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Be a Quitter: How to Break Your Worst Habits
The Die-Hard Smoker Alberta Daniels, 45, Chicago A 30-year smoker, Alberta Daniels didn’t want to quit her pack-a-day habit but knew she had to. “I’m coughing more and my chest is starting to hurt,” she told us. She’d tried kicking butts four times previously, using a nicotine patch and lozenges. Once she quit for four [...]
Taking Smoking Cessation Medication for Several Weeks Before Quitting May Make it Easier
January 5, 2012 Smokers planning to kick the habit may have more success if they begin using a cessation medication several weeks before they actually try to quit. Those are the results of a clinical trial conducted by researchers at the University at Buffalo Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) and other institutions published recently in [...]
Study finds e-cigarettes affect airways, and quickly
The electronic cigarettes marketed as a safer alternative to the real thing produce immediate changes in users’ airways, a small study suggests. Researchers in Greece saw changes in the lung function of healthy smokers who puffed on an e-cigarette for just five minutes — although it’s not clear what the long-term result of those responses [...]
Low dopamine levels during withdrawal promote relapse to smoking
Low dopamine levels during withdrawal promote relapse to smoking February 8, 2012 A new study in Biological Psychiatry this month now suggests that low dopamine levels that occur as a result of withdrawal from smoking actually promote the relapse to smoking. Dopamine is a brain chemical messenger that is critically important in reward and motivation. [...]
Weekend Smoking Can Damage Your Memory, Study Suggests
Weekend Smoking Can Damage Your Memory, Study Suggests – Science Daily March 7, 2012 People who smoke only at weekends cause as much damage to their memory as those who smoke on a daily basis, according to research from Northumbria University. Academics from the Collaboration for Drug and Alcohol Research Group in Northumbria’s School of [...]
Number of smokers grows lighter, but it’s a habit that’s far from being stubbed out
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Is it possible that we’re nearing the end of tobacco road? In the nearly half-century since the U.S. surgeon general proclaimed that smoking cigarettes will lead to cancer and early death, our view of smoking has been steadily spiraling downward. Smokers have fallen from the heights of ultra-cool (think Humphrey Bogart or [...]
Quitting menthol cigarettes may be harder for some smokers
Menthol cigarettes may be harder to quit, particularly for some teens and African-Americans, who have the highest menthol cigarette use, according to a study by a team of researchers. Recent studies have consistently found that racial/ethnic minority smokers of menthol cigarettes have a lower quit rate than comparable smokers of regular cigarettes, particularly among younger [...]
Even light smokers struggle to quit
CLAREMONT, Calif., March 9 (UPI) — Being a light or occasional smoker makes it no easier to quit smoking than being a heavy smoker, a team of U.S. researchers said. Lead researcher Dennis Trinidad of Claremont Graduate University’s School of Community and Global Health, and colleagues at University of California at San Francisco, University of [...]
Some Social Smokers Find It Difficult To Quit
Self-identified “social smokers” may be considered a high-risk group with particular challenges for cessation, reports a national study from the American Journal of Public Health. Researchers compared the association between three different definitions of social smoking – a common pattern among young adults – and cessation indicators. The three different definitions of social smoking they used [...]
Why is it so hard to quit?
American Heart Association You already know smoking is harmful to your body. Even so, lots of people keep smoking. So why should you quit? The logic is simple: You’ll improve the quality and length of your life and the lives of the people around you. Even so, quitting is very difficult. One way to prepare to successfully [...]