Crohn's disease and smoking: Is it ever too late to quit?

Crohn's disease and smoking: is it ever too late to quit?

BACKGROUND Smoking increases CD risk. The aim was to determine if smoking cessation at, prior to, or following, CD diagnosis affects medication use, disease phenotypic progression and/or surgery. METHODS Data on CD patients with disease for ≥5 yrs were collected retrospectively including the Montreal classification, smoking history, CD-related abdominal surgeries, family history, medication u...

It's never too late to quit smoking.

Smoking Cessation: It Is Never Too Late

Public health and smoking are old enemies because smoking is among the 10 leading causes of ill health on a global scale and is also possible to prevent, as repeatedly reported (1). In both developed and developing countries, smoking takes its heavy toll of lives every year, both directly and indirectly, through exposure to passively inhaled tobacco smoke (2) or via feto-placental effects. Much...

Smoking cessation in heart failure: it is never too late.

Is it too late to treat me?

We present the case of a 76-year-old Caucasian man with a type 1 endoleak at the proximal edge of a thoracic stentgraft (Talent 38 mm × 114 mm) detected four years after endovascular treatment of a large symptomatic saccular aneurysm in the distal aortic arch. The patient refused any interventional treatment for the endoleak and remained on medical therapy with no evolving symptoms. Surveillanc...