Tag Archive
Smokers Health & Passive Smoking
The smokers’ health can be attacked even by their cigarette smoke, a recent study found. Researchers warn that those who inhale their own secondhand smoke, especially while puffing out in enclosed areas like smoking lounges, may face serious health risks.
This recent study found that smokers can inhale toxins even from their secondhand smoke, which may [...]
The dangers of home oxygen and smoking
QUINCY — Home oxygen equipment is a lifesaver. A medical device, it allows patients with breathing problems to stay in their homes and lead a normal life. But like any medical device, it can be deadly.
In Massachusetts several fatal fires have moved investigators to look more deeply into the dangers of home oxygen, especially when [...]
Going Cold Turkey – Is it Possible to Quit Smoking This Way?
Statistics clearly demonstrates that when trying to quit their habit, smokers rely on their own will power much more often than on other cessation strategies. The major part of smokers goes cold turkey, by simply getting rid of cigarettes without any medical help, when they attempt to quit for the first time. According to the [...]
How to stop smoking- naturally
Another New Year has passed, and thousands are making the resolution, for the first or fiftieth time, to quit smoking. There is a multi-billion dollar industry for smoking cessation products, which, sadly, are a waste of money for most buyers. Pharmaceutical companies claim that nicotine-replacement therapy (NRT) is twice as effective as placebo, but the [...]
Should cigarette manufacturers contribute to education?
The question has arisen after a school in Sichuan province had its signboard engraved with the words “Sichuan Tobacco Project Hope Primary School”. A slogan engraved on another board goes: “Aspire to contribute to society/Tobacco helps you become a talent.” The reason is the school was built with money from China Tobacco.
The controversial signboards have [...]
Quitting smoking with help from your cell phone
Switching to light cigarettes isn’t going to help kick the habit, says a new study released this week, but playing a game on your cell phone may be an alternative to smoking in the future.
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh found that smokers who went to low-tar, light or mild brand of cigarette were [...]
A CDC second-hand smokescreen
Six years ago, when I asked an epidemiologist about a report that a smoking ban in Helena, Mont., had cut heart attacks by 40 percent within six months, he thought the idea was so ridiculous that no one would take it seriously.
He was wrong.
Since then, 10 other studies have attributed substantial short-term reductions in heart [...]
Statewide Teen Smoking-Cessation Trial is the First to Achieve Significant Increase in Prolonged Quit Rates
SEATTLE, Oct. 12 /PRNewswire/ — For the first time, researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have demonstrated that it is possible to successfully recruit and retain a large number of adolescent smokers from the general population into a smoking intervention study and, through personalized, proactive telephone counseling, significantly impact rates of six-month continuous quitting. [...]
Hypnosis may help area smokers to quit
CAMBRIA — A Cambria businessman and veteran who found a way to quit smoking is spearheading an effort to give others the opportunity to do the same.
Kurt Skinner, originally from West Bend, owns and operates South Central Wisconsin Auto Glass Re-pair in Cambria with his wife, Bambi. They started the business in June.
“I do chips [...]
NHS Stop Smoking Service celebrates 10th year
More than 54,000 people have been helped to quit smoking in Kent and Medway since the NHS service was launched.
Celebrating its 10th birthday this week, the NHS Stop Smoking Service is hoping to draw in more volunteers to stub out the evil weed.
In this county alone, 54,429 people have puffed their last cigarette.
Those who want to [...]
Pakistan Ramadan Fights Smoking
ISLAMABAD — Shah Zareen, 45, has been smoking for most of his adult life.
But he is determined to emerge victorious from his painstaking battle against smoking during the holy fasting month of Ramadan.
“I will begin my mission from this Ramadan,” Zareen, a juice shop owner, told IslamOnline.net.
During Ramadan, adult Muslims, save the sick and those [...]
New quit smoking program may help you quit smoking
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Have you tried to quit smoking without success? There’s a new program that may be able to help.
For many smokers, cigarettes control their lives.
Former smoker Kathy Hill said, “I always had a cigarette. The first thing on my mind in the morning would be having a cigarette. When i was at work [...]
Anti-smoking group wary of where smoke blows
LINCOLN, Neb. – Now that an anti-smoking group has lost the fight over whether cigar bars exist in Nebraska, it’s focusing on where the smoke blows.
Mark Welsch, president of the Group to Alleviate Smoking Pollution, told regulators Thursday that smoking in cigar bars shouldn’t be exempt from the state’s anti-smoking law if smoke infiltrates neighboring [...]
Body Worlds Teams Up with Anti-Smoking Advocates
BUFFALO, – The Buffalo Museum of Science and Body Worlds have teamed up with the Erie Niagara Tobacco Free Coalition to present “I quit,” an anti-smoking awareness campaign all this week.
Click the audio player above to hear Joyce Kryszak’s full story now or use your podcasting software to download it to your computer or iPod.
Many [...]
