Clinicians Now Have Better Tools To Help Smokers Quit
An updated clinical practice guideline released by the US Public Health Service has identified new counseling and medication treatments that are effective for helping people quit smoking.
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Quit Line expands services for smoking pregnant women
Quitting smoking is one of the best things a woman can do to protect her own health and the health of her baby. More than 8,700 babies are born each year in Washington to smoking mothers.
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Quit Smoking And Your Death Risk Is Reduced
Many people have heard about the benefits of health when they quit smoking. While millions of people die annually because of smoking, here are some facts from JAMA study on how your health improves when you stop smoking.
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When Doctors Tell Patients To Quit Smoking, They Listen
Doctors who take a few minutes to talk with patients about their smoking - maybe passing along a leaflet or a sample of nicotine gum - make a difference when it comes to helping them quit successfully.
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Five Myths About Quitting Smoking
Quitting smoking can be hard, but people's rationales for continuing to smoke are often rooted in pure myth.
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Perrigo FDA Approved To Market Nicotine Gum
The Perrigo Company has received approval from FDA to market over-the-counter Nicotine Polacrilex Gum USP, 2 mg and 4 mg (Orange, Coated).
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Discovery May Explain Smoking-Pancreatic Cancer Link
If lung cancer and heart disease aren't bad enough, cigarette smokers are also at higher risk for developing, among other things, pancreatic cancer.
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Better-Educated Smokers More Likely To Try Quitting In Response To Ads
Better-educated smokers are more likely to respond to TV ads that promote quitting smoking, while the effect of secondhand smoke messages is similar across educational levels.
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Physically Active Smokers More Likely To Kick The Habit
Physically active smokers might have greater success quitting smoking than those who are more sedentary.
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Single Variant In Genome Sequence Confers Nicotine Dependence
Cigarette smoking is a major public health problem that contributes to millions of deaths around the world each year.
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How A Smoker To Become An EX
Most smokers in America - 70 percent - want to quit, but in 2000, only about five percent were successful in quitting long-term.
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Smokers Treated For Brain Aneurysm With Coils At Higher Risk Of Recurrence
Cigarette smokers who were treated for cerebral aneurysms with coil embolization are at greater risk of developing another aneurysm.
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E-cards Encourage Tobacco Users In Quitting
WeDidItStory.com has unveiled a new set of e-cards for users to send to their loved ones as encouragement in quitting tobacco.
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Tips To Make Quitting Smoking Easier
A total of 334 Sarnia-Lambton smokers are among the more than 26,000 Ontarians who have accepted the challenge and are Driven to Quit smoking.
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Florida Aims To Make Salvia Divinorum Illegal
Possession of Salvia Divinorum may be soon be an act of felony in Florida and in other several states as the legislators in Florida introduce a bill to make it illegal to possess Salvia Divinorum herb.
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Smoking Parents Result Unhealthy Children
Scientists want to remind parents about the threat of secondhand smoke.
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Smokers May Quit More If Told Their Lung Age
Effect on smoking quit rate of telling patients their lung age: the Step2quit randomised controlled trial shows that telling smokers their lung age significantly improves the likelihood of them quitting.
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Smoking Delays Bone Healing
A toxic pollutant spread by oil spills, forest fires and car exhaust is also present in cigarette smoke, and may represent a second way in which smoking delays bone healing.
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Former Smokers Still At Risk For COPD
A survey of 2,153 U.S. adults reveals that most are unaware that former smokers are still at risk for one of the country's most common lung diseases - chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or COPD.
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Smoking May Kill Millions In India
About one million smokers may die annually in 2010s in India.
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Protecting Children From Second-Hand Smoke
About 700 million children regularly breathe air polluted by tobacco smoke.
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Why do women smoke cigarettes
Research explains reasons for the increase in the use of cigarettes among women in the last 50 years.
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Magazine Ads For Smokeless Tobacco Reach Many Adolescents
Young people who read some of the most popular magazines on newsstands see a great deal of advertising from smokeless tobacco companies.
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Elderly more likely to deny smoking when asked
More elderly adults are smoking cigarettes and not reporting their nicotine habits to doctors and others
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Doctors: Don't Be Silent About Smoking
New York State DoH unveiled ad campaign urging health care providers to make quitting a priority for their patients who smoke.
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Prevalence Of Smoking In Georgia Down
The prevalence of smoking in Georgia decreased by 10 percent in 2006.
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Tobacco Control Programs Cut Adult Smoking Rates
Greater investments in state tobacco control programs are independently and significantly associated with larger and more rapid declines in adult smoking prevalence.
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FDA Expands Access To OTC Nicotine Medications
New York DoH takes leadership role in petitioning FDA to allow over-the-counter sales of nicotine replacement therapies in all retail locations where cigarettes are sold.
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Well-Funded Tobacco Control Programs Can Reduce Number Of Smokers
Study provides powerful evidence of the direct relationship between increased funding for state tobacco prevention and cessation programs and declines in adult smoking.
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Helping Businesses Go Smoke-Free
DHMH has a tool kit on its Web site and a Help Line to help business owners prepare their establishments to go smoke-free.
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Smoking Has Massive Toll On World's Children
Survey finds troubling rates of tobacco use, and even higher rates of exposure to secondhand smoke, among children around the world.
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Give Up Smoking - Live It Up
Don't let another year go up in smoke; give up cigarettes and live a healthier, happier life.
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Manchester Campaign To Help Smokers To Get Off Cigarettes
This New Year, it is anticipated that 15,992 smokers across Manchester will try to stop smoking.
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Hardcore Smokers Most Likely To Turn To Treatment
Smokers who seek out treatment to give up the habit are less successful at quitting than smokers who try to snuff the habit without help.
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Make Your Car Smoke-Free
County of Lambton Community Health Department wants all drivers and all passengers who smoke to keep the vehicle smoke-free by taking it outside and away from children.
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Support To Smokers Who Want To Quit
Quitting smoking is a popular New Year's resolution, and the Tennessee Department of Health can increase your odds of keeping it.
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Study Identifies 'Brain Signature' For Cigarette Craving
Cigarette cravings in smokers who are deprived of nicotine are linked with increased activation in specific regions of the brain.
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Protecting Kids From Secondhand Smoke In Cars
Heath units from across southwestern Ontario are calling on Ontario's motorists to keep their vehicles smoke-free this winter.
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Stub It Out For 2008
More smokers in Wales than ever before using cessation services.
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Smokers Urged To Kick The Habit In 2008
CDHA is calling on smokers to resolve to quit in 2008 by taking a simple first step: calling the California Smokers' Helpline
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