Stop Smoking News Archive

11-Oct-2006

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Opiate Blocker Helps Women Stop Smoking (Psychiatric Times)

CHICAGO, Oct. 9 -- The opiate blocker Depade (naltrexone), when added to behavioral therapy and nicotine patches, can help women quit smoking, researchers here found. But men gained no benefit.

Heroin Addict Medicine May Help Women Stop Smoking (WCBS-TV New York)

A new study says a drug used to treat alcoholics and heroin addicts may actually also help women looking to kick their smoking habit.

Employers, insurers fight about stop-smoking tab (The Columbus Dispatch)

Employers and health-insurance companies aren?t seeing eye to eye about coverage of smokers, according to industry experts.

Smoking ban in France faces a host of questions (International Herald Tribune)

How much smoke, and where, has been a hot topic in France since Sunday, when Prime Minister Dominque de Villepin announced that the country would ban smoking in public places.

Drug May Help Women Stop Smoking (Science Daily)

Adding the opiate blocker naltrexone to the combination of behavioral therapy and nicotine patches boosted smoking cessation rates for women by almost 50 percent when assessed after eight weeks of treatment, but made no difference for men. Naltrexone helped reduce the craving for cigarettes and lessened the discomforts of withdrawal for women in the study. It also reduced the weight gain often

Drug May Help Women Stop Smoking (Newswise)

Adding the opiate blocker naltrexone to the combination of behavioral therapy and nicotine patches boosted smoking cessation rates for women by almost 50 percent when assessed after 8 weeks of treatment, but made no difference for men. Naltrexone helped reduce the craving and lessened the discomforts of withdrawal for women. It also reduced weight gain.

Drug may help women stop smoking (EurekAlert!)

Adding the opiate blocker naltrexone to the combination of behavioral therapy and nicotine patches boosted smoking cessation rates for women by almost 50 percent when assessed after eight weeks of treatment, but made no difference for men, report researchers from the University of Chicago in the October 2006 issue of the journal Nicotine and Tobacco Research.

Kicking the habit (Bridlington Today)

SMOKERS in Bridlington were offered the chance to stub out for the final time when the NHS Stop Smoking bus parked up in King Street. (09/10/2006 09:14:42)

Man lashed out over smoking ban (BBC News)

A man pleads guilty to breaking a security guard's jaw after he was told to stop smoking in a shopping centre.

Target of shooting had other crime links (Dayton Daily News)

DAYTON ? A Dayton man who was the target of a shooting Sunday on Gettysburg Avenue was also arrested in a homicide this year and questioned about a 2005 homicide.