Stop Smoking News Archive

15-May-2009

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Madeleine?s stop smoking aim (icWales)

Health Editor Madeleine Brindley stopped smoking five weeks ago with the help of pharmacists at Boots, in Wood Street, Cardiff.

Stop-smoking program demand skyrockets - Wed, 13 May 2009 PST (The Spokesman-Review)

Demand for free nicotine patches and other stop-smoking aids skyrocketed in Idaho after the federal government hiked tobacco taxes by 62 cents this spring.

Smoking Interferes With Recovery From Alcohol-related Brain Damage (Science Daily)

Excessive drinking can damage the brain, especially the frontal and parietal cortices. Some of this damage is reversible with abstinence from alcohol. New findings show that chronic cigarette smoking is associated with poor recovery of brain blood flow during abstinence from long-term heavy drinking.

NH begins effort to get mothers to stop smoking (Boston Globe)

New Hampshire is using Mother's Day weekend to start a new effort to help mothers stop smoking.

Higher taxes mean more attempts to stop smoking (The Pantagraph)

SPRINGFIELD -- Calls to the state's tobacco quit line suggest more people are at least trying to stop smoking after federal taxes jumped earlier this year.

Book Review: Your Best You: Discovering and Developing the Strengths God Gave You by Bonnie Grove (Blogcritics.org)

Lose weight, stop smoking, conquer procrastination and more using the strengths with which you were created.

Why do some pregnant women find it difficult to quit smoking? (BBC News)

A gene can explain why some women find it more difficult to stop smoking during pregnancy, say UK researchers.

Want to lose weight, stop smoking? (Bureau County Republican)

PRINCETON ? A husband and wife team from Princeton are trying to help others lose weight or stop smoking through the user of lasers.