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Medical News Today - Smoking / Quit Smoking

Smoking / Quit Smoking News From Medical News Today
Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:49:14 +0100


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...
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:00:00 PDT

Quit Smoking With The Help Of Your Mobile, UK
A new iPhone app that helps people to stop smoking was launched yesterday by Public Health Minister Gillian Merron. To coincide with 'No Smoking Day' on the 10 March, the Department of Health has released the first official NHS 'Quit Smoking' app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Available from iTunes, http://www.smokefree.nhs...
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:00:00 PDT

Years Of Smoking Associated With Lower Parkinson's Risk, Not Number Of Cigarettes Per Day
Researchers have new insight into the relationship between Parkinson's disease and smoking. Several studies have shown that smokers have a lower risk of developing Parkinson's disease...
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:00:00 PDT

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...
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:00:00 PDT

Program Could Help Teens Control Asthma
An asthma program specifically tailored to teens could help those in rural areas manage their disease and avoid potentially fatal complications, Medical College of Georgia researchers say. Black males have a death rate from asthma that is six times greater than their white counterparts, and Dr...
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 PDT

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...
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:00:00 PDT

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...
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:00:00 PDT

News From The March Issue Of Chest
PREGNANT SMOKERS WITH ASTHMA HAVE INCREASED HEALTH RISKS Pregnant women with asthma who smoke have an increased risk for asthma symptoms and fetal growth abnormalities. Researchers from the Medical University of South Carolina observed 2,210 pregnant women with asthma to determine the effect of active and passive household smoking on asthma severity and obstetric/neonatal outcomes...
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:00:00 PDT

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...
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PDT

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...
Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:00:00 PDT


 

 



 

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