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Quitting Smoking - Help for Cravings and Tough Situations
American Cancer Society — Quitting smoking can be a long and hard process. Every day you must decide not to smoke today. Staying quit is the final and most important stage of the process. Each day that you do not smoke is a small victory. These all add up to a huge ...More…
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Guide to Quitting Smoking
American Cancer Society — The US Surgeon General has said, "Smoking cessation [stopping smoking] represents the single most important step that smokers can take to enhance the length and quality of their lives." Quitting smoking is not easy, but you can do it. To have ...More…
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Important Information on Chantix (varenicline)
Food & Drug Administration — At the request of FDA, Pfizer, the manufacturer of Chantix, has updated the Chantix prescribing information to include warnings about the possibility of severe changes in mood and behavior in patients taking Chantix. FDA is highlighting the ...More…
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Quit Smoking
Make an appointment with your doctor to discuss medications that may help. Send an e-card to encourage a friend or family member to quit smoking with you. Learn how smoking relates to heart disease. If you are a smoker, itâEURs a good idea to get ...More…
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Pasos para dejar de fumar
American Cancer Society — Más de 46 millones de personas en los Estados Unidos han tomado la decisión . . . De acuerdo con el Director General de Salud Pública de los Estados Unidos, "dejar de fumar representa el paso más importante que los fumadores pueden dar para vivir ...More…
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Usted Puede
Agency for Healthcare Research — Dejar de fumar es difícil. Muchas personas lo intentan varias veces antes de conseguirlo. Este folleto explica distintas maneras para ayudarle dejar de fumar. Más de tres milliones de hispanos fuman regularmente, pero 7 de cade 10 de ellos han ...More…
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Quit Smoking
Agency for Healthcare Research — Quitting is hard. Many people try several times before they quit for good. But they do succeed. Smoking causes illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, stroke, problems with pregnancy, and lung disease. The people around you, especially children, ...More…
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Cigarette Smoking Among Adults --- United States, 2006
Centers for Disease Control — One of the national health objectives for 2010 is to reduce the prevalence of cigarette smoking among adults to < 12% (objective 7-1a) (1). To assess progress toward achieving this objective, CDC analyzed data from the 2006 National Health ...More…
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Your Social Network Often Determines Your Smoking Status
American Cancer Society — Whether a person quits smoking depends in large part on whether his spouse or friends kick the habit, according to a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Harnessing these social forces may be the key to reaching more ...More…
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Study Better Defines Risks of Smoking, Benefits of ...
American Cancer Society — The study, an analysis of data from the Nurse's Health Study (NHS), found that women who smoked were at a higher risk for death overall, and that that risk increases with the number of cigarettes smoked per day and the earlier a woman started ...More…
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"Smoking Cessation"
Clinical Trials — PROS Smokebusters: Adolescent Smoking Cessation in Pediatric Primary Care Evaluation of a Tailored Smoking Cessation Treatment Algorithm Based on Initial Treatment Response and Genotype Drug: Nicotine Patches; Drug: Nicotine patches, then ...More…
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Smoking Cessation
As part of the 2007 Doctors Day observance, ASA distributed the Video News Release (VNR), Featured in the video is ASA member David O. Warner, M.D., of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. The video explains how stopping smoking can improve ...More…