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...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...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...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...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...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...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...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...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....Reducing Number Of Cigarettes Not Enough
...century will happen when the number of smokers who quit significantly increase....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...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...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...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...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 ......eart disease would do better to get more exercise, quit smoking and cut down saturated fats in their diet than give up milk!...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......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......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......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...