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Effects On Smokers - Articles
Some insights on the COPD’s cough and “smoker’s cough”: a myth?
by
Dr. Gemzel H.
Posted
Sun 29 Aug 2010 6:07am
Pulmonary Disease, it lasts longer that if the disease were an acute condition. Often, smokers tend to call it “smoker’s cough” which is true but requires a careful assessment. Cough in the smoker goes beyond a pure irritation of the airway. The smoker’s cough can be symptom of the airway obstruction. The trapped air inside the lungs (due to airway obstruction
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Green tea reduces lung cancer risk in smokers and non-smokers
by
Dr. John Z.
Posted
Tue 12 Jan 2010 12:00am
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AACR.org - Drinking green tea could reduce the effect of cigarette smoking on lung cancer. Results of this hospital-based, randomized study conducted in Taiwan were presented... with cancer risk.
Among smokers and non-smokers, those who did not drink green tea had a 5.16-fold increased risk of lung cancer compared with those who drank at least one cup
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Antidepressant Patch Doesn't Help Smokers Quit
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Medline Plus
Posted
Fri 03 Sep 2010 1:20pm
for smokers - did better with selegiline. This effect would make sense, the authors note, because dopamine promotes sensations of reward in the brain, and selegiline facilitates... administered along with the patches seemed to be the most effective treatment of all, the researchers note.
"Smokers in the placebo group did better
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What Is Smokers Breath And Can A Mint Help
by
Shilah C. Azib
Posted
Sun 04 Jul 2010 4:06am
If you smoke, you have bad breath. These two facts almost seem to be connected at the hip, and thus far there has not been a remedy that effectively masks the breath of the affected smoker. For the longest time it was surmised that the bad breath only originated at the time of actually inhaling the smoke, and as soon as the cigarette
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Want to Reduce your Risk of a Stroke?Don’t Marry a Smoker
by
Nick B.
Posted
Fri 21 Nov 2008 4:30pm
Even if you don’t smoke yourself, research has found that if you are married to a smoker it will significantly raise your risk of a stroke.
The team form Harvard... Medicine found the risk rose by up to 72 percent for some non-smokers.
Since the introduction of smoking bans in public places across the UK, the home is now the most likely
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Evidence That Dissolvable Tobacco Works for American Smokers
by
Brad R.
Posted
Mon 25 Jan 2010 6:39am
by Matthew Carpenter and Kevin Gray in the online edition of Nicotine and Tobacco Research .
Carpenter and Gray randomly assigned 31 smokers who were uninterested in quitting to receive Ariva or Stonewall, dissolvable smokeless products from Star Tobacco (that I have recommended to smokers for many years here and here ), or to continue smoking cigarettes
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Brain Difference Found in Smokers
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Medline Plus
Posted
Tue 02 Nov 2010 11:00am
had been a smoker.
However, a direct cause-and-effect isn't clear, said the team at the Charite Universitatsmedizin Berlin and of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt...
TUESDAY, Nov. 2 (HealthDay News) -- A certain area of the cerebral cortex is thinner in smokers than in people who have never smoked, finds a new study.
The cerebral cortex
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I'm a ex-smoker. I used to smoke ...
by
Sensationally Red
Posted
Sat 13 Jun 2009 12:00am
2 Comments
on the bar scene, but I live in a largely blue-collar neighborhood and many of my friends either smoke, or are oddly tolerant of smokers. The ban will officially go into effect on Dec...
I'm a ex-smoker. I used to smoke like a dragon. I didn't smoke a cigarette...I consumed it in one swift inhalation, deftly extracting as much nicotine in the shortest time
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New Drug For Smokers
by
Dirk H.
Posted
Fri 12 Sep 2008 11:29am
smokers, Chantix outperformed both placebos and Zyban. Common side effects included nausea, headache and vomiting. Two studies published in the Journal of the American Medical...
First there was Wellbutrin, an antidepressant which helped cut down on the cravings and nicotine withdrawal symptoms for many addicted smokers when it was marketed
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