ZYBAN, The smoking cessation drug marked for its adverse reactions
GlaxoSmithKline's smoking cessation drug Zyban, which is being taken by over 5 million people world wide, is held responsilble for a raise in the suspected adverse reactions due to drug intake in UK. Pharmacovigilance statistics of MCA has shown a raise of about 37% more adverse reactions so called "yellow cards" during the period of January to April 2001 compared to that of last years....Weight gain following smoking cessation not linked to Leptin
Smoking cessation has often been connected to gaining excess weight. It has been debated for long that this weight gain could be related to the hormone leptin, which regulates appetite and controls// weight. These arguments were based on assumptions that leptin levels were high during smoking periods, thus keeping weight down and after one stops smoking, the leptin levels plummet leading to weigh...Direct To Home: Television Provides Powerful Fillip to Smoking Cessation Campaigns.
American Journal of Preventive Medicine has weighed the impact of advertisements that carry an anti-smoking message, with other types of cessation help -nicotine // replacement therapy (NRT), prescribed medications, professional help or advice, self-help materials, cessation programs, telephone quit line, or web-based cessation sites. The study has revealed that television advertisement...Smoking Cessation Would Be Beneficial For the Recovery of Alcoholics
Researchers conducted a new study and found that smoking makes it harder for a person to recover after alcohol consumption. // Dieter Meyerhoff, professor of radiology at the University of California, San Francisco said that smoking interferes with the brain’s ability to recover from the effects of chronic alcohol abuse. After one month of alcohol consumption researchers foun...Smoking Ban Lights Up Smoking-Cessation Initiatives
Smoke line, a national ant-smoking hotline, managed by the NHS Heath Scotland, has had its lines choked with the increased influx of phone calls, following the smoking ban in Scotland since Sunday, last. // The line which normally receives about 100 calls a day, registered a four fold increase of almost 450 calls a day, post ban Other Anti smoking help lines equally faced an increased...