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Smoking Cessation
Employers ponder tough tactics to Halt
Smoking - June 17, 2008
"We're talking about
ending an epidemic. This is a global pandemic," said Dr. Julie
Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, likening Weyers' approach to controlling an outbreak of
disease.
About 45 million
Americans, 4 million of whom live in
California
, smoke cigarettes
despite more than three decades of public efforts to encourage
people to quit.
A
Statement from GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare on 2008 update to the US
Public Health Service Guideline on Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence - May 7, 2008
We believe the 2008 update is of particular
significance as it includes the addition of the Commit nicotine lozenge which
can reliably increase long-term smoking abstinence. The Commit lozenge is
approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to help withdrawal symptoms
and cravings associated with quitting smoking, has a groundbreaking dosage
selector (Time to First Cigarette) so a smoker can choose the strength that's
right for them and provides low, safe doses of nicotine to ease withdrawal from
cigarettes.
See
Your Doc to Stop Smoking - November 29, 2007
Two researchers from the Centre for
Addiction and Mental Health published a review in the November 20th issue of
the Canadian Medical Association Journal, of several hundred smoking studies.
They conclude that success in quitting depends on a combo of meds and
non-pharmacotherapy, but that a key component is the role of the physician.
Just advising a patient to quit, actually doubles their quit rates. And long
term follow-up, at least one year, is critical the researchers say.
PHARMA
MARKET: Pfizer Anti-Smoking Drug Off To Strong Start -
October 3, 2007
Despite
recent setbacks, Pfizer Inc. (PFE) has had some successes including the new
smoking-cessation drug Chantix. Before it went on sale last year, Pfizer
predicted annual revenue would exceed $1 billion in 2010. The numbers indicate
Chantix could reach that target early despite spotty patient-insurance coverage
so far. A 5% price increase in July and a new consumer-advertising campaign
could give an extra boost to sales.
Smokers More Likely to Develop Dementia -
September 4, 2004
Current smokers are 50 percent more
likely to develop Alzheimer's disease or dementia than people who don't smoke
or who gave up smoking, a Dutch report says.
What
Smoking Cost Me - August
17, 2007
Bad breath, yellow skin, and
increased risk for stroke, osteoporosis, and cancer. And the
financial costs of
smoking are pretty ugly, too.
Breaking the Addiction: Finding the Motivation to
Quit Smoking - July 20, 2007
It
comes as no surprise; you've heard the statistics before. Smoking is the number
one cause of preventable death and disease in the
United States
, yet each year millions of Americans continue to light
up. So why is it that you can't seem to break the habit that you know is so bad
for you? Because smoking is part addiction, part habit and it's not an easy
process.
Tech is good for you:
Quit smoking with ludicrous gadgets - July
9, 2007
Nobody
likes smokers. Once they were trendy, twiddling their cigarettes with disdain,
force-feeding innocent bystanders with carcinogenic death, but now look at
them: since the public smoking ban of 1 July these outcasts are forced to
huddle in urine-soaked alleyways with only rats, rain and respiratory illness
for company.
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