drug Administration on Monday named at least two scientists with ties to pharmaceutical companies that market stop-smoking medicine to a scientific panel that will help it regulate the tobacco industry.
Jack Henningfield, a vice president of research and health policy with Pinney Associates, a consulting firm whose clients include GlaxoSmithKline PLC, will be [...]
Environmental tobacco smoke link to childhood asthma
Childhood exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) in the home is significantly associated with an increased risk for wheeze and asthma, research confirms.
Previous studies have shown that maternal smoking during pregnancy increases the risk for wheeze, asthma, and other health problems in children, explain Yungling Leo Lee (National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan) and colleagues.
But they [...]
Dowell helps smokers quit
With Towson University’s upcoming smoking ban fast approaching, some members of the campus community are finding the help they need to quit smoking at Dowell Health Center.
The Health Center is hosting a smoking cessation program to help both students and faculty fight their addiction to cigarettes. Dowell began hosting free smoking cessation classes during winter [...]
Stop smoking using a common sense approach
To help determine a patient’s health priority, I frequently ask myself the question “What is the most important change they can make to improve their health?” For smokers, finding a way to quit is often at the top of the list.
To help my patients achieve this health goal, I’ve developed the Integrated Smoke Cessation Program. [...]
Event informs about tobacco’s dangers
The University of Cincinnati joined The American Cancer Society to host the 34th annual Great American Smokeout Challenge, Thursday, Nov. 19 an event designed as an encouragement to quit tobacco use.
The event challenged those who do not know how to approach quitting to give up cigarettes or chewing tobacco for 24 hours.
The Smokeout attempts to [...]
Stop exhibiting use of tobacco in films
Speakers at a human chain yesterday demanded immediate steps to stop the use of tobacco in dramas, films and electronic media to prevent the youths of the country picking up the tobacco habit including smoking.
They also called upon the government to take initiatives to implement Tobacco Control Law to save the new generation of the [...]
It’s never too late to come out and quit
TORONTO, – The Canadian Cancer Society in Ontario has developed a new information and awareness resource entitled “Facts about Tobacco for Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual People: Reasons and Resources for Quitting Smoking”.
Research has indicated that smoking rates are higher in lesbian, gay and bisexual communities. As an organization committed to tobacco control, the Canadian Cancer [...]
New Program Helps Mental Health Patients Stop Smoking
Experts say that tobacco use among mental health patients account for nearly half of all cigarettes consumed in the United States.
A program developed by the division of addiction psychiatry at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School to address this addiction has received national recognition by the American Psychiatric [...]
Smokers need support to quit
By Julie Wolf
Have you ever been stuck next to a smoker?
Have you been at a bar, enjoying your drinks when you notice the air is swirling with smoke from someone’s cigarette?
Smoke smells bad. It makes your eyes water and it can make you cough, even if you aren’t the one smoking. But it can also [...]
Need help to stop tobacco use?
“Kick the Butts,” a class to help stop smoking and the use of chewing tobacco, will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. Mondays from Sept. 14 through Oct. 13 at the Vacaville Public Library-Cultural Center in the library’s story-time room at 1020 Ulatis Drive.
The class on Oct. 13 will be at a different time, [...]
Adult Smoking Drops Again
Health department focusing efforts on reaching groups still smoking at higher
rates
OLYMPIA, Wash., Sept. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Washington’s adult smoking
rate has hit a new low for the sixth consecutive year. Results from the
state’s most recent survey show the smoking rate has dropped to 15.3 percent
– down from 16.5 percent the previous year. Washington has the sixth [...]
Secondhand smoke worsens outcome of acute coronary syndrome
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Environmental exposure to tobacco smoke – a known risk factor for myocardial infarction and other acute coronary syndromes (ACS) – can also worsen prognosis after ACS, according to a new study.
“These findings suggest that, by reducing exposure to secondhand smoke, smoke-free legislation may not only reduce the incidence of cardiovascular [...]
What’s the best way to quit smoking?
With so many options on the market for programs, pills and treatments to help you kick the habit, how can you tell which is the best method to use? TIME asked Dr. Michael Fiore, a professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and founder of the school’s Center for Tobacco Research [...]
