Addictive tobacco habit, both oral use and smoking, continues to be a major public health problem despite the availability of pharmacotherapeutic cessation aids. Long lasting abstinence rates following tobacco cessation measures remain less than optimal Several alternative treatments have been studied for tobacco cessation including natural products, such as Avena sativa1, lobeline2, mint snuff...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the safety and efficacy as a tool of smoking cessation of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes), directly comparing users of e-cigarettes only, smokers of tobacco cigarettes only, and smokers of both. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. Final results are expected in 2019, but given the urgency of data to support policies on electronic smoking, we report the results of the 12...

1418 F or decades, advocacy for tobacco control has been a priority of the American Heart Association (AHA). In partnership with major public health organizations, the association has made major strides in tobacco use prevention and cessation by prioritizing evidence-based strategies such as increasing excise taxes; passing comprehensive smoke-free air laws; facilitating US Food and Drug Admini...

BACKGROUND Cigar and e-cigarette use is becoming increasingly common among US tobacco users and the Food and Drug Administration recently asserted regulatory jurisdiction over these products, among others, in May 2016. Research on tobacco dependence among users of these products is limited, however. We therefore examined several symptoms of dependence and cessation intentions among adult cigare...

Tobacco control policies, including excise and sales tax, smoking bans, and public health campaigns, have had an important influence on reducing rates of tobacco use (Wilson et al., 2012). There is also some evidence that those engaged in smoking cessation treatment have improved response rates within the context of such polices (Schillo et al., 2012), which is an interesting finding in need of...

background: cigarette smoking is the largest preventable cause of death worldwide. no systematic review is available on the situation of the smoking in iran, so we decided to provide an overview of the studies in the field of smoking in iranian populations. methods: published persian-language papers of all types until 2009 indexed in the iranmedex (http://www.iranmedex.com) and magiran (http://...

T he statistics are staggering. Tobacco is by far the greatest risk factor associated with cancer deaths in Canada. 1 Tobacco use causes approximately 30% of all cancer deaths. 2 The Canadian Cancer Society estimates there were 132,100 new cases of cancer and 65,000 deaths from cancer in Canada in 2000. 3 Lung cancer is still the leading cause of cancer death for both men and women. 3 There are...

The Community Preventive Services Task Force recently posted new information about two recommendations: 1) “Reducing Tobacco Use and Secondhand Smoke Exposure: Reducing Out-of-Pocket Costs for Evidence-Based Tobacco Cessation Treatments,” available at http://www.thecommunityguide.org/tobacco/outofpocketcosts.html, and 2) “Reducing Tobacco Use and Secondhand Smoke Exposure: Quitline Intervention...

BACKGROUND Tobacco smoking and its consequences are a serious public health problem in Romania. Evidence-based data on factors associated with successful smoking cessation are crucial to optimize tobacco control. The aim of the study was to determine the sociodemographic and other factors associated with smoking cessation success among adults. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data was from a sample of 4...