News tagged with active smoking

Brain scan can tell if a smoker will quit (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Brain scans showing neural reactions to pro-health messages can predict if you'll keep that resolution to quit smoking more accurately than you yourself can. That's according to a new study ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Stress can control our genes

Stress has become one of the major disease states in the developed world. But what is stress? It depends on from where you look. You may experience stress as something that affects your entire body and mind, ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Sep 24, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Text messaging helps smokers break the habit

A pair of related studies on smoking cessation by researchers at the University of Oregon and other institutions have isolated the brain regions most active in controlling urges to smoke and demonstrated the effectiveness ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Breast cancer linked to environmental smoke exposure among Mexican women

Mexican women who do not smoke but are exposed to smoking, known as environmental smoke exposure, are at three times higher risk for breast cancer than non-smoking women not exposed to passive smoking, according to findings ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 02, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Brain imaging studies examine how anti-smoking medications may curb cravings

The smoking cessation medications bupropion and varenicline may both be associated with changes in the way the brain reacts to smoking cues, making it easier for patients to resist cravings, according to two reports posted ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Active smoking and second-hand smoke linked to breast cancer

There is now enough scientific evidence to link both active smoking and second-hand smoke to breast cancer, according to an international panel convened by the Ontario Tobacco Research Unit, an affiliate of the Dalla Lana ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New findings shed light on why smokers struggle to quit

Just seeing someone smoke can trigger smokers to abandon their nascent efforts to kick the habit, according to new research conducted at Duke University Medical Center.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 05, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Cigarette smoking, fructose consumption exacerbates liver disease

Recent studies suggest that modifiable risk factors such as cigarette smoking and fructose consumption can worsen nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). With NAFLD, fat accumulates in the liver of overweight individuals ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 27, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Breast cancer: Risk increases for smokers and overweight women

A recent study published in the Journal of Cancer Epidemiology has reinforced the correlation between being overweight, smoking and breast cancer. What makes this study unique is how test subjects were not diagnosed for BR ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

A doctor's referral for better fitness

People visit physicians to get or stay healthy, but should questions about physical activity be a part of these visits, too -- every time? The American College of Sports Medicine and its Exercise is Medicine program think ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 02, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Current cigarette smokers at increased risk of seizures

A recent study determined there is a significant risk of seizure for individuals who currently smoke cigarettes. Boston-based researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School also found that long-term, ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0