Phone counseling helps smokers quit
...ne-based counseling was more successful in helping smokers quit than individualized mailings, a new study has...rch, of which Swan is editor in chief. All 1,524 smokers were prescribed bupropion SR, an antidepressant medication previously proven to help smokers quit. T...Novel technique may help detect certain head and neck cancers
...re commonly in patients with HNSCC than in healthy smokers or control patients. Using these protein patterns...between patients with HNSCC and normal and healthy smokers with high accuracy (80 percent to 92 percent). "We propose that this technique may allow for t...Exposure to carcinogens not proportionally decreased by reduction in smoking
...d's lung cancer cases, but it is not known whether smokers who reduce the number of cigarettes smoked per day...s of a specific tobacco carcinogen in the urine of smokers who were part of a structured smoking reduction program. The carcinogen, NNK, along with polycyclic ...Award-winning research affirms use of hypnosis in eliminating pain
...psychosocial differences between teenagers who are smokers or non-smokers. For further information, go to www.psyc.vt.edu/faculty/faculty.asp?f=hjc ....High cholesterol predicts lower mortality in dialysis patients but is not protective
...alysis patients and other sick populations such as smokers and the elderly. This opposite association from the expected higher mortality at higher cholesterol has led some physicians to avoid treating high cholesterol in dialysis patients. However, among patients without inflammation or malnutrition, higher ...Chronic cough significantly impacts life quality in women
...ention for chronic cough and a control group of 31 smokers (22 women and 9 men) who were observed to be coughing but were not complaining of cough. The CQLQ measures quality of life in patients with chronic cough in regards to 28 adverse complaints that are grouped into six subscales: physical complaints; ...Study uncovers how stress and hormones lead to smoking relapse
...now whether stressful events make it difficult for smokers to quit and increase their risk for relapse. And i...l mechanisms are involved?" This study examined 72 smokers (38 men and 34 women), all of whom had a long smoking history but were otherwise healthy. Their leve...Women who were sexually abused as children more likely to smoke
...sed as children are much more likely to be current smokers than women who weren't abused as children. That's ... children were 3.8 times more likely to be current smokers than women who didn't report abuse. Childhood sexual abuse was defined as sexual fondling, attempted...Minors able to buy nicotine replacement therapy products
...ealth practitioners recommending NRT to adolescent smokers attempting to quit should consider potential barriers to youth access."...Activism prompts teen smokers to cut back on cigarettes, Stanford study finds
... Scare tactics and lectures don't persuade teenage smokers to change their habits, but engaging them as anti-...s (never or former smokers), 40 percent were light smokers (less than a pack a week) and 25 percent were regular smokers (a pack or more a week). Students brea...Data shows new drug, rimonabant, helps smokers quit while limiting post cessation weight gain
...inked to respiratory diseases and lung cancer, but smokers are also at 70% greater risk for cardiovascular di...ites in the United States. The study enrolled 787 smokers who were motivated to quit, but had previously failed to do so. On average, patients enrolled in th...Britain not doing enough to stop people from smoking claim public health experts
...alia passed the point where ex-smokers outnumbered smokers in 1989, Britain has still not passed this importa...ing the full range of effective strategies to help smokers give up and dissuade young people from taking up the habit. That price is the death of one Briton fr...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, March 16, 2004
...m of Nicotine Replacement Therapy A study of 299 smokers found that after six months, those who used a nico...those using the patch) (Article, p. 426). However, smokers who were highly dependent on nicotine, obese, and nonwhite achieved higher abstinence rates with the...Smoking linked to accelerated cognitive decline in the elderly
...n average of five times higher per year in current smokers than those who never smoked. Researchers in severa...eclined .03 points per year. The score for current smokers (22 percent) declined .16 points per year, about five times more. Former smokers (37 percent) droppe...... help researchers understand more about why female smokers are more susceptible to lung cancer than male smokers. "The overexpression of CYP1B1 poses an interesting question about gender differences in the development of lung cancer," said Meireles. "We hadn't intended to look at gender differences in ...New study adds weight to link between passive smoking and death
Adults who have never smoked and who live with smokers have a 15% higher risk of death than those living ...onitored for three years after the censuses. Never smokers living in households with one or more current smokers were regarded as being exposed to secondhand s...Sitting in nonsmoking sections a powerful tactic for preventing teen smoking
...ts who smoke were 13 percent less likely to become smokers by 12th grade if their parents reported routinely asking to sit in designated smoke-free areas of public establishments compared to adolescent children whose smoking parents chose to sit in smoking sections, Andersen reported. Specifically, when pare...Vitamin C reduces level of C-reactive protein, finds UC Berkeley-led study
...persistent low levels of CRP, has been found among smokers and Type 2 diabetics, as well as among overweight or obese persons. They say that scientists have only recently begun to understand such chronic inflammation as an important factor in disease. "Several large studies have suggested that CRP may be a ...News briefs from the journal CHEST, April 2004
...followed by passive smokers. Furthermore, passive smokers with in utero exposure to ETS had significantly lower lung function scores than passive smokers whose mothers quit smoking while pregnant. These findings indicate that both current and in utero e...Office spirometry significantly improves early detection of COPD
... "known" COPD patients. The percentage of current smokers in the newly diagnosed group (48 percent) exceeded the number of smokers in the group with normal lung function (28 percent). "COPD is the fourth leading cause of death in t...