News tagged with regular smokers


Perceived access to cigarettes predicts youth smoking

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 14, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Kids who see cigarettes as easily accessible are more likely to end up as regular smokers, particularly if they have friends who smoke, according to a new report published in the current issue of Annals of Family Medicine. The st ...





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Using nicotine replacement therapy could help some smokers quit gradually

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Smokers who do not want to quit right now, but are prepared to try to reduce their smoking are twice as likely to stop smoking in the long-term if they use nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) to help them cut down gradually, ...


Smokers make poorer workers

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 29, 2007 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Smokers perform worse at work than non-smokers, finds a study of US navy female service members published in Tobacco Control.


British smokers may lose medical benefits

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 04, 2007 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Proposals being considered by the British government may deny cigarette smokers routine operations unless they quit smoking a month prior.


Quitting smoking in pregnancy boosts chances of easygoing child

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created Mar 13, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Giving up smoking during pregnancy may boost the chances of giving birth to an easy going child, indicates research in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.


First brain study reveals benefits of exercise on quitting smoking

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research from the University of Exeter reveals for the first time, that changes in brain activity, triggered by physical exercise, may help reduce cigarette cravings. Published in the journal Psychopharmacology, the study ...


Smoking remains potent risk factor for death from heart disease, cancer

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created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Smoking persists as a major risk factor for death from heart disease and cancer in adults who already have heart disease and receive good medical therapy, according to research reported in Circulation: Jo ...


Do 'light' cigarettes deliver less nicotine to the brain than regular cigarettes?

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 28, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

For decades now, cigarette makers have marketed so-called light cigarettes — which contain less nicotine than regular smokes — with the implication that they are less harmful to smokers' health. A new UCLA study shows, however, ...


Smoking gun: just one cigarette has harmful effect on the arteries of young healthy adults

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Even one cigarette has serious adverse effects on young adults, according to research presented by Dr. Stella Daskalopoulou at the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress 2009, co-hosted by the Heart and Stroke Foundation and the ...


Children whose mothers smoked during pregnancy, early childhood more likely to smoke as adults

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created May 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Children of mothers who smoked during pregnancy and their early childhood years may be predisposed to take up smoking as teens and young adults, compounding the physical damage they sustained from the smoke exposure.


1/5 of British adult survivors of childhood cancer smoke despite hazards

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jul 30, 2008 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

One-fifth of British adult survivors of childhood cancers are current smokers, and nearly a third have been regular smokers at some point in their lives, according to a study in the July 29 online issue of the Journal of ...



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