“Quitting Smoking for Older Adults” New NIH Resource (VIDEO)
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“Quitting Smoking for Older Adults” New NIH Resource
“Quitting Smoking for Older Adults” New NIH Resource The National Institutes of Health has released a new Web resource to help older adults stop smoking. Quitting Smoking for Older Adults, from NIHSeniorHealth, offers videos, worksheets, interactive features, strategies, quizzes, and more for older smokers who want to or are thinking...
E-Cigarettes Can Help Smokers to Quit – Video
E-Cigarettes Can Help Smokers to Quit – Video
E-Cigarettes Can Help Smokers to Quit
E-Cigarettes Can Help Smokers to Quit People attempting to quit smoking without professional help are approximately 60% more likely to report succeeding if they use e-cigarettes than if they use willpower alone or over-the-counter nicotine replacement therapies such as patches or gum, reveals new research published in Addiction. The study...
Even with Weight Gain, Quitting Smoking Still Better for Your Health
Among adults without diabetes, quitting smoking, compared with continuing smoking, was associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular disease despite subsequent weight gain, according to a study appearing in the March 13 issue of JAMA.ÛÏCigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable mortality in the United States and a major...
Exposure to Tobacco Smoke Cause IMMEDIATE Body Damage
A new report by U.S. Surgeon General Regina M. Benjamin says that exposure to tobacco smoke – no matter how small – causes immediate damage to your body that can lead to serious illness or death. The report, How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease: The Biology and Behavioral Basis for Smoking-Attributable...
Obesity Poses Same If Not Greater Risks Than Smoking
Researchers at Columbia University and The City College of New York published a study in the February issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine that showed that the quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) lost to obesity are equal to, or greater than, those lost because of smoking. From 1993 to...
Higher Risk of Dementia for Middle Age Smokers, Diabetics and those Hypertensive
Part of the health crisis is the fact that we do not take care of ourselves. Our choices today WILL affect our health and life expectancy later. More proof, in the August 19 Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, it is reported that those who smoke, or suffer from hypertension...