ALLMedicine™ Smoking Cessation Center

Jan 23rd, 2021 - Guidelines recommend offering cessation to smokers eligible for lung cancer screening but there is little data comparing specific cessation approaches in this setting. We compared the benefits and costs of different smoking cessation interventions...

Jan 22nd, 2021 - Child exposure to cigarette smoke is harmful. It should be reduced through parental smoking cessation interventions. The aim of our study was to determine the impact of simple advice provided by the pediatrician on the smoking habits of parents of...

Jan 21st, 2021 - Strong evidence shows that smoking cessation decreases mortality. Much less is known regarding the association between reduction in cigarettes per day (CPD) and mortality. The primary aim of this systematic review is to compare the mortality risk ...

Jan 19th, 2021 - We describe primary care providers' current practice patterns related to smoking cessation counseling and lung cancer screening (LCS). Family, internal medicine, and pulmonary medicine providers from two medical centers were asked to complete an e...

Jan 19th, 2021 - E-cigarettes are the most popular consumer choice for support with smoking cessation in the United Kingdom. However, there are concerns that long-term e-cigarette use may sustain concurrent tobacco smoking or lead to relapse to smoking in ex-smoke...

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...

Jan 23rd, 2021 - Guidelines recommend offering cessation to smokers eligible for lung cancer screening but there is little data comparing specific cessation approaches in this setting. We compared the benefits and costs of different smoking cessation interventions...

Jan 22nd, 2021 - Child exposure to cigarette smoke is harmful. It should be reduced through parental smoking cessation interventions. The aim of our study was to determine the impact of simple advice provided by the pediatrician on the smoking habits of parents of...

Jan 21st, 2021 - Strong evidence shows that smoking cessation decreases mortality. Much less is known regarding the association between reduction in cigarettes per day (CPD) and mortality. The primary aim of this systematic review is to compare the mortality risk ...

Jan 19th, 2021 - Prazosin Hydrochloride Capsules, USP is indicated for the treatment of hypertension, to lower blood pressure. Lowering blood pressure reduces the risk of fatal and nonfatal cardiovascular events, primarily strokes and myocardial infarctions. These...

Jan 19th, 2021 - Prazosin Hydrochloride Capsules, USP is indicated for the treatment of hypertension, to lower blood pressure. Lowering blood pressure reduces the risk of fatal and nonfatal cardiovascular events, primarily strokes and myocardial infarctions. These...

Dec 28th, 2020 - In the United States, men and women who survive adult-onset cancers for at least 5 years are at significantly increased risk of developing and dying from new primary cancers, particularly those driven by smoking and obesity, a new study shows. "Th...

Dec 6th, 2020 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Most patients who undergo elective endovascular interventions for claudication are not medically optimized first, as recommended, and only a minority are free of symptoms at two years, according to a new study. This stu...

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)...