ALLMedicine™ Smoking Cessation Center

Feb 27th, 2021 - Background Programmes for collective smoking cessation, based on the British model Stoptober, are proposed by public health units in many countries. There is a need for data estimating the rate at which participants in these programmes are success...

Feb 24th, 2021 - To gain new insights into the experiences of nurses who smoke and to understand the impact of those experiences on their delivery of smoking cessation interventions. A meta-ethnographic synthesis. CINAHL, Embase, MEDLINE, PsychINFO, Web of Science...

Feb 24th, 2021 - To design strategies for provider education and implementation of clinical guidelines, this study investigated how physicians (1) approach tobacco cessation, including barriers to screening and treatment, (2) prioritize tobacco cessation, and (3) ...

Feb 23rd, 2021 - This study investigated the smoking behaviours and cessation rates of head and neck cancer (HNC) patients, and their barriers and facilitators to cessation. The study used a mixed methods, sequential explanatory design. The quantitative data were ...

Feb 23rd, 2021 - Despite the aggressive marketing of electronic nicotine device systems (ENDS) as smoking cessation tools, the evidence of their effectiveness is mixed. We conducted a systematic review of randomised controlled trials to determine the effect of END...

Jan 19th, 2021 - We earlier confirmed that there are isoforms of Ca2+/calmodulin (CaM)-dependent protein kinase I (CaM kinase I) (CaM kinase Ibeta1 and Igamma) beside CaM kinase Ialpha by cDNA cloning (Yokokura, H., Terada, O., Naito, Y., and Hidaka, H. (1997) Bio...

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...

Feb 27th, 2021 - Background Programmes for collective smoking cessation, based on the British model Stoptober, are proposed by public health units in many countries. There is a need for data estimating the rate at which participants in these programmes are success...

Feb 24th, 2021 - To gain new insights into the experiences of nurses who smoke and to understand the impact of those experiences on their delivery of smoking cessation interventions. A meta-ethnographic synthesis. CINAHL, Embase, MEDLINE, PsychINFO, Web of Science...

Feb 24th, 2021 - To design strategies for provider education and implementation of clinical guidelines, this study investigated how physicians (1) approach tobacco cessation, including barriers to screening and treatment, (2) prioritize tobacco cessation, and (3) ...

Feb 23rd, 2021 - This study investigated the smoking behaviours and cessation rates of head and neck cancer (HNC) patients, and their barriers and facilitators to cessation. The study used a mixed methods, sequential explanatory design. The quantitative data were ...

Feb 23rd, 2021 - Despite the aggressive marketing of electronic nicotine device systems (ENDS) as smoking cessation tools, the evidence of their effectiveness is mixed. We conducted a systematic review of randomised controlled trials to determine the effect of END...

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 22nd, 2020 - People with chronic lung disease who need significant amounts of oxygen should be able to take it in liquid form when they are able to leave home, according to a new guideline from the American Thoracic Society (ATS). For this reason, the guidelin...

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)...