Smoking / Quit Smoking News From Medical News Today » No Time For Complacency On Smoking, Warns Confederation Chair
The chair of the NHS Confederation, Bryan Stoten, has used National No-Smoking Day to warn against any complacency in the efforts to reduce smoking. Mr Stoten also said that, despite the financial pressures currently affecting public services, it was crucial for the NHS and society did not forget about the cost and harm of smoking... [Link]
Smoking / Quit Smoking News From Medical News Today » Quit Smoking With The Help Of Your Mobile, UK
A new iPhone app that helps people to stop smoking was launched yesterday by Public Health Minister Gillian Merron. To coincide with 'No Smoking Day' on the 10 March, the Department of Health has released the first official NHS 'Quit Smoking' app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Available from iTunes, http://www.smokefree.nhs... [Link]
Smoking / Quit Smoking News From Medical News Today » Years Of Smoking Associated With Lower Parkinson's Risk, Not Number Of Cigarettes Per Day
Researchers have new insight into the relationship between Parkinson's disease and smoking. Several studies have shown that smokers have a lower risk of developing Parkinson's disease... [Link]
Smoking / Quit Smoking News From Medical News Today » Visit Your Pharmacy This No Smoking Day
Helping a man to stop smoking after 43 years and supporting a woman to quit cigarettes following 15 previous relapses are just two examples where a local pharmacy made the difference of a life time... [Link]
Smoking / Quit Smoking News From Medical News Today » Program Could Help Teens Control Asthma
An asthma program specifically tailored to teens could help those in rural areas manage their disease and avoid potentially fatal complications, Medical College of Georgia researchers say. Black males have a death rate from asthma that is six times greater than their white counterparts, and Dr... [Link]
Smoking / Quit Smoking News From Medical News Today » The Speed At Which Nicotine Peaks In The Brain
Nicotine takes much longer than previously thought to reach peak levels in the brains of cigarette smokers, according to new research conducted at Duke University Medical Center. Traditionally, scientists thought nicotine inhaled in a puff of cigarette smoke took a mere seven seconds to be taken up by the brain, and that each puff produced a spike of nicotine... [Link]
Smoking / Quit Smoking News From Medical News Today » New Report Finds Major Benefits To The Health Of The Nation From Increasing Tobacco Taxes, UK
Following an extensive economic evaluation of the benefits of increasing tobacco prices on the health of the nation, ASH has published its report The Effects of Increasing Tobacco Taxation... [Link]
Smoking / Quit Smoking News From Medical News Today » News From The March Issue Of Chest
PREGNANT SMOKERS WITH ASTHMA HAVE INCREASED HEALTH RISKS Pregnant women with asthma who smoke have an increased risk for asthma symptoms and fetal growth abnormalities. Researchers from the Medical University of South Carolina observed 2,210 pregnant women with asthma to determine the effect of active and passive household smoking on asthma severity and obstetric/neonatal outcomes... [Link]
Smoking / Quit Smoking News From Medical News Today » What Is Nicotine Dependence? What Are The Dangers Of Smoking?
Tobacco smoking is a practice in which tobacco is burned and the smoke inhaled or tasted. Smoking is primarily practiced as a route of administration for nicotine through the lungs; it is a way of getting nicotine into your system rapidly. The most popular current method of smoking is through cigarettes, mainly industrially manufactured ones... [Link]
Smoking / Quit Smoking News From Medical News Today » Three Harvard School Of Public Health Alumni Named To New FDA Tobacco Advisory Committee
The recently formed Food and Drug Administration (FDA)'s Center for Tobacco Products has just created a new Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee to review and evaluate safety, dependence, and health issues relating to tobacco products and provide appropriate advice, information, and recommendations to the Commissioner of Food and Drugs... [Link]
Smoking / Quit Smoking News From Medical News Today » Risk Of Hardened Arteries Among 13-Year-olds Increased By Secondhand Smoke
Frequent exposure to environmental tobacco smoke among 13-year-olds is associated with an increased risk of future blood vessel hardening and greater risks of other heart disease factors, according to new research published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, a journal of the American Heart Association... [Link]
Smoking / Quit Smoking News From Medical News Today » Five Tips To Help A Stressed-Out President Or Anyone Else Quit Smoking
President Barack Obama's recent physical examination revealed that he is in generally good health and that he is still trying to quit smoking. His doctor's advice: keep up his "smoking cessation efforts"; in other words, he should keep trying to kick the habit... [Link]
Smoking / Quit Smoking News From Medical News Today » Cigarette Ads Fuel Teens' Desire To Start Smoking
The more that teens see cigarette ads, the greater their risk of taking a puff. A new study shows that the particular content of tobacco marketing resonates with youth and that the vivid imagery in tobacco advertising captures their interest, although teens typically are more resistant to the promotional seduction of other products... [Link]
Smoking / Quit Smoking News From Medical News Today » Five Tips To Help A Stressed-Out President - Or Anyone Else - Quit Smoking
President Barack Obama's recent physical examination revealed that he is in generally good health - and that he is still trying to quit smoking. His doctor's advice: keep up his "smoking cessation efforts"; in other words, he should keep trying to kick the habit... [Link]
Smoking / Quit Smoking News From Medical News Today » Unique Program Helps New Moms Cut Down On Babies' Exposure To Second-Hand Smoke
In underserved areas like North Philadelphia, existing research shows a nearly 10 percent higher smoking rate than in the general population, with a lower quit rate to boot. The consequences of this public health problem are magnified for new mothers that smoke, as they also expose their babies to the ill effects of second-hand smoke... [Link]
Smoking / Quit Smoking News From Medical News Today » FDA Announces Meeting Information And Voting Membership Of The Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced membership and meeting information for the Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee (TPSAC). The Committee, required through the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (Tobacco Control Act), will provide advice, information, and recommendations to FDA on a wide range of tobacco-related issues... [Link]
Smoking / Quit Smoking News From Medical News Today » WHO Director-General Calls For Greater Efforts To Reduce Tobacco Use
In a speech on Friday marking the fifth anniversary of an international tobacco control treaty, WHO Director-General Margaret Chan called for government officials worldwide to increase efforts to protect their population from the harmful effects of tobacco, Reuters reports... [Link]
Smoking / Quit Smoking News From Medical News Today » Promising New Smoking Cessation Therapy
A novel technology for delivering nicotine to the lungs may soon give smokers a new way to kick the habit. When compared to the nicotine vapor delivery system used in the Nicotrol/Nicorette inhaler, the new technology proved more effective at delivering nicotine to the blood stream... [Link]
Smoking / Quit Smoking News From Medical News Today » In People With Certain Genes Smoking Significantly Increases Risk Of Aneurysm
For people who carry common gene variants, cigarette smoking greatly increases the risk that a blood vessel in the brain will weaken and balloon out - called an aneurysm - which could be life-threatening if it ruptures, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2010... [Link]
Smoking / Quit Smoking News From Medical News Today » New Study Finds Similar Advertising Strategies Used By Indoor Tanning And Tobacco Industries
While the proven negative health consequences of smoking and tanning are undeniable, tobacco and indoor tanning advertisers would like consumers to think otherwise. In fact, a new study comparing the tactics used in advertising tobacco and indoor tanning products found several similarities in how these two industries market unhealthy products... [Link]
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