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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...

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...

Voice has to be looked after with care

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

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...

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...

Niacin Safe for Diabetics

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

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...

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...

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...

Why skin sags

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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....

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....

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