Posts Tagged ‘Daily News’

26
Mar

A different take on quitting smoking (Summit Daily News)

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The "Positively Quit! Manual" isn't groundbreaking, but it just may help long-term smokers kick the habit for good, due to a slightly different approach. The 59-page manual, written by a man who stopped smoking after 20 years of addiction, asserts that smokers have "misguided beliefs and correspondingly inappropriate feels about smoking." It aims to dispel what it calls myths. For example ...

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The new hike in taxes on tobacco isn't the only reason to make this the year to quit smoking.

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22
Feb

Stolen: Stop Smoking (Summit Daily News)

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A recent editorial in the British Medical Journal states that "It is never too late for people to stop [smoking], even when they have lung cancer." The studies show that preliminary evidence that smoking cessation after diagnosis of early-stage lung cancer improves outcomes and the risk for death is halved in patients who stop smoking. This finding is based on research being done by the UK ...

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17
Feb

Quit smoking for American Heart Month (Summit Daily News)

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SUMMIT COUNTY - According to Susan Westhof of the Summit Prevention Alliance, February is American Heart Month - a time to lose weight, eat better, exercise more and quit smoking. Westhof said in an e-mail that more than 4,300 Coloradoans die every year from tobacco-related illnesses, and the average tobacco user spends about $1,500 a year on tobacco. For more information about quitting smoking ...

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded more than $119 million to states and U.S. territories to support public health efforts to reduce obesity, increase physical activity, improve nutrition and decrease smoking.

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The Government’s ‘tobacco control strategy’ also proposes banning smoking at entrances to buildings and selling cigarettes in plain grey packets.

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27
Jan

Inebriated by art: I quit (Daily Local News)

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Did you know that I quit smoking? My lungs say thank you and please pass a smoke. Twenty one days really doesn’t sound like a lot of time but when counted in puffs of smoke it is like a whole story told in smoke signals by a drunken Indian chief on an extremely cloudy and windy day.

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Authors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann make the claim in their book 'Game Change', to be released tomorrow.

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Baby & Me-Tobacco Free, a pregnancy smoking cessation program now in Summit Staff Writer Rocky Mountain Health Plans (RMHP) Foundation has expanded its program to help pregnant women quit smoking. As the second year of the program is implemented in 2009, 22 more counties will be participating. Pregnant smokers can be referred to the program by their local physician, clinic, health department ...

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Baby & Me-Tobacco Free, a pregnancy smoking cessation program now in Summit Staff Writer Rocky Mountain Health Plans (RMHP) Foundation has expanded its program to help pregnant women quit smoking. As the second year of the program is implemented in 2009, 22 more counties will be participating. Pregnant smokers can be referred to the program by their local physician, clinic, health department ...

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