Smoking, but not alcohol consumption, is causally associated with psoriasis, according to a study published online June 28 in the British Journal of Dermatology.
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Offering intensive, weekly telephone-based cessation counseling along with nicotine replacement for people who smoke and who were undergoing screening for lung cancer resulted in over a two-fold greater cigarette quit rate ...
Jul 12, 2022
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A healthcare system model that offered tobacco cessation treatment to smokers being discharged from a hospital produced a higher rate of tobacco abstinence during the three- month program than referral to a state-based telephone ...
Jun 27, 2022
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New research in the May 2022 issue of JNCCN—Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network finds the inclusion of the smoking cessation tool Electronic Health Record-Enabled Evidence-Based Smoking Cessation Treatment ...
May 11, 2022
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If you smoke, you're probably aware of a stark reality: Cigarettes are the lead cause of preventable disease, disability and death, killing more than 480,000 people every year. At the same time, an estimated one-third of ...
Apr 21, 2022
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Sarah Kowitt, Ph.D., MPH, Adam Goldstein, MD, MPH, and Samuel Cykert, MD recently published the study "A Heart-Healthy Intervention Improved Tobacco Screening Rates and Cessation Support in Primary Care Practices" in the ...
Apr 11, 2022
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While smoking rates have declined dramatically in the United States, there are still 35 million smokers. There are few data about whether, and if so, how current cigarette smoking habits among those trying to quit are affected ...
Apr 11, 2022
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Smoking cessation adds the same number of heart disease-free years to life as three preventive medications combined, according to research presented at ESC Preventive Cardiology 2022, a scientific congress of the European ...
Apr 7, 2022
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A subgroup analysis of the ASPREE trial could not conclusively demonstrate clear harm or benefit of either cessation or continuation of aspirin in older adults who regularly use aspirin without a clinical indication for its ...
Mar 15, 2022
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Despite public health advances, tobacco use remains one of the most common, preventable and costly health problems in the United States and worldwide. In the U.S., more deaths—an estimated 480,000 each year—are attributable ...
Feb 8, 2022
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