Scientists Unravel How Smoking Causes Cancer
Scientists have for the first time pinpointed a protein that explains how smoking can directly lead to genetic changes that cause cancer - research published in the British Journal of Cancer* reveals.Researchers have now discovered that the production of a protein called FANCD2 is slowed when lung cells are exposed to cigarette smoke. Low levels of FANCD2 leads to DNA damage, triggering cancer.
Combined Text And Photo Warnings On Tobacco Products To Be Introduced By Minister Following Consultation, Ireland
The Minister for Health and Children, Ms. Mary Harney T.D., is to introduce legislation to allow for the introduction of combined text and photo warnings on tobacco products. The European Commission indicated in the 2001 Directive on the Manufacture, Presentation and Sale of Tobacco Products that they would adopt rules for the use of colour photographs to depict the health consequences of smoking.
Asthmatic Girls And Children Exposed To Tobacco Smoke Benefit More From Montelukast (Singulair)
Girls and children exposed to tobacco smoke respond particularly well to montelukast (Singulair) according to researchers at National Jewish Medical and Research Center. Associate Professor of Pediatrics Nathan Rabinovitch, MD, and his colleagues also identified two biomarkers that may help physicians predict even more precisely which patients will benefit from montelukast.
How Smoking Causes Cancer Pinpointed By OHSU Cancer Institute Researchers
Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute researchers have pinpointed the protein that can lead to genetic changes that cause lung cancer.The research is published in the British Journal of Cancer.Researchers discovered that the production of a protein called FANCD2 is slowed when lung cells are exposed to cigarette smoke. Low levels of FANCD2 leads to DNA damage, triggering cancer.
AAPA Endorses 2008 Public Health Service Guidelines For Treating Tobacco Use And Dependence
The American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA), representing nearly 70,000 physician assistants (PAs) practicing in the U.S., is pleased to join other national organizations in endorsing the Public Health Service-sponsored guidelines on Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update.
Nurses Expose Big Tobacco, Oil, Predatory Lender And Insurance Attacks On Marty Block
Geri Jenkins, RN President of the California Nurses Association, and nurse at UC San Diego Medical Center; called on voters to reject attacks by tobacco, oil, predatory lenders and health insurance companies on Assembly candidate Marty Block. "Voters need to know that the bad guys are trying to fool them," said Geri Jenkins, RN. "The Civil Justice Reform PAC is nothing more than a front for nearly $839,000 in dirty money.
Quit Smoking Message Not Getting Air Time In Mental Health Care
People with mental illness are not receiving the support they need to stop smoking, despite high rates of nicotine dependence and deaths from cardiovascular and respiratory illnesses.According to Professor Steve Kisely, from Griffith University's School of Medicine, health services are failing to provide appropriate smoking cessation strategies to people with problems including depression, schizophrenia or post-traumatic stress disorder.
Smoking Ban Deters Teens From Becoming Established Smokers
A study on teenagers in the US state of Massachusetts suggests that smoke-free restaurant laws designed to protect non-smokers have had an unexpected benefit: they may be stopping a significant number of teenagers becoming established smokers.
New Guidelines For Treatment Of Tobacco Dependence Released
The U.S. Public Health Service released an updated version of the clinical guidelines for treating tobacco dependence. Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update contains strategies and recommendations designed to guide doctors and other medical professionals to help smokers quit. The guidelines, updated for the first time since 2000, call attention to the need for clinicians to understand that there are multiple effective treatment options for tobacco dependence.
Influential School Students Can Help Lower Peers' Smoking Rates
Reduction of smoking rates among teenagers can be achieved by trainingmore influential students in secondary schools to promote anti-smokingmessages in everyday conversations with their friends and peers,according to an article released on May 9, 2008 in The Lancet.A young person's smoking habits are strongly associated with thebehaviors their friends perform and usually, this is attributed to peerpressure.
New Smoking Cessation Guideline Confirms That Now Is The Time To Quit Smoking
Yesterday the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published an update to its 1996 Public Health Service Clinical Practice Guideline, Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence, which contains revised and improved recommendations to providers and clinicians so that they can better assist smokers in quitting. The guideline also confirms that there has never been a better time for smokers to quit than right now.
New Evidence Provides Clinicians With Better Tools To Help Smokers Quit
An updated clinical practice guideline released by the U.S. Public Health Service has identified new counseling and medication treatments that are effective for helping people quit smoking. In addition, the May 7 issue of JAMA includes a commentary that urges clinicians to use the updated guideline to accelerate progress in reducing the use of tobacco.
Brief Exposure To Second-Hand Smoke Bad For Health According To New Study
Nymox Pharmaceutical Corporation (NASDAQ: NYMX) offers TobacAlert™ Urine, an easy-to-use test for second-hand smoke exposure that requires no special equipment or training and can be used for at home or at the workplace. A new study has shown that even a brief exposure to second-hand smoke may hurt human blood vessels.
It's Not Easy To Butt Out
Breaking the habit is hard to do. Recent findings from Mintel reveal that two-thirds of regular smokers have tried to quit and failed. Furthermore, nearly 40% of these smokers have tried to quit more than four times but failed every time. "Everyone knows quitting smoking is tough," comments Billy Hulkower, Senior Analyst at Mintel, "but many people don't realize how hard it actually is. The majority of current smokers have tried to quit but they haven't been successful.
AAPA Endorses 2008 Public Health Service Guidelines For Treating Tobacco Use And Dependence
The American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA), representing nearly 70,000 physician assistants (PAs) practicing in the U.S., is pleased to join other national organizations in endorsing the Public Health Service-sponsored guidelines on Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update.
Women Who Quit Smoking Quickly Reduce Heart Risk But Lungs Take Longer
Women who quit smoking significantly reduce risk of death from coronary heart disease within 5 years, but impact on risk of death from lung and other cancers take longer.These are the findings of Dr Stacey A Kenfield, of the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA, and colleagues in a new study published in the May 7th issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, JAMA.
Targacept Announces Designation Of Lead Compound In Smoking Cessation Program
Targacept, Inc. (NASDAQ:TRGT), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a new class of drugs known as NNR Therapeutics (TM), announced the designation of a lead compound in its smoking cessation program, triggering a $500,000 milestone payment under its alliance agreement with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).
No Affect On Employee Turnover Caused By Smoke-Free Laws
Supporting the argument that smoke-free laws do not damage the hospitality industry, restaurants that ban cigarette smoking haven't suffered from increased employee turnover, according to a new report published in the current online issue of Contemporary Economic Policy. The report , "Smoke-Free Laws and Employee Turnover," was the first of its kind to examine the impact of smoke-free laws on the restaurant labor market.
Waterpipe Smoking On College Campuses Could Lead To Public Health Problem
More and more U.S. college students are smoking tobacco using waterpipes or hookahs and it's becoming a growing public health issue, according to a new study led by a Virginia Commonwealth University researcher.The findings offer important insight into the prevalence and perceptions related to waterpipe tobacco smokers and are reported in the May issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health. The article is also featured in an editorial in the same issue.
News From The May Issue Of The Journal Chest
LATEST REVIEW SUGGESTS LABAs ARE SAFE AND EFFECTIVE FOR COPDPrevious research has linked the use of long-acting B2-agonists (LABA) to increased risk for adverse events or respiratory-related death in patients with stable, moderate to severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD); however, a recent article shows this may not be the case.
Lautenberg Applauds Closure Of Smoking Rooms In Senate Office Buildings
Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) has applauded action by the Senate Rules Committee to close two smoking rooms in Senate office buildings, a move that will protect the health of Senate staff and U.S. Capitol visitors alike. The closure takes effect today and makes the Senate office buildings some of the first buildings on Capitol Hill to be completely smoke-free.
Cell Damage Can Be Caused In 30 Minutes By Secondhand Smoke Exposure
Exposure to secondhand smoke even for a brief period is injurious to health, a new study by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco has found.According to the study, a 30-minute exposure to the level of secondhand smoke that one might normally inhale in an average bar setting was enough to result in blood vessel injury in young and otherwise healthy lifelong nonsmokers.
Youths In Towns With Smoke-Free Restaurant Laws Appear Less Likely To Become Smokers
Young people who live in towns where regulations ban smoking in restaurants may be less likely to become established smokers, according to a report in the May issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Many studies have examined the risk factors that lead young people to try their first cigarette, according to background information in the article.
MIT Researchers Find Novel Way To Repair Airway Injuries - Technique Could Apply To Different Parts Of Human Body
MIT tissue engineers have successfully healed airway injuries in rabbits using a technique they believe could apply to the trachea and other parts of the human body.The work, published in the advance online issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the week of May 5, expands researchers' understanding of the control of tissue repair and could lead to new treatments for tracheal injuries, such as smoke inhalation and damage from long-term intubation.
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364,000 are admitted to NHS hospitals each year
due to diseases caused by smoking. 1000 die every day.
In 1997/98 cig smoking caused 480,000 to consult their Gp’s
heart disease, 20,000 of which were for strokes
50% of all teenagers who currently smoke will die of diseases
caused by tobacco
Between 1950-2000 6 million Brits. Died of smoking
114,000 die from smoking each year
Passive smoking is a now a major killer
Smoking is Britain’s biggest killer
Smoking causes 1 in 3 deaths in Oxfordshire (source article by
Oxford Mail Nov 13th 2004)
One of the reasons hypnotherapy is so effective is that it utilises readiness
for change. The facts above are one of the reasons why people decide to give up
and are read to change.
Unless otherwise stated, the statistics above are courtesy of
www.ash.org.uk.
Please use the calculator below to work out how much you spend a month on
cigarettes, and then compare it to the cost of stopping smoking using our Stop Smoking hypnotic track. You might be
surprised at how quickly you start saving money.
As an online product we wish to be able to reach as many areas as possible outside of the Oxfordshire practice area, to help people to Stop Smoking in a cost effective way by use of our HypnoticTracks Download or CD.
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