Pitt study offers new hope for people trying to quit smoking
...ople who are trying to quit smoking by wearing the nicotine patch are less likely to spiral into a total relap...apses, to try to find out more about why and how a nicotine patch works. Smokers in the study were using either a high-dose NicoDerm CQ nicotine patch (35 mg, ...Research team to examine impact of genetics and exposure to secondhand smoke
...icotine, their risk may increase even more because nicotine might stay in the body longer and do more damage, ...ted pressure. Exposure to the damaging effects of nicotine and other pathogens in smoke may also cause a vicious cycle in the body. "It likely causes damage t...Researchers discover link between expectancy, visual cues and the desire to smoke
..."this study also has an impact on the treatment of nicotine addiction, as our research sheds light on the differences in people who can and can't control their will to smoke. People who quit smoking can expect to be exposed to other smokers, or to situations in which they previously smoked cigarettes. These e...Newsbriefs from the journal Chest, April 2006
... treatment phase provided counseling, support, and nicotine medications for 3 months, with visits every 3 to 4... percent of participants reported continued use of nicotine medications at 3- and 6-months, respectively. Confirmed continuous abstinence rates were 47 percent,...Penn study shows smokers assume false sense of safety from ads for low nicotine Quest cigarettes
... make false inferences about the safety of new low nicotine Quest cigarettes. This research appears in the Ma...ed cigarette marketed as a way to gradually reduce nicotine exposure via smoking cigarettes that are lower in nicotine," said author Caryn Lerman, PhD, Associat...Researchers test new way to quit smoking
...staying smoke-free if they begin using replacement nicotine patches or gum in the weeks before they quit cigar...eir cigarettes and immediately replace them with a nicotine substitute, such as nicotine patches or chewing gum. But some recent small-scale studies have sugges...Controversial tobacco issues on agenda at University symposium
... local and international experts on issues such as nicotine addiction, harm reduction strategies, and limiting...ters for the introduction of alternative smokeless nicotine products such as SNUS (a Swedish tobacco product) are among the topics that will be vigorously debat...UCI researchers identify first compound to block progression of Alzheimer's disease
... this study. His work also determined that chronic nicotine exposure worsens some Alzheimer-related brain abnormalities, contradicting the common belief that nicotine can actually be used to treat the disease. This study was funded primarily by a grant from the Nati...New study evaluates impact of smoking cessation aids and mass media
...ng and seven conventional types of cessation help; nicotine replacement therapy (NRT), prescribed medications, professional help or advice, self-help materials, cessation programs, telephone quit line, or web-based cessation sites. The impact of a particular quitting aid is measured by multiplying the efficac...Former smoker-led intervention program helps women quit
Former smokers from the community, a nicotine patch and group support may be the best combinatio...on, she adds. Women in Barton Village received the nicotine patch, nurse-led behavioral treatment and support from community health workers former smokers fami...Risk takers may have lower rates of Parkinson's disease
...evious research indicates that higher caffeine and nicotine consumption may protect against Parkinson's disease. Patients with Parkinson's disease scored lower on sensation seeking/risk taking behaviour and higher on anxiety and depression than the healthy comparison group. They were also less likely to have ...UCI researcher receives MetLife award for Alzheimer's research
...ques and tangles. His work determined that chronic nicotine exposure worsens some Alzheimer-related brain abnormalities, contradicting the common belief that nicotine can actually be used to treat the disease. He also was principle investigator of a study that identi...Team discovers possible 'universal strategy' to combat addiction
...iences and Engineering Research Council, looked at nicotine and THC (the active ingredient in marijuana). However, Zhang says the results could also hold true for other drugs such as cocaine, heroin, and even methamphetamine. Zhang's U of S research team is part of the Neural Systems and Plasticity Research G...Tobacco industry developed product strategy to conceal toxicity of cigarettes
... developed cigarettes which produced low-yields of nicotine and tar under standard testing protocols while delivering much greater amounts of nicotine and tar to smokers, according to a Public Health article published online today (Wednesday February ...Unplanned quit attempts more likely to succeed
...he authors. Indeed, use of behavioural support and nicotine replacement therapy are known to improve the chanc...g, and immediate availability of treatment such as nicotine patches and counselling to support those attempts....Toward the future of cancer prevention
...e and, if they do, determine how best to break the nicotine addiction that can result," Gritz says. The Depart...sical response in the brain to drugs used to treat nicotine dependence; and An investigation of why some cancer patients continue to smoke, and how they can be...Coffee jump-starts short-term memory
...period of no caffeine and a four-hour period of no nicotine exposure. Administration of 100 milligrams (mg) of caffeine (approximately the amount in two cups of coffee) as well as placebo was randomized across volunteers so that each of them underwent a caffeine and placebo scan. In the "caffeine condition," ...U of MN study shows nicotine vaccine has promise for helping smokers quit
A University of Minnesota study indicates that the nicotine vaccine NicVax, which is now being tested in human... by producing antibodies that specifically bind to nicotine and thereby prevent much of the nicotine from entering the brain," Hatsukami said. "This process pot...A wake-up call: Smoking after cancer diagnosis affects care and research
...wing number of resources, such as several forms of nicotine replacement, anti-depressant drugs and behavioral intervention," he says. "It might only require brief advice from the physician and cessation programs that can be administered by hospital-based nurses or other health-care workers." In t...Complete smoking ban leads to marked rise in smoking cessation efforts
...to a national Quitline for smokers, and demand for nicotine replacement treatment vouchers has increased, following a total ban on smoking in indoor public places in New Zealand, according to a letter in this week's BMJ. Nick Wilson, a senior lecturer in public health in New Zealand, writes that the complete ...