(PhysOrg.com) -- Many healthcare providers are quick to advise patients to quit smoking, but few follow up with programs, plans or prescriptions to help them break the habit, new research from UC Davis has found.
Jun 15, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the largest study of its kind, University of Arizona researcher Judith Gordon and her colleagues have proven the effectiveness of quit-tobacco interventions in public dental care settings ...
Jun 08, 2010
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In a unique twist to a decades-old health crisis, Michigan State University researchers are testing a new vaccine to help people quit smoking and avoid relapses.
May 21, 2010
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Using the same technique they developed to document the harmful effects of tobacco products, a team of researchers found that cigarettes made without tobacco or nicotine may be more carcinogenic because they actually induce ...
May 12, 2010
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As fewer people puff on cigarettes, a new smoking trend may be gaining popularity among North American youth. A study published in the journal Pediatrics has found that almost one-quarter of young adults in Montreal had us ...
May 10, 2010
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Kids who have just started smoking, but not on a daily basis, don't seem to recognize the early symptoms of dependence, according to a new study.
May 03, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In a paper published in the journal Nature Genetics, a UNC team reported that three genetic regions were associated with the number of cigarettes smoked per day, one region was associated with smoking initia ...
Apr 26, 2010
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A new study links nicotine poisoning with weight gain, and concludes that active smokers, not only those who stop, put on more weight than non-smokers. After four years of analysis in the University of Navarra, those who ...
Apr 22, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Quitting smoking is a hard task for anyone, but tailored cessation therapy may increase an individual’s chance of success, according to Caryn Lerman, PhD, Mary W. Calkins Professor of Psychiatry and Deputy ...
Apr 20, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A tobacco company's new, dissolvable nicotine pellet--which is being sold as a tobacco product, but which in some cases resembles popular candies--could lead to accidental nicotine poisoning ...
Apr 19, 2010
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It is often thought that smoking is used as a coping strategy to deal with work stress. However, the pressures of work can actually lower a smoker's nicotine dependence, contrary to popular belief. The surprising finding ...
Apr 12, 2010
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Nicotine withdrawal can cause dangerous agitation in intensive care patients. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Critical Care found that, compared to non-smokers, agitated smokers were more likely ...
Apr 09, 2010
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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.
Mar 17, 2010
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Toxins released by certain microalgae can contaminate fish and shellfish which then become toxic to humans. French researchers from CNRS and CEA have, for the first time, identified the mechanisms of action ...
Mar 10, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- 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.
Mar 08, 2010
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