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Tag: smoking cessation
Industry-sponsored anti-smoking advertisements are ineffective in stimulating smoking cessation
1. Smokers reported increased intention to quit smoking after seeing anti-smoking advertisements through television, cigarette packages, newspapers, and tobacco company ...
Smoking cessation and weight change in relation to cardiovascular disease incidence and mortality in people with type 2 diabetes
1. Smoking cessation without weight gain in patients with type 2 diabetes was associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular ...
2 Minute Medicine Rewind January 13, 2020
The association of depression with subsequent dementia diagnosis: A Swedish nationwide cohort study from 1964 to 2016 1. There is ...
Sudden infant death risk rises linearly with amount smoked by mothers
1. Infants of mothers who smoked at least 1 cigarette daily during pregnancy had more than doubled risk of sudden ...
Long-term users of e-cigarettes have decreased carcinogen and toxin levels compared to users of combustible cigarettes
1. Former smokers who used only e-cigarettes or only nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) for ≥6 months (long-term) were found to ...
Post-partum concern-focused smoking cessation intervention not effective at reducing relapse
1. Amongst women who quit smoking during pregnancy, an intervention consisting of cognitive behavioral therapy techniques to address post-partum concerns ...
Abrupt smoking cessation associated with improved abstinence from smoking
1. In this randomized trial, abrupt smoking cessation was more likely to lead to lasting smoking abstinence than gradual smoking ...
Text-message reminders associated with improved smoking cessation amongst young-adults
1. Amongst Swedish university students who smoked cigarettes and were interested in quitting, using the NEXit motivational text messaging program ...
Smoking cessation rates equivalent between most common pharmacotherapies
1. No differences in smoking cessation rates were detected between patients who received nicotine patch monotherapy, combined nicotine patch and ...
