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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 [...]
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 [...]
Can infants’ wheezing be prevented?
In a study of close to 29,000 children in two European and four Latin American countries, researchers found that in general, certain factors were consistently linked with the risk of infant wheezing. Overall, babies who’d had a cold in the first three months of life were roughly three times more likely than other infants to [...]
Weight Counseling Plus Drug Helps Women Quit Smoking
Behavioral therapy with a focus on weight-counseling combined with the smoking-cessation medicine bupropion (Zyban) is more effective than standard counseling alone in helping women quit smoking, according to a new study. The research, published March 22 in Archives of Internal Medicine, included 349 female smokers who were concerned about their weight. The women were randomly [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
