Smoking cessation can improve survival among patients with severe COPD
...t 3 years and 72 percent at 5 years. Patients who smoked during the study period had a risk of mortality that was almost three times that of patients who stopped smoking. In addition, greater smoking intensity was associated with decreased survival, and the risk of mortality increased by 20 percent for ea...Majority of cigarettes in the US smoked by nicotine-dependent or psychiatrically ill persons
...consume approximately 70 percent of all cigarettes smoked in the United States, according to an article in t...-dependent consumed 57.5 percent of all cigarettes smoked in the United States. Among respondents with nicotine dependence, the prevalence of any alcohol use ...Nicotine dependence & psychiatric disorders
...ric disorders consume 70 percent of all cigarettes smoked in the United States, according to results of a National Institutes of Health (NIH) study reported in the November issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry (Volume 61). Based on the 2001-2002 National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related C...Smoking affects same 'feel good' brain chemical system as heroin
...us opioid system when the study participants first smoked a special cigarette with almost no nicotine, and then smoked a regular cigarette. Before, during and after the scans, the participants rated how relaxed, alert, ...Hmong face high rates of some cancers
...cteria H. pylori and consumption of highly salted, smoked or pickled foods. "With access to Western medicine, including hepatitis B immunization, antibiotics for bacterial infections and Pap screening, the rates of the cancers that are now most prevalent in the Hmong should decrease within a generation," sa...Teenage smoking still 'worryingly high': Girls twice as likely as boys to puff away
...compared with 75 per cent at age 13-14 who had not smoked during the previous term, and as many as 83 per ce...ng by the age of 15-16 are being a girl and having smoked when they were younger. "For those who were non-smokers at age 13-14, pupils most likely to take up ...'Safe' levels of lead, cadmium
...D for current smokers compared to people who never smoked was 4.13. The odds were reduced to 3.38 after adjustment for blood lead and to 1.84 after adjustment for blood cadmium. This led Guallar to theorize that the cadmium contained in cigarette smoke may damage the lining of blood vessels and be a major...Male and female smokers have similar lung cancer risk
...y. After controlling for age, number of cigarettes smoked each day, age a person began smoking, and time since quitting, the researchers found no difference between men and women in overall lung cancer susceptibility. The researchers also reviewed six published prospective cohort studies that had examined ...Carbon monoxide from smoking helps keep arteries open following angioplasty
...restenosis. Researchers observed that patients who smoked 10 or more cigarettes a day had a reduced rate of restenosis at both intervals. Among the heavy smokers, the rate of re-narrowing was 16 percent at six months and 29 percent at 12 months following the procedure. In the non-smoking patients, restenosi...New research shows reasons for smoking vary
...-novice and experienced. Novice smokers (those who smoked fewer cigarettes over their lifetime) seemed to be...cipants were at least 18 years old and had to have smoked at least one cigarette in the past 14 days. They were: 82 percent white, 11 percent African American...Parent, guardian job loss may boost smoking among adolescent family members
...e 87% more likely to have tried smoking or to have smoked in the past 30 days than students whose families hadn't lost jobs. This was true even after controlling for age, gender, ethnicity, acculturation, socio-economic status, parents' education, grades in school, communication with parents, parental moni...Study finds bupropion may be effective smoking cessation aid for women
...he researchers recruited 314 women and 241 men who smoked at least 10 cigarettes per day. Participants were ...counseling alone. Women who received bupropion and smoked fewer than 20 cigarettes per day were twice as likely to remain abstinent than those receiving behav...Bupropion, counseling may help youth with ADHD stop smoking
...say that the number of cigarettes the participants smoked daily decreased significantly from an average of more than 18 at the start of the study to less than 1 when the study ended. Five participants, one of whom had ADHD, quit smoking by the fourth week of the study. The researchers also assessed levels o...Smoking increases papillomavirus risk in HIV-infected women
... Finally, both HIV-infected subjects and those who smoked were significantly more likely than their uninfected or nonsmoking counterparts to acquire persistent HPV infection (defined as occurring during the study and present at two consecutive visits). Noting that persistent HPV infections have been shown ...Are toddlers who can't sleep at higher risk of becoming teens who smoke, drink or do drugs?
...d been when they first got drunk, if they had ever smoked cigarettes and how often, and how many times they ...een drunk at least once. About one-tenth regularly smoked cigarettes, and 17 percent had used at least one kind of illicit drug. There was no connection b...Lung cancer in women is a 21st century epidemic
...of lung cancer. In addition, women who have never smoked are more likely to develop lung cancer than men who have never smoked. Mounting evidence suggests that these differences could be due, in part, to estrogen signaling. Genetic, metabolic and hormonal factors also play a role in the way women react ...Lung cancer now leading cause of cancer death in women
...g cancer present in young persons, those who never smoked and women of all ages. Patel said that this difference in prevalence between sexes suggests basic differences in lung cancer. "Mounting evidence suggests that these differences could be due, in part, to estrogen," Patel said. Research has found ...Article examines reasons contributing to epidemic of lung cancer in U.S. women
... adenocarcinoma of the lung. Women who have never smoked are more likely to develop lung cancer than men who have never smoked. Mounting evidence suggests that this could be due, in part, to estrogen signaling." The authors add that in the past, major studies for lung cancer prevention and early diagnosis...Vitamin C reduces level of C-reactive protein, finds UC Berkeley-led study
...ults from Berkeley and Oakland, Calif., who either smoked or were exposed to second-hand smoke. The researchers adjusted for body mass index and baseline CRP concentrations. People who had high levels of CRP to start with, likely due to existing illness, were excluded from the study. Participants were rando...Study finds lesbian and bisexual girls are at heightened risk for tobacco use
...t of lesbian and bisexual girls reported that they smoked weekly compared to only 6 percent of heterosexual girls in the study who reported weekly smoking. Lesbian and bisexual girls also were about 60 percent more likely than heterosexual girls to say they would be willing to use tobacco promotional merch...