Postpartum Help Needed To Keep Recent Mothers From Resuming Smoking Habit
..., there areknown risks during pregnancy. Pregnant smokers are more likely to have lowbirth weight babies and...even to 10 months,"McBride said. "Other groups of smokers who stay off cigarettes for 10 monthsare home free, but that's not true for pregnant women. ...Smoking and depression weaken immune system
...wise comparisons the researchers found: Depressed smokers had lower NK activity than depressed non-smokers. Control subject smokers and non-smokers had similar levels of NK activity. Depressed non-smokers and control subjects had s...Controversy Over The Effects Of Passive Smoking
... than nonsmokers, and studies suggest that passive smokers breathein about 1 per cent of the amount inhaled b...indingsignificant extra risk, to outright lying by smokers or ex-smokers, who tellresearchers they have never smoked. But it is the sheer size of the ...Researchers seek postmenopausal women smokers for hormone, heart disease study
CHAPEL HILL -- Postmenopausal women smokers from both rural and urbanareas are being sought fo...studies notconsidered definitive but which suggest smokers might benefit the most. For information about registering, call project nurse coordinator...Very low energy diets together with nicotine gum boosts smoking cessation rates
...rticipate in the diet. The team studied 287 female smokers aged between30 and 60 years who had quit smoking before, but had started again because of weight concerns. After 12 months 28 per cent of the diet group were still not smoking, compared to 16 per cent in the control group. However, of the non-smoke...New study finds a mouthful of reasons to consider hormone replacement therapy
...cal Center, College of Dentistry. "However, female smokers shouldnote that the study found that smoking had a greater impact on speeding theprogression of periodontal disease than estrogen deficiency." About 25 million of this country's older women suffer bone loss due toosteoporosis. Estrogen supplementatio...University of Pittsburgh study finds that simple test spots early signs of heart disease in women
...rcent for those with low LDLcand high HDLc. Among smokers with a high LDLc and a low HDLc, 86 percent had evidenceof coronary calcification compared to only 17 percent of women who werenonsmokers with a low LDLc and a high HDLc. This study was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health....It is easy for adolescents to purchase cigarettes illegally in North Carolina
...ed within the past 30 days and 39 percent of these smokers had purchasedtheir cigarettes from a store. "Only 14 percent of smokers who had purchased cigarettes had been askedfor proof of their age," said Robert H. DuRant, Ph.D., vi...Traditional values may curtail smoking among southern black women
...the early 1990s,Blacks in the Midwest were heavier smokers than Blacks in the four Deep Southstates of South ...kingrates, although Florida also had a low rate of smokers (18.2 percent). "The smaller percentage of Black smokers in Florida is probablyattributable ...Elderly less likely than other adults to have economic problems
...lyto be heavy drinkers or smokers than are single people.Also, married people can work as a team to meet household needs such as child care and household repairs, whilea single person may need to buy some of t......ing cessation treatments bedeveloped, because most smokers try to quit only once every three to fouryears." D...lation,rates are declining less in female smokers, smokers with depression and smokerswho are heavy drinkers. The five Yale studies will focus on theseoften-o...USC receives $12.8 million to study teen smoking
...h USC researchers to coordinate projects involving smokers in China. Smoking is the leading preventable cause of illness in the United States. One ofevery five deaths -- more than 400,000 lives lost each year -- is due todiseases linked to smoking, American Lung Association statistics indicate.Smoking has al...Federal institutes and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation create Tobacco Use Research Centers
...orothy K. Hatsukami, Ph.D. Theme: treating smokers who have been resistant to conventional methodsof intervention or who have not been previously targeted; University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison Principal Investigator: Michael C. Fiore, M.D., M.P.H. Theme:...Smokers have lower success rates with periodontal treatment
CHICAGO -- Not only are smokers morelikely to develop periodontal disease and have...e between the teeth andgums), nearly 43 percent of smokers in the study required further periodontaltreatment, while only about 11 percent of nonsmokers did. T...Over 400 heart attacks every year in young women smokers could be prevented
...was the risk of a heart attack. But even in light smokers -- up tofive cigarettes a day -- the risk more than doubled. For smokers of two packs ormore a day, the risk increased by a factor of almost 75. Other underlying conditions,...Few physicians counsel adolescents about smoking
Despite the fact that most smokers take up the habit as adolescents, few U.S. physici...e percentage of patients identifying themselves as smokers and the percentage of visits that included smoking-related counseling remained unchanged during the ...UCSF Psychiatry Department receives grant to study innovative drug and substance abuse treatments
...rking on a computer-based intervention program for smokers who are alsodepressed and seeking treatment for that disorder. The computer program is built around the "stagesof change" theory: pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action and maintenance. The programis designed to encourage people to th...Cigarette smoking among American teens
...-The proportion of teens who are current cigarette smokers continued to decline gradually in 1999, according ... over one-third of today's young people are active smokers by the time they leave high school. In fact, more than one in every six is an active smoker as earl...New quit strategy offers smokers more pleasure, less risk
...ity of Toronto have devised a new strategy to wean smokers from cigarettes. "This principal is quite differen...cotine remains in the bloodstream and the pleasure smokers get from a cigarette lasts longer. As a result, smokers may light up less frequently. Blocking the e......ntified a chemical in tobacco that may explain why smokers are statistically less vulnerable to Parkinson's d...tests are underway in which the blood platelets of smokers are examined - before and after they smoke - to see if the naphthoquinone or related tobacco-derived...