Smokers Who Quit Gradually Or Cold Turkey Have Similar Success

Although many smokers try to quit by selecting a “quit day” and going cold turkey, a new Cochrane review finds that quitting gradually might work just as well. The authors evaluated 10 studies with 3,760 participants and studies had a minimum six-month follow-up period…

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Smokers Who Quit Gradually Or Cold Turkey Have Similar Success

Mental Function May Be Impaired By Smoking

Men and women with a history of alcohol abuse may not see long-term negative effects on their memory and thinking, but female smokers do, a new study suggests. In a study of 287 men and women ages 31 to 60, researchers found that those with past alcohol-use disorders performed similarly on standard tests of cognitive function as those with no past drinking problems…

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Mental Function May Be Impaired By Smoking

Recent Cigarette Marketing Campaign Targeted Teen Girls

The 1998 Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) prohibits tobacco industry advertising practices that encourage underage teenagers to smoke, yet new research out of the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego has found that a 2007 marketing campaign for Camel brand cigarettes was effective in encouraging young girls to start smoking. The study, led by John P…

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Recent Cigarette Marketing Campaign Targeted Teen Girls

No Time For Complacency On Smoking, Warns Confederation Chair

The chair of the NHS Confederation, Bryan Stoten, has used National No-Smoking Day to warn against any complacency in the efforts to reduce smoking. Mr Stoten also said that, despite the financial pressures currently affecting public services, it was crucial for the NHS and society did not forget about the cost and harm of smoking…

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No Time For Complacency On Smoking, Warns Confederation Chair

Visit Your Pharmacy This No Smoking Day

Helping a man to stop smoking after 43 years and supporting a woman to quit cigarettes following 15 previous relapses are just two examples where a local pharmacy made the difference of a life time…

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Visit Your Pharmacy This No Smoking Day

The Speed At Which Nicotine Peaks In The Brain

Nicotine takes much longer than previously thought to reach peak levels in the brains of cigarette smokers, according to new research conducted at Duke University Medical Center. Traditionally, scientists thought nicotine inhaled in a puff of cigarette smoke took a mere seven seconds to be taken up by the brain, and that each puff produced a spike of nicotine…

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The Speed At Which Nicotine Peaks In The Brain

New Report Finds Major Benefits To The Health Of The Nation From Increasing Tobacco Taxes, UK

Following an extensive economic evaluation of the benefits of increasing tobacco prices on the health of the nation, ASH has published its report The Effects of Increasing Tobacco Taxation…

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New Report Finds Major Benefits To The Health Of The Nation From Increasing Tobacco Taxes, UK

What Is Nicotine Dependence? What Are The Dangers Of Smoking?

Tobacco smoking is a practice in which tobacco is burned and the smoke inhaled or tasted. Smoking is primarily practiced as a route of administration for nicotine through the lungs; it is a way of getting nicotine into your system rapidly. The most popular current method of smoking is through cigarettes, mainly industrially manufactured ones…

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What Is Nicotine Dependence? What Are The Dangers Of Smoking?

Three Harvard School Of Public Health Alumni Named To New FDA Tobacco Advisory Committee

The recently formed Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s Center for Tobacco Products has just created a new Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee to review and evaluate safety, dependence, and health issues relating to tobacco products and provide appropriate advice, information, and recommendations to the Commissioner of Food and Drugs…

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Three Harvard School Of Public Health Alumni Named To New FDA Tobacco Advisory Committee

Risk Of Hardened Arteries Among 13-Year-olds Increased By Secondhand Smoke

Frequent exposure to environmental tobacco smoke among 13-year-olds is associated with an increased risk of future blood vessel hardening and greater risks of other heart disease factors, according to new research published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, a journal of the American Heart Association…

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Risk Of Hardened Arteries Among 13-Year-olds Increased By Secondhand Smoke

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