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Former smokers from the community, a nicotine patch and group support may be the best combination for helping women in public housing stop smoking, researchers have found.
Breathing other people's smoke raises the risk of developing glucose intolerance.
Those smokers who possessed less sensitivity to bitter taste were more likely to rate taste as a strong reason for smoking.
Elderly women are more likely to quit smoking than elderly men, while results are just the opposite for studies among younger populations.
The tobacco industry coordinated cross industry campaigns to delay and weaken federal and international regulations on pesticide use.
Alcoholics who smoke appear to lose more brain mass than alcoholics who don't smoke.
Review of research on the link between teenagers viewing on screen smoking and then taking up smoking themselves finds that one leads to the other.
Up to half of smokers with cancer continue to smoke or relapse. Treatment for this addiction has largely been focused on healthy smokers and is critically dependent on smoker motivation.
Older women appear to quit smoking and stay off cigarettes in higher numbers than men in their age group.
Smokers who receive telephone care and counseling for smoking cessation have higher rates of stopping smoking than those who receive routine care by health care providers.
Considering the young average age at smoking initiation, this study provides further justification for smoking prevention efforts aimed at young women.
The percentage of U.S. adults who smoke cigarettes continues to decline and more adults have successfully quit smoking than remain current smokers.
Study suggests that the time to help tobacco users quit is the moment they are diagnosed with cancer.
A year after Armenia adopted a law on smoking restriction Armenian health activists raise the problem of the law being effective if there is no fine for breaking it?
Such offers may be a strategy to subsidize the cost of cigarettes in price sensitive populations who might otherwise reduce their smoking or quit.
It does matter how early you quit smoking, but it matters even more how much you were smoking at that time.
This discovery opens new horizons for stop smoking treatments.
Smokers trying to quit the habit may double their success rate by wearing a nicotine patch two weeks before their actual quit date.
The reward inducing and addiction driving stimulus of nicotine should be minimized and abstinence from smoking should be more easily achieved and maintained.
The Family Ties smoking cessation program provides stress management and coping skills to family members of lung cancer patients with the goal of helping them quit the habit of smoking.
People who see news stories and advertisements about the dangers of secondhand smoke are more likely to feel that it is harmful.
For the first time government will legislate to ban smoking in the vast majority of public places and workplaces in UK.
Adverse respiratory outcomes caused by second hand smoke exposure include increased occurrence and severity of respiratory symptoms.
Quitting smoking now is the best way to prevent COPD.
Cigarette smoking is associated with the clinical severity of the skin disease psoriasis, and both smoking and obesity are more prevalent among psoriasis patients.
Smoking not more common in movies than US population. Smoking was especially prevalent in R rated and independent movies.
Cigarette smoking may lead to the development of pulmonary fibrosis in individuals who are genetically prone to the problem.
Adolescents who see smoking depicted in movies are more likely to try smoking.
Hispanic and African American smokers are less likely to try nicotine replacement therapies when they want to quit smoking.
Quitting smoking can have health benefits for people, no matter what age they are when they stop smoking.
