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Patients with mental health disorders, particularly schizophrenia, have higher rates of cigarette smoking and more difficulty quitting. Physicians at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School researching effective smoking cessation treatments have found ...
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May 31 marks the 25th anniversary of World No Tobacco Day, but does the day really inspire anyone to think about quitting smoking? Yes it does, according to a new study. Researchers monitored news promoting cessation and Internet search queries ...
20 hours ago
On Tuesday afternoon, May 22, 2012, results from seven late-breaking clinical trials will be presented in session C91 at the ATS International Conference.
7 days ago
Vitamin C supplementation in pregnant women who are unable to quit smoking significantly improves pulmonary function in their newborns, according to a new study.
06:35 May 22, 2012
Health care professionals do a better job helping people quit smoking when they are trained in smoking cessation techniques, a new Cochrane Library review finds.
08:42 May 18, 2012
A popular smoking cessation medication has been under a cloud of suspicion ever since the Canadian Medical Association Journal published a study July 2011 reporting 'risk of serious adverse cardiovascular events associated with varenicline.' ...
16:45 May 3, 2012
The smoking cessation drug varenicline significantly reduced alcohol consumption in a group of heavy-drinking smokers, in a study carried out by researchers at the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center at the University of California, San ...
06:40 May 3, 2012
Women who smoke and carry specific variations in the genes that impact their metabolism are at higher risk of developing hot flashes in comparison with smokers who do not carry these gene variants, according to a recent study accepted for ...
21:35 May 2, 2012
In the largest imaging study of the human brain ever conductedâ€
10:33 Apr 29, 2012
Smoking is a major public health issue and quitting is the single most important thing smokers can do to improve their health. In the 2012 edition of the prestigious Annual Review of Public Health, researchers at the University of California, San ...
10:31 Apr 27, 2012
Women who smoke in pregnancy may be more likely to have a child with high-functioning autism, such as Asperger's Disorder, according to preliminary findings from a study published online by the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. The study ...
11:45 Apr 26, 2012
New research confirms an association between smoking and a reduced risk for a rare benign tumor near the brain, but the addition of smokeless tobacco to the analysis suggests nicotine is not the protective substance.
12:28 Apr 23, 2012
Anti-tobacco television advertising helps reduce adult smoking, according to a study by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago's Institute for Health Research and Policy -- but some ads may be more effective than others.
10:26 Apr 19, 2012
Half of young adult tobacco smokers also have smoked marijuana in the last 30 days, according to a recent Facebook-based survey conducted by UCSF researchers, indicating a greater prevalence of marijuana and tobacco co-use among smokers age 18-25 ...
17:21 Apr 18, 2012
Substance use is considerably more stigmatized than smoking or obesity, according to a new study by Albright College.
12:44 Apr 9, 2012
Obesity adds more to health care costs than smoking does, reports a study in the March Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, official publication of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine .
09:34 Apr 3, 2012
UC Merced biochemistry Professor Henry Jay Forman discovers that tobacco smoke activates an enzyme that causes cancer cells to spread to other parts of the body.
14:20 Mar 27, 2012
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., have found that when they deplete a smoker's self control, smoking a cigarette may restore self-control.
09:28 Mar 19, 2012
Smoking, the leading preventable cause of mortality in the United States, continues to disproportionately impact lower income members of racial and ethnic minority groups. In a new study published in the American Journal of Public Health, Jason Q. ...
14:46 Mar 15, 2012
Declines in cigarette smoking among Americans since the mid-1950s â€
13:39 Mar 14, 2012
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