Posts Tagged ‘Medicine’

6
May

Want to quit smoking ? Try acupuncture or hypnosis – Baltimore Sun

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USA TODAY

Want to quit smoking ? Try acupuncture or hypnosis
Baltimore Sun
Researchers, whose findings appeared in the American Journal of Medicine, said that there are still plenty of questions, including exactly how effective alternative therapies might be and how they measure up against conventional methods to quit smoking ...
Some support for quit-smoking alternatives Reuters
Acupuncture, hypnosis may help smokers; IVF risks studied USA TODAY

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6
May

Want to quit smoking ? Try acupuncture or hypnosis

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Acupuncture and hypnosis have been promoted as drug-free ways to help smokers kick the habit, and there is some evidence that they work, according to a research review that looked at 14 international studies. Researchers, whose findings appeared in the American Journal of Medicine, said that there are still plenty of questions, including exactly how effective alternative therapies might be and ...

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22
Apr

Want To Quit Smoking? Try Exercising Daily For 30 Minutes. – Asian Scientist Magazine

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Asian Scientist Magazine

Want To Quit Smoking? Try Exercising Daily For 30 Minutes.
Asian Scientist Magazine
By Samantha Chan | Health & Medicine New data suggests that exercise may help smokers quit and remain smoke-free. Moreover, exercise helps both smokers and non-smokers live longer. AsianScientist (Apr. 23, 2012) – Exercise may help smokers quit and ...
Exercise 'helps smokers kick the butt` Zee News
Exercise helps smokers to quit smoking, to remain smoke-free and to reduce the ... Science Codex
Exercise Will Help You Quit Smoking Gizmodo
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Babble (blog)

If You Had to Lose Weight or Quit Smoking to Get Pregnant, Would You? 46% of ...
Babble (blog)
The Journal of Advanced Nursing reports that 30 percent of smokers included in the study refused to quit, even though the American Society for Reproductive Medicine states that “virtually all scientific studies support the conclusion that smoking has ...

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QuitSmoking.com Announces the Quit Smoking Academic Scholarship to Support Nicotine Addiction Research Smoking and nicotine addiction occurs when a person forms an uncontrollable dependence on cigarettes to the point where stopping smoking will cause a severe emotional, mental or physical reaction. The Quit Smoking scholarship supports graduate or undergraduate students studying medicine ...

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9
Apr

Study: Women struggle more to quit – Times Daily

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Study: Women struggle more to quit
Times Daily
Dickens said oftentimes women who try to quit smoking are more likely to relapse than men. According to a recent Yale University School of Medicine study, that could be due, at least in part, to the fact that when men smoke, their brains create up to ...

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1
Apr

China to include quit-smoking drug in basic medicine – People’s Daily Online

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Bloomberg

China to include quit-smoking drug in basic medicine
People's Daily Online
Beijing, April 1 (People's Daily Online)-- China will take quit-smoking consulting as a basic health care service and include the quit-smoking drug in the basic medicine list, Health Minister Chen Zhu said Saturday. China considers smoking control as ...
Tobacco warnings increase China Daily
Sarah Griswold: Opportunities big and small to improve health Knoxville News Sentinel
Electronic Cigarettes & Health Reveals Possible Risks of E-cigarettes SBWire (press release)

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Smoking cessation programme involving acupuncture well received
7thSpace Interactive (press release)
The programme, which is subvented by the Department of Health (DH), has helped many smokers to quit the habit since its launch in April 2010. The programme is a joint effort by the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Pok Oi Hospital ...

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7
Mar

Smoking Ban Linked To Huge Decrease Of Preterm Deliveries, Scotland

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A study in this week's PLoS Medicine , shows that since Scotland has introduced a national, comprehensive smoke-free legislation, the numbers of preterm deliveries and small for dates (gestational age) infants has dropped substantially. The findings, by research leader Jill Pell from the University of Glasgow, come in support of the growing evidence that a smoke-free legislation provides a wide ...

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5
Mar

Quit Smoking Patches Not as Effective during Pregnancy Says Medical Study

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QuitFullStop reports on a recent discovery in the world of medicine that could call a halt to the use of one of the most relied upon quit smoking methods, nicotine patches, during pregnancy. (PRWeb March 04, 2012) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/3/prweb9244382.htm

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