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
Jan 31, 2011 |
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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, ...
Sep 24, 2010 |
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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 ...
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Mar 08, 2011 |
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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 ...
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Jan 03, 2011 |
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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 ...
Oct 02, 2010 |
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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 ...
Apr 23, 2009 |
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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.
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Jan 05, 2009 |
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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 ...
Jun 02, 2010 |
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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
Apr 27, 2010 |
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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, ...
Nov 18, 2009 |
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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 ...
Sep 01, 2009 |
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