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Tobacco Increases The Risk Of Heart Attack

...e years after quitting; however, heavy smokers who quit see a decrease in heart attack risk, but still had an excess risk of around 22 percent 20 years after quitting....

US Courts Say No To 'Light' Cigarettes

... to fund billion-dollar programmes to help smokers quit - a key demand in the case brought by the US Justice Department against Philip Morris USA, a subsidiary of Altria Group Inc. Kessler did side with the government in its claim that low-tar cigarettes could not be considered healthier alternatives to...

Chantix: Disenchanting Smokers from Nicotine

...t almost half of the users were able to completely quit smoking, which has prompted the European regulators to consider its use in United Kingdom. The drug, which will be marketed in the UK under the name Champix, effectively blocks the withdrawal symptoms. Manufactured by Pfizer, the global pharmaceut...

Tobacco in all forms harmful for heart

... for every daily cigarette. Even light smokers who quit have a little extra risk of heart attacks three-fi...quitting, the researchers said. Heavy smokers who quit see a rapid decrease in heart attack risk, but still have some extra risk even 20 years after quitti...

Imaging study affords renewed thrust on smoking cessation treatments

...o so on their own, and fewer than half are able to quit long-term even with comprehensive treatment. This study helps explain why." The scientists, led by Dr. Arthur Brody of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, used positron emission tomography (PET) to scan the brains of 11 smokers and assess n...

Nurses Can Play Big Role In Helping Patients Quit Smoking

...their nurses were nearly 50 percent more likely to quit than smokers with no nursing intervention. The report also notes that nurses often care for underserved people, who are disproportionately affected by tobacco use. Summaries in the journal highlight innovative methods for treating tobacco dependenc...

Study finds Babies In America Getting Fatter

...dy were of the opinion that mothers should try and quit smoking and excessive weight gain during their pregnancy and should breastfeed their babies so as to reduce the risk of having overweight infats....

Official Lapses Lead to NRI’s suicide in Londo

...ocial workers. Sidhu, a former receptionist, had quit her job after marrying Indian-born post office worker Manjit. On that day, she told a railway worker at the station: "I'm taking my children to see the trains." In February this year, Sidhu's mother, Satwant Kaur Sodhi, 56, committed a similar suic...

Private Health Insurance Policy Holders on the Rise

...holders had fallen from 50 to 35. 1,00,000 members quit the Southern Cross Insurance policy in 2003, due t...afford it. Rising premium had made Joy Pipe, 72, quit her Insurance policy. Unfortunately, later. she was even cut off from public hospital waiting list. ...

Smoking can Cause Black Hairy Tongue in Men

... Sufferers should improve their oral hygiene and quit smoking. Go over the tongue with a soft toothbrush several times a day, say health experts. Unfortunately, it is difficult to say how long therapy can take. On the one hand, treatment could take years to have an impact and on the other, it could al...

Can Smoking Relieve Pain?

...it is important to find ways to help pain patients quit smoking.’ Pain relief, the study suggests, should be a starting point for a myriad of healthy lifestyle changes. Similarly, researchers suggest smoking cessation programs incorporate pain management into their protocols. ‘Like in similar research, ...

Early Intervention Of Smoking In Teens Essential To Avoid Dependence

... discusses the challenges in helping young smokers quit and the need for stronger public health efforts to keep youth from starting in the first place. Source: Eurekalert...

Yoga and Meditation Comes in Aid of Iraqis to Rid of Trauma

...id Vindo Kumar, an Arabic-speaking 43-year-old who quit the corporate world to join Art of Living project 1991 and was among the first from India to visit Iraq. "What is important is the mind. Ultimately, it is all in the mind of the people," he said. "Imagine, no mobile phones, no water, no electricity...

Women Smokers Fear Quitting Will Lead to Weight Gain

...arly 40 percent of female German smokers refuse to quit smoking for fear of gaining weight, a representative study by the Instituts Gewis for the Hamburg-based magazine// Petra showed. Asked why they smoked, 39 percent of those between ages 25 and 39 replied, "If I quit, I'll gain weight." Experts disa...

Is Nicotine Lozenge A Safe Smoking Cessation Product?

...he important products among those that are used to quit smoking.// The federal government has announced ...tive smoking cessation product. People who want to quit smoking should be able to buy these nicotine replacement products that are readily available in all ...

COPD A Little Known Killer Disease

...e disease and its symptoms and encourage people to quit smoking. ...

Scotland's First 'Stand-Alone' Private Fertility Centre Established

...are the two leading experts in the field, who have quit the NHS to run the full time clinic, are now in the process of training replacements. It was also mentioned that a third doctor, gynaecologist Marco Gaudoin, who would continue to remain with the NHS at his post at the Southern General Hospital in Gl...

Women Smokers on the Rise

...show that about 54.20 % of women smokers wanted to quit and 37.29 % of the women were exposed to secondhand smoke at home and 25.54 % at work. An alarming issue is that about 4.2% of the junior high school girls smoke. Chang Ching-ching a professor in the department of advertising at National Chengchi Uni...

New Drug to Help Smokers Kick the Habit

...udies, most people given the drug actually did not quit smoking". Dr. Karen R. Reeves, from Pfizer Global Research and Development in Groton, Connecticut, and colleagues compared the effects of Chantix against those of Zyban and placebo in two Pfizer-sponsored studies. In a third study, Chantix was test...

Light & Mild Cigarettes Just As Harmful As Regular Ones

...e so-called light cigarettes are half as likely to quit than other smokers//. Researchers in the US beli...sed light cigarettes were about 50% less likely to quit than other normal cigarette smokers. Researchers have stated that though light cigarettes did cont...

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