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12-Dec-2007

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NHS selects ZOOMtxt software to enable mobile ?stop smoking? campaign (e-Consultancy)

NHS selects ZOOMtxt software to enable mobile ?stop smoking? campaign "Txt ur way 2 a smoke free life" Campaign runs on ZOOMtxt Kingston upon Thames, 4th December, 2007. smoking kills. And smokers wanting to quit can now text their way to a healthier life, as Hampshire Primary Care Trust?s (PCT)...

Stop Smoking Services Are Reducing The UK's Health Gap (Medical News Today)

According to a new study, people in less affluent areas of the UK are quitting smoking in larger numbers than their better off neighbours. Of the 1.5 million smokers supported by NHS stop smoking services between 2003 and 2006, researchers found that smokers from poorer areas were using these services and successfully quitting more often than those from more affluent communities. [click link for ...

Stop smoking NHS clinics 'work' (BBC News)

NHS 'stop smoking' clinics have been hailed a success after figures showed particular success in poorer areas.

Blue Cross' Stop Smoking Phone Coaching Enrollments Jumped in October (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

The state's largest health plan, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota , recorded that more of its members sought help to quit smoking in October, according to enrollment data reported by Blue Cross' telephone coaching quitline.

You can stop smoking (Rapid City Journal)

RAPID CITY ? As one who started smoking at age 12 but stopped a decade ago, Clayton Hieb has two words to say about tobacco: ?It stinks.?

Speedway woman creates regimen to stop smoking (WTHR Indianapolis)

A Speedway woman has found a combination of exercise and medication to help her kick the smoking habit.

Stop smoking during holidays (The Record Searchlight)

An eight-week course for those who are quitting smoking during the holidays is being offered from 6 to 8 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays through Dec. 19 at Mercy Regional Cancer Center, 2175 Rosaline Ave. in Redding.

State Supreme Court ruling may help refine smoking ban (The Olympian)

Two years after Washington's indoor-smoking ban took effect, Thurston County has processed 94 complaints of violations, but Frankie's Sports Bar & Grill is the only tavern where the complaints are unresolved.