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What Will Help You Stop Smoking?
Is it drugs, or nicotine patches, or maybe gum? Quitting smoking is by no means painless. However an expanding variety of smoking cessation products help to make it a lot easier for smokers to escape their craving for nicotine. Analysis indicates that drug and nicotine substitution treatments will double and many times actually triple the [...]
Mental illness, a reason to quit smoking
YORK, England, – A British researcher says smoking cessation programs need to include smokers with severe mental illness. Simon Gilbody of the University of York & Hull York Medical School in England says those with severe mental illness need to be offered these programs. “Despite huge expansion in smoking cessation services in recent years, people [...]
Cash bonus for quitting cigarettes
THE cost of quitting cigarettes could fall by as much as $112 a month, with Government considering a subsidy for nicotine patches to help the nation’s three million smokers. The patches currently cost smokers trying to quit up to $118 a month. The subsidy would cut the price to $33.40 for general consumers and just [...]
Prevent and Reduce Tobacco Use
Smoking harms nearly every organ of the body, causing many diseases and affecting the health of smokers in general. Quitting smoking has both immediate and long-term benefits for you and your loved ones. Despite progress in reducing tobacco use, more than 20% of Americans still smoke and smoking rates that have been falling for decades [...]
Leave Cigarette Off For The Sake Of Excellent Sex
There is no secret that cigarette is an integral part of any smoker’s life. Wherever he won’t be, whatever he won’t do, cigarette is always with him. A particular pleasure it gives after making love. Every smoker will confirm this fact at a word. Having interrogated a great number of smokers, we found out that [...]
Chloe Madeley quit cigarettes on TV
Chloe Madeley has signed up to a new TV show to help her quit smoking. The daughter of former chat show hosts Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan joins Birds Of A Feather star Linda Robson, TV chef John Burton Race, Love Island’s Paul Danan and TV psychic Derek Acorah in the Five series. The 22-year-old, [...]
What about a New Year’s resolution to quit using tobacco?
Many people are making resolutions to improve their lives during the upcoming year. One of the most important changes people can make to improve their health is quitting tobacco use. The Clean Air Cowley County Coalition is encouraging tobacco users to make a New Year’s resolution to quit and to call the Kansas Tobacco Quitline [...]
FGH Wellness center offers tobacco free help
HATTIESBURG, MS – For tobacco users tobacco use statistics can be scary, but for many, stopping smoking is too hard. The Forrest General Wellness center is one of 27 sites across the state offering a free tobacco cessation program. “Our goal is to make tobacco treatment accessible to any Mississippian who might want to use [...]
Anti-Smoking Campaign Employs New Tool: Social Marketing
“Beautiful, like stylish beautiful clothes, you know, the jewelry, things that you want that, you want that dress, you want those clothes, you want that hair — why not want the cigarette too? You know, it just tops it off. It’s elegant now,” she says. Like many businesses, tobacco companies create ad campaigns for a [...]
Federal Stimulus Grant Supports Crucial Study of Anti-Nicotine Vaccine
Efforts to develop a vaccine capable of preventing tobacco addiction got a $10-million shot in the arm in the form of an American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grant. The award to Nabi Biopharmaceuticals of Rockville, Md., was funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse ( NIDA ), part of the National Institutes of Health. [...]
Smoking’s Damage Swift, Irreversible
Cigarette smoking starts inflicting “very significant” damage on the arteries with the very first puffs taken by otherwise healthy young smokers, new research shows. The damage worsens as time passes and is impossible to reverse, says researcher Stella Daskalopoulou, MD, of the McGill University Health Centre. The study found that smoking just one cigarette increases [...]
Free tobacco-quitting class starts Tuesday
The Clinton County Health Department will offer another set of free tobacco cessation classes to all Clinton County residents. The classes are for individuals ages 18 and older who would like to quit using any type of tobacco product: cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco, snuff, chew and so on. Classes will begin 6:30 p.m. next Tuesday, [...]
Local tobacco prevention program funding cut
ROCK COUNTY — A local anti-tobacco youth group is looking for other sources of funding for their prevention efforts. Rock County “Youth2Youth” Director, Debbie Fischer, says the state is taking money from all kinds of funds to help fill budget holes. The state’s tobacco quit line budget is being slashed by 2/3, from $3.7 million [...]
Ad Campaign Urges Schools to Enforce Tobacco-Free Policies
The New York State School Policy Partnership today unveiled its “We’re Watching” ad campaign promoting strong enforcement of comprehensive tobacco-free policies by schools and school districts throughout New York State. The multimedia ad campaign specifically calls upon principals, assistant principals and superintendents to “send the right message” to students, many of whom report seeing smoking [...]
