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Dec 1st, 2020 - Smoking in pregnancy constitutes a preventable risk factor for fetal/child development and maternal-fetal attachment (MFA) seems to contain a momentum that can break the chain of adverse outcomes by promoting maternal prenatal health practices. Th...

Dec 1st, 2020 - Assessing benefits and harms of health interventions is resource-intensive and often requires feasibility and pilot trials followed by adequately powered randomised clinical trials. Data from feasibility and pilot trials are used to inform the des...

Nov 30th, 2020 - A recently developed network perspective on tobacco withdrawal posits that withdrawal symptoms causally influence one another across time, rather than simply being indicators of a latent syndrome. Evidence supporting a network perspective would sh...

Nov 30th, 2020 - Many health professionals working with teenage and young adult cancer patients (TYA-HPs) do not provide advice on physical activity, dietary intake, smoking cessation, and alcohol consumption as part of routine cancer care. The aim of this study w...

Nov 30th, 2020 - To determine if inpatient counseling with additional counseling could increase smoking cessation. Prospective study. Level I trauma center. Current smokers with an operative fracture randomly assigned to control (no counseling), brief counseling (...

May 12th, 2020 - People who quit smoking prior to a lung cancer diagnosis demonstrated considerably reduced risk for death due to all causes compared with those who continued to smoke, according to study results scheduled for presentation during the ASCO20 Virtual...

May 12th, 2020 - People who quit smoking at any time, even up to 2 years before a lung cancer diagnosis, have increased chances of survival after their diagnosis, according to data during a 2020 ASCO Virtual Scientific Program press briefing.

May 12th, 2020 - A retrospective study examining the time since a patient quit smoking before a lung cancer diagnosis and the subsequent survival outcomes after the lung cancer diagnosis indicated that it is never too late to stop smoking (Abstract 1512). Among pa...

Nov 25th, 2019 - Smokers are at increased risk for surgical complications. Despite the known benefits of smoking cessation, many perioperative health care providers do not routinely provide smoking cessation interventions. The variation in delivery of perioperativ...

Oct 1st, 2019 - The use of e-cigarettes has increased rapidly. Although vaping has been shown to assist with smoking cessation, cases of severe vaping-related pulmonary disease and a number of deaths have recently been reported. Here we present a collection of ar...

Dec 1st, 2020 - Smoking in pregnancy constitutes a preventable risk factor for fetal/child development and maternal-fetal attachment (MFA) seems to contain a momentum that can break the chain of adverse outcomes by promoting maternal prenatal health practices. Th...

Dec 1st, 2020 - Assessing benefits and harms of health interventions is resource-intensive and often requires feasibility and pilot trials followed by adequately powered randomised clinical trials. Data from feasibility and pilot trials are used to inform the des...

Nov 30th, 2020 - A recently developed network perspective on tobacco withdrawal posits that withdrawal symptoms causally influence one another across time, rather than simply being indicators of a latent syndrome. Evidence supporting a network perspective would sh...

Nov 30th, 2020 - Many health professionals working with teenage and young adult cancer patients (TYA-HPs) do not provide advice on physical activity, dietary intake, smoking cessation, and alcohol consumption as part of routine cancer care. The aim of this study w...

Nov 30th, 2020 - To determine if inpatient counseling with additional counseling could increase smoking cessation. Prospective study. Level I trauma center. Current smokers with an operative fracture randomly assigned to control (no counseling), brief counseling (...

Nov 10th, 2020 - (Reuters Health) - Smokers may be more successful at cessation when they receive e-cigarettes in addition to counseling compared to counseling alone, a new study suggests. At the halfway point in a 24-week trial, participants who got counseling wi...

Oct 12th, 2020 - (Reuters Health) - Smokers aged 12 to 19 who sought cessation treatment didn't have any more success with varenicline than with placebo, in a recent trial. Researchers randomly assigned 312 teens who sought smoking cessation treatment to receive 1...

Sep 10th, 2020 - E-cigarettes are likely to reduce the harm to health if used as a replacement for conventional cigarettes but still pose a risk to health, says the independent Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COT)...

Sep 10th, 2020 - E-cigarettes are likely to reduce the harm to health if used as a replacement for conventional cigarettes but still pose a risk to health, says the independent Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COT)...

Jul 26th, 2020 - These are the UK coronavirus stories you need to know about today. GP Incentives in Obesity Plan GPs will get incentives to help deliver the Government's new obesity strategy in England. At the weekend Public Health England released a report confi...