Tremor is among the acute effects of nicotine exposure. Published studies have focused on smoking-related postural (static) hand tremor rather than kinetic tremor (tremor during hand use), and gender differences in smoking-related tremor have not been examined. In a group of adults who were sampled from a population (mean+/-S.D.=65.7+/-11.5 years, range=18-92 years), the investigator assessed w...

BACKGROUND Cigarette smoking is a major contributor to the risk of acute myocardial infarction and the subsequent morbidity and mortality. Physicians can play an important role in smoking cessation among patients with AMI because of their frequent contact with the patient during the event. OBJECTIVES To study the prevalence of smoking, age, localization of coronary occlusion, mortality and ra...

Increasing tobacco screening in health care settings is a Healthy People 2020 objective. This report looks at adult cigarette smokers in the general household population and whether a doctor or other health professional had talked to them about their smoking in the past 12 months. About one-half of all adult cigarette smokers (51.2%) had a doctor or other health professional talk to them about ...

Cigarette smoking continues to be a major public health problem, and while smoking rates in men have shown some decrease over the last few decades, smoking rates among girls and young women are increasing. Practically all of the important aspects of cigarette smoking and many effects of nicotine are sexually dimorphic (reviewed by Pogun and Yararbas, 2009). Women become addicted more easily tha...

BACKGROUND Relationships between smoking and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in the general population remain unclear. OBJECTIVES To quantify the independent associations between smoking patterns and HRQoL and to identify any threshold or non-linear tendencies in these associations. METHODS A national representative, cross-sectional household survey of the French general non institut...

BACKGROUND Smoking is a risk factor for several diseases. Physicians are role models for their patients. Physicians who smoke underestimate the health risks of smoking and may be less likely to offer advice to help their patients to quit. The aim of this study was to: provide an overview of smoking behaviour among Estonian physicians; assess the relationship between smoking and ischaemic heart ...

Several clinical trials of both behavioural and pharmacological treatments across Europe and the US have reported lower smoking cessation rates in women than in men, while population data and data from smokers attending routine stop-smoking services show little or no gender differences in outcome. Data from countries with a large gender difference in smoking prevalence can clarify whether self-...