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New hope on the Horizon for People Wishing to Quit Smoking

...will be beneficial and safe for people who wish to quit smoking. Alan I. Leshner, M.D., director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), says, "This research opens up an exciting new avenue of treatment that can help smokers substantially reduce their exposure to tobacco smoke while they overcome ...

Kick Smoking with Nicotine Drink

...enter who has headed the study, said. Attempts to quit smoking have always increased every time a new product is available to help addicts kick the habit. In 1998, the nicotine patch accounted for 49 percent of the drug-assisted attempts to quit, nicotine gum 28 percent and Zyban - a prescription drug -...

A boost to quit smoking

... dramatic improvements were seen when the subjects quit smoking altogether. Thus this is an encouraging ...t straight away. Hence this can motivate people to quit smoking....

Emotional trigger to smoke

...kers, and hostile personalities, find it harder to quit than easy-going people. Researchers believe that anger and stress-management would be useful components of smoking cessation programmes....

Quitting smoking stops lung decline

...roups:// those who had never smoked, those who had quit permanently, those who had quit intermittently, and those who had never quit. To be considered intermittent quitters, smokers had ...

Prescription Drug - Helps People Stop Smoking

...which is otherwise a hurdle when a smoker tries to quit smoking. A study of more than 600 smokers found that use of an antidepressant drug called buproprion was a significant aid in helping subjects stop smoking. The study also found that the drug lessened the problem of weight gain among some study part...

Cigerettes unsafe during pregnancy

...vices emphasised that the job of getting people to quit was "difficult", pointing out that only 8 per cent more women gave up as a result of the quit programs than would have given up anyway.She said it was therefore important that as many women as p...

Fish for the lungs

...cer. But experts stress that it is still better to quit smoking. A recent study from the Imperial Cancer Research Fund reveals that four food products - tomato sauce, carrots, multi-vitamin pills, and fish oil supplements - were associated with a significantly lower risk of lung cancer in smokers. High ...

Stop smoking and reduce weight

...as to help them prevent any weight gain after they quit smoking. This study, as well as other research, in... weight gain itself, is what will help these women quit smoking.// The study, by a research team led by Dr. Kenneth A. Perkins and Dr. Marsha Marcus, is p...

Smoking Delays Pregnancy

...conceive than non-smokers. // However, women who quit smoking a year before attempting to conceive were likely to get pregnant within a similar time period as non-smokers. The growing body of evidence that continuing to smoke while attempting to become pregnant may increase time to conception suggests t...

Quit coffee and help your heart

...udy from Brazil has found that coffee drinkers who quit drinking caffeinated filtered coffee cut their blood levels of cholesterol and the protein homocysteine.High levels of both substances are known risk factors for heart disease. Some of the compounds, called terpenoids, are known to increase cholester...

GlaxoSmithKline To Cultivate Non-Smoking Environment

...mbai. Glaxo has also set up a helpline in order to quit smoking. Glaxo had targeted 50,000 patients for its first year with Zyban. It has already crossed the target of 10,000 patients. It had also sponsored the academic grant for the global initiative for obstructive lung disease in order to promote educa...

Why skin sags

...e to smoke. The best beauty treatment by far is to quit smoking....

Inspiring positive life changes

... increased by smoking it does encourage people to quit for fear they may be harming themselves. Other factors that are useful to know are whether you have high cholesterol or a genetic susceptibility to cancer. These were also found to lead to positive changes in behaviour. However, the researchers poi...

Ulcer Surgery connected to danger of Pancreatic Cancer

...tients who undergo ulcer surgery may smoke and not quit following surgery. Consequently, "it is important to quit smoking in the first place," Offerhause said. Offerhause added that patients who have previously un...

A new method to help smokers quit

...s said to be twice as effective in helping smokers quit as a placebo. In the study, Shiffman and colleagu... for smoking. Physicians should counsel smokers to quit and suggest the nicotine lozenge as an option for effective treatment. The nicotine lozenge provides...

Niacin Safe for Diabetics

...ause of poor blood sugar control, and another four quit due to flushing....

A new herbal therapy to quit smoking

Smokers trying to quit now have one more way out of their nicotine addict...ons of hypnotherapy will not only help the subject quit smoking completely, but also help him become a more pleasing and positive person. The money that a s...

Accomplishment of nicotine replacement therapy

...essible and more people will use it, and more will quit smoking. Researchers at the University of Califo...und an increase in the number of smokers trying to quit - from 38 per cent of smokers in 1992 to 60 per cent in 1999. Use of NRT increased three fold over t...

Voice has to be looked after with care

...er talks), so if you value your voice, you need to quit tobacco....

A boon for smokers to quit

...son's disease can go a long way in helping smokers quit the dreadful habit.//The drug produces a similar kind of pleasure which is offered by nicotine in the cigar. It has also been found out that stimulation or blockage of a chemical called DOPAMINE can have a significant alteration in a smoker's behav...

Quit smoking after cancer diagnosis

...ion therapy was compared to just telling people to quit smoking. In motivation therapy, the patient got co...e study showed how some people were more likely to quit successfully than others. Those whose cancer was smoking-related - such as lung, head and neck, or b...

Quitting the smoking habit

...s observed that antidepressants used to aid people quit smoking are more effective when combined with a ps... add, is neither approach appears// to help people quit and stay quit over the long-term. Researchers from the University of California, noted better short...

Help Quit Smoking

...es indicate that only two out of every ten smokers quit successfully and the the younger you start the mor...d smokes and what the child requires to do to help quit smoking. The program provides parents with newsletters on steps to help quit smoking. It provides a...

New AIDS vaccine may be in the offing

...d new type of vaccine which may one day let people quit their AIDS drugs. The study which was carried// out on monkeys showed promising results, and if confirmed and adapted in humans may signal a major new therapeutic approach to HIV. The researchers reported that the new vaccine uses a type of cell, co...

Women who quit smoking during pregnancy tend to relapse

... until 1999 found that the percentage of women who quit smoking rose from 37% to 46% during pregnancy. How...rth, women with more education were more likely to quit and those with only a high school education had the lowest relapse rate. Women on Medicaid were foun...

Drinking milk: Good or bad?

...eart disease would do better to get more exercise, quit smoking and cut down saturated fats in their diet than give up milk!...

Antiseizure Drug in help for Alcoholics

...y indicated an epilepsy drug would help alcoholics quit drinking. Texas Health Center researchers have fou...coholics who took Topiramate, an anti-seizure drug quit or cut back drinking sharply. In comparison with the placebo treatment, those given Topiramate were ...

Pfizer unveils anti-smoking drug

... Inc. unveiled an experimental drug to help people quit smoking //that could become the drugmaker's next b...is oral medicine, called Varenicline, were able to quit smoking after only seven weeks. In the same trial, only 16 percent of people receiving sugar pills...

Valium hits 40 years old, anxiety-free

...rn streak of chemist Leo Sternbach, who refused to quit after his boss at Hoffmann-La Roche ended a project to develop a tranquilizer to compete with a rival company's drug. Sternbach tested one last version and in just a day, he got the results: The compound made animals relaxed and limp.// Sternbach ha...

It's Never Too Late to Stop Smoking,Study Finds

...ed the health of current smokers to ex-smokers who quit less than two years before, ex-smokers who quit more than two years before, and never-smokers. The researchers weren't surprised to find that curr...

Smoking and Breast Cancer - A Deadly Combination

...ice as likely to die than non-smokers or those who quit smoking.// Researchers studied more than 1,000 non-smokers and more than 850 smokers who underwent therapy for breast cancer between 1970 and 2002. The study was the first of its kind to examine the effect of long-term smoking on breast cancer patie...

Reducing Number Of Cigarettes Not Enough

...century will happen when the number of smokers who quit significantly increase....

A Solution To Quit Smoking Without Gaining Weight

... 20 milligrams of the drug were twice as likely to quit smoking than those on placebo. Nearly 40 percent of this group quit smoking for a prolonged period, while only about 20 percent on placebo experienced the same success....

The Use Of Antioxidants To Diminish Effects of Alcohol During Pregnancy Questioned

...tion can’t control their drinking and often cannot quit drinking during pregnancy. Researchers say the id...oposed as a way of helping women who are unable to quit drinking during pregnancy. In a study conducted high amounts of alcohol were used in order to mimi...

The Use Of Ointments For The Treatment Of Osteoarthritis Questioned

...to cause gastrointestinal problems and more people quit taking them. However, the topical treatments had problems as well, causing more itching, burning and rashes. Thus researchers conclude saying that more studies have to be done in this regard to support the long term use of topical NSAIDs in osteoart...

Hypnosis Can Help Individuals Quit Smoking

...ikely to have success using hypnosis as a means to quit smoking than women . // The report, which is based...h stopping smoking, women may be less motivated to quit the habit. However the common consensus was that one hypnotic treatment is not enough to quit smoki...

Laser Therapy Found To Help People Quit Smoking

...ch shows Low Level Laser Therapy could help people quit smoking. Laser therapy also does not require nicot...ose receiving the treatment who did not completely quit at least cut down on consumption. Smoking habits of most participants in the control group did not c...

The Harmful Effects Of Secondhand Smoke

...ople who had either never smoked themselves or had quit smoking for more than 10 years participated in the study. Results showed people who had been exposed to cigarette smoke for many hours a day as children were more than three-times as likely to develop lung cancer in adulthood as those not exposed. Lo...

Association of maternal and granny’s smoking on children’s asthma provd

... first five years of life. Children of mothers who quit smoking before pregnancy did not show any risks for asthma. On interesting discovery was the fact that if mother had experienced maternal smoking while still in the uterus of her mother, children’s risk of having childhood asthma also increases. Howe...

Cutting down on alcohol may reduce cigarette craving

...ntists for the study think that people who want to quit smoking needs to abstain from drinking in order to experience the lesser effects of a withdrawal symptom. Limiting alcohol intake to one or two drinks per occasion will reduce the intensity of craving for smoke in smokers considerably. The study sa...

Giving up smoking is good for health, but causes weight gain too

...ight gain or lung function. However, if people who quit smoking can maintain their weights, sex difference in terms of health benefits can become null. Giving up of smoking may entail weight gains, but this should not deter smokers from giving up smoking. Medications used to aid smoking cessation can als...

Vaccine to cure smoking

...of their nicotine dependence and thus help them to quit smoking. Swiss researchers for the study, in the annual meeting of American Society of Clinical Oncology, had said that the vaccine for nicotine dependence had completed both its first and second phase of human trials successfully. The first phase o...

Smokers may differ in their cravings for smoking

... considered to be at the root of not being able to quit smoking, recent research suggests that conditioned response to various sensory cues like presentation of visuals, or smelling of tobacco can also set the stage of continuous smoking for smokers who are not able to quit. In the new research scientists...

Quit smoking to save your teeth

...for quitting smoking. One fifth of the smokers had quit smoking in the period of one year of the study, wi...nt for their gum disease. Of the patients who had quit smoking, all of their oral health, especially the health of the gums had improved on quitting smokin...

Quitting Smoking Made Easy By Track Of New Chemical

...oxidase (MAO), which will help those struggling to quit smoking. This enzyme has been found to play a cruc...finding could be the basis of better treatments to quit smoking in the future. Source: Indo-Asian News Service...

Trained Counselors Counseling Pregnant Smokers To Quit May Not Work

... interviewing by midwives to help pregnant smokers quit or cut down had yielded not significant improvement in the smoking habits of the mothers//. A third of pregnant women smoke and current guidelines recommend that they should be offered intensive support to help them quit. Motivational interviewing -...

Cured Alcoholics Can Be Cured Of Smoking Also

...e replacement therapy would enable more smokers to quit for good, and results from this initial study are ...s 51 percent. This was comparable to non-alcoholic quit rates but considerably higher than anticipated, since previous studies of recovering alcoholics show...

A Move To Help Commercial Sex Workers Quit Their Business

...s.This initiative is hoped to help the sex workers quit the flesh trade on their own and to improve their standard of living. Source: IANS...

Smokers Avoid Dental Care More Than Others

...tal Hygienists’ Association to help their patients quit smoking. Tobacco awareness campaigns are beginning to incorporate more recognition that oral health is affected by the use of tobacco. Lung cancer has traditionally been the focus of attention, but increasingly they are acknowledging that every sys...

New Vaccination For Smokers To Quit Smoking

...test. Forty percent of the participating smokers quit within nine months since being injected with the drug. University of Lausanne professor Jacques Cornuz, who helped develop the anti-nicotine injection, said: "The results have exceeded our expectations." Before the injection the participants had a...

Smokers Cloud Has A Silver Lining?

...ntist. Perhaps they fear being judged and urged to quit smoking. It's important that dental professionals ...ement and concern. If the dentist can help someone quit smoking, that's good. If they cannot, then at least more regular dental checks can be encouraged. ...

Rich Diet Of Fruits & Vegetables Helps To Protect Against Lung Cancer

...oking -- but it was less evident in people who had quit smoking, for reasons that were not clear, the report added. Smokers are 20 to 30 times more likely to contract lung cancer than non-smokers, one of the deadliest types of cancer. The findings were based on a test at 1,674 lung cancer patients and...

Quit smoking for healthier gums

...Clinical Periodontology has found that smokers who quit the habit have a greater chance of saving their te...to kick the habit. Around one-fifth of the smokers quit and it was found that this segment had improved gum health as compared to the group that did not qui...

Vegetables And Garlic Confer Protection From Skin Cancer

... way of fighting cancer. The first of course is to quit smoking. In the current study, scientists from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore found that rubbing an extract from broccoli on to your skin protects you from skin cancer. Other members of the cabbage family which include broccoli, brussels spr...

Osaka Medical Center study showed 70% of smokers couldn’t qui

... that more than 70% of smokers who were willing to quit smoking could not stop themselves from smoking//. ...% of smokers had been asked by their physicians to quit smoking and in this 16% of them were only given correct guidance to quit smoking. The survey questi...

Smoking and mouth cancer

... Foundation. “We know it is much more difficult to quit smoking than to never start, so this is the place to start making sure these children don’t ever smoke.” He says that children are very impressed with the graphic images and go home and tell their parents about it. “By educating the kids we are also ...

Smokers puff away despite cancer Diagnosis

... substantial evidence to suggest that patients who quit smoking around the time of diagnosis have improved disease outcomes compared to those who continue to smoke. The treatments effectiveness may be reduced in continuing smokers and survival rates are lower. The common finding was that the healthcare p...

Tendency To Smoke and Get Addicted Could Run In Families!

...riant form of the gene were only half as likely to quit smoking and stay off tobacco. Identification of the above mentioned genetic pattern of an individual could go a long way in formulating tobacco control programmes for adolescents and adults in the future. For all you know, quitting smoking could be...

WHO Intensifies Anti-Tobacco war

...olicy, even though they will also be encouraged to quit smoking. Serving members will be prohibited from smoking at the premises of the WHO. The new people to be recruited will however be asked to if they will give up smoking if they were to be employed by the WHO. Tobacco related diseases kill almost 5...