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AIMS: To assess the incidence of long-term smoking cessation as a function of age, gender, social grade and their interactions. DESIGN & SETTING: Cross-sectional surveys of population representative s...
Gutka and Tambaku Paan Use Among South Asian Immigrants: A Focus Group Study.
Smokeless tobacco use is prevalent among South Asian immigrants, particularly in the forms of gutka and tambaku paan. In this paper, we examined (a) gutka and tambaku paan initiation and use patterns...
A number of smoking cessation pharmacotherapies have led to increases in quitting and thus to significant benefits to public health. Among existing medications, nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) has...
Estimating the Impact of Smoking Cessation During Pregnancy: The San Bernardino County Experience.
We examined the relation between maternal smoking and adverse infant outcomes [low birth weight (LBW), and preterm birth (PTB)] during 2007-2008 in San Bernardino County, California-the largest county...
Personalized medicine in rheumatology.
In rheumatology, especially in arthritides, early diagnosis and aggressive therapy may open up new dimensions of expectations, such as improvement of pain, prevention of structural, functional damage...
BACKGROUND: Current smoking prevalence in Thailand decreased from 1991 to 2004 and since that time the prevalence has remained flat. It has been suggested that one of the reasons that the prevalence o...
BACKGROUND: Recent theoretical and empirical work has led to debate over the benefit of delaying the implementation of a decision to quit smoking in order to plan the attempt. These two need not be li...
IMPORTANCE Smoking cessation reduces the risks of cardiovascular disease (CVD), but weight gain that follows quitting smoking may weaken the CVD benefit of quitting. OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis t...
Differential Evaluations of Alcohol-Related Consequences among Emerging Adults.
Personalized feedback interventions (PFIs) to reduce drinking in college students often provide feedback about negative alcohol-related consequences experienced by students to motivate them to drink l...
Latent interaction effects in the theory of planned behaviour applied to quitting smoking.
OBJECTIVES: This study applies three latent interaction models in the theory of planned behaviour (TPB; Ajzen, 1988, Attitudes, personality, and behavior. Homewood, IL: Dorsey Press; Ajzen, 1991, Orga...
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Pregnant Women Who Can't Quit Smoking Should Take Vitamin C
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Pregnant women who have difficulty quitting smoking can take vitamin C to help improve the lung function of her child while also helping to pr...
Quitting Meth Addiction Less Successful In Teen Girls Than Boys
A UCLA-led study of adolescents receiving treatment for methamphetamine dependence has found that girls are more likely to continue using the drug during treatment than boys, suggesting that new appro...
Teen girls less successful than boys at quitting meth
A UCLA-led study of adolescents receiving treatment for methamphetamine dependence has found that girls are more likely to continue using the drug during treatment than boys, suggesting that new......
Teen girls less successful than boys at quitting meth, pilot study says
A UCLA-led study of adolescents receiving treatment for methamphetamine dependence has found that girls are more likely to continue using the drug during treatment than boys, suggesting that new appro...
Teen girls less successful than boys at quitting meth in UCLA pilot research study
(University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences) A UCLA-led study of adolescents receiving treatment for methamphetamine dependence has found that girls are more likely to continue using the d...
Democratic Sen. Harkin Puts Hold On Tavenner's Nomination
The Hill: Harkin Places Hold On Top Healthcare Nominee Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) has placed a hold on one of President Obama's top healthcare nominees. Marilyn Tavenner had previously seemed poised fo...
Light smoking linked to increased risk of rheumatoid arthritis
Women who smoke a few cigarettes each day may increase their chances of developing rheumatoid arthritis and this heightened risk remains for many years after quitting, a study has found. Researchers...
The chances of developing lung cancer associated with asbestos exposure, asbestosis and smoking are dramatically increased when these three risk factors are combined, and quitting smoking significantl...
Smoking Raises Asbestos Workers' Cancer Risk, Study Says
FRIDAY, April 12 (HealthDay News) -- Smokers exposed to asbestos who also have the lung condition asbestosis have a significantly raised risk of developing lung cancer, according to a new study. Qui...
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Protecting the 'Hood Against Tobacco
Among all racial/ethnic groups, African Americans have the greatest risk of becoming ill or dying from tobacco-related diseases. Because of this disproportionate disease burden, it is part...
PROS Smokebusters: Adolescent Smoking Cessation in Pediatric Primary Care
This is a pilot study addressing office systems and clinician behavior change surrounding smoking cessation interventions for teens. The investigators' long-term goal is to improve the qua...
RATIONALE: Contingency management is a behavioral treatment approach that provides immediate rewards for positive change in behavior such as quitting smoking. In this protocol, contingency...
Cigarette smoking represents a major health problem for patients suffering from schizophrenia. Compared to the general population, schizophrenic patients are significantly more likely to b...
Background: The incidence of lung cancer is quite high among people with the human immunodeficiency (HIV) virus. Frequent smoking may explain that cancer increase, given that 50% to 70% o...
This study will compare the effectiveness of counseling plus use of a nicotine patch with counseling alone for helping pregnant women quit smoking. Smoking during pregnancy is the most pre...
Women typically have a more difficult time quitting smoking than men. Little research has been done to understand the differences between men and women that may cause this distinction. T...
Enhancing the Secondary Prevention of Coronary Artery Disease
People with coronary artery disease can reduce their chance of having a heart attack by making healthy lifestyle choices (diet, exercise, quitting smoking,etc.). There are also many medica...
Effectiveness of Reducing Smoking in Facilitating Smoking Cessation in Adolescents - 2
Currently one in five high school students smoke. Smoking can harm adolescents well before they reach adulthood by causing a number of immediate, sometimes irreversible, health risks and...
Treating Tobacco Dependence in Inpatient Psychiatry - 1
The purpose of this study is to test in a randomized clinical trial (N=300) a series of hypotheses concerning the efficacy of an extended expert-system intervention plus nicotine replaceme...
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