Tag: smoking cessation

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...

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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...

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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...

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Smoking and Alzheimers Linked

Smoking more than doubles the risk of Alzheimer’s and vascular dementia.A Kaiser Permanente studyŒæreported that an analysis of more than 20,000 men and women, studied since 1978, found a 157 percent heightened risk of Alzheimer’sŒæfor people who smoked two packs or more a day. For vascular dementia, which is the...

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