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Press Release_Quit&Win
health, Ontario, contest, quit smoking, health unit, smokers, quitting, contest planning team, prize, Blue Mountain Honda, Officer, winners, Cochrane District, Porcupine Health Unit, partners. Timmins (Ontario), December 19, 2002 -- Over 15,000 Ontario smokers, 520 of which were from the Cochrane District, had a good enough reason to quit smoking and eight of them were announced as winners of the third province-wide Quit Smoking 2002 Contest at a special celebration in Toronto. Dr. Colin D'Cunha, Chief Medical Officer of Health for Ontario congratulated the winners for their commitment to a healthier lifestyle. While there can only be eight prizewinners, there are over 15,000 smokers in Ontario who have taken action to make a personal change, who have made a commitment to quitting. The Porcupine Health Unit is an organization that works with communities in our area to promote and protect health. 89990_64 smoking, heart, risk, quit, cigarettes, lung, smoke, quitting, blood, lung cancer, Trainer, health, nonsmokers, heart disease, heart attacks. Develop some techniques to help them quit. Harmful effects of smoking include: Lung cancer, the leading cause of cancer deaths Breathing difficulties and coughing from chronic bronchitis and emphysema Heart attacks, heart disease, and risk of stroke ---Smoking raises blood pressure and heart rate, clogs and narrows arteries, and replaces oxygen in blood with carbon monoxide, which gives smokers twice the risk of fatal heart attacks as nonsmokers. 2 weeks to 3 months: Lung function and blood circulation improve. List reasons why you smoke and why you want to quit. Buy cigarettes by the pack, not the carton, switching brands each time. 3hr_smoking http://www.motivatehealthyhabits.com/pdfs/3hr_smoking.pdf patient, motivation, reasons, resistance, decision balance, practitioner, training purposes, health, feeling, role plays, ambivalence, interventions, responsibility, double-sided reflection, smoking. 2. Think of a patient who smokes cigarettes. 3. After making a list of benefits and concerns about behavior change (page 4), please rate resistance and motivation scores (page 5), again from the patient's perspective. Fill in the decision balance below using smoking as your example. The practitioner helped the patient think about what his/her life would be like if he/she developed a future complication now. The practitioner helped the patient see that he/she could obtain the benefits from his/her risk behavior in alternative ways. The practitioner helped the patient change his/her perceptions about benefits and concerns on his/her decision balance. PR11.07.01 quit, restaurants, Health, quit smoking, smoke-free, Oak Park, American, Public Health, Polyak, American Cancer Society, disease, death, smoke, according, environment. The Oak Park Department of Public Health, in cooperation with the American Cancer Society, is encouraging restaurants to go smoke-free on Nov. 15 for the Great American Smokeout, a day set aside to help smokers quit cigarettes for at least one day in hopes they will quit forever. "This is a great opportunity for restaurants in our community to show their support for their customers who are trying to quit smoking by providing them a healthy, smoke-free environment for at least one day," said Health Director Georgeen Polyak, who noted that more people quit smoking on this day than any other day of the year. Vaccine nicotine, vaccine, Janda, smoking, smokers, quit, Health24, cocaine, medication, news, cocaine molecules, Janda notes, brain, nicotine addiction, Fitness. Although it has only been tested in rats and mice, a new nicotine vaccine shows promise in ending nicotine addiction and helping smokers kick the habit. Institute in California, USA. Vaccine could act as crutch The vaccine could act as a crutch for people trying to stop smoking by preventing nicotine from reaching the brain, Janda says. About 12 years ago, Janda's team developed a successful cocaine vaccine, but when they first developed a nicotine vaccine, the researchers found it wasn't very effective. He notes that it's possible that, "like [the] nicotine patch and gum and the antidepressant medication used to help smokers quit, the vaccine might be helpful to some but not others who are attempting to quit smoking." Quit_Chat_Dec_02 quit, Mäori, Quit Group, smoking, programme, health, committee, plan, Manager, cessation, Zealand, smokefree, kids programme, community, Terehia. (2003-2007)". We think the draft is a very good one and look forward to seeing the final version when the feedback from everyone has been incorporated. It's valuable to have the literature review giving us evidence of what has been tried in other places and how well it worked. Like other people, we found it difficult when it came to the prioritisation, as we felt most of the strategies outlined in the plan were ones that should be implemented. While tobacco control was identified as a key priority by the Minister of Health and received a boost in funding two years ago, we believe this whole health area is still grossly underfunded in proportion to the burden on health created by tobacco. Areas which were not dealt with in the plan which we would like to see included are an examination of quitting behaviour, especially issues involving nicotine addiction and smoking relapse. Those of us who work in smoking cessation know both factors are a key to how successful people are in quitting and therefore they affect smoking prevalence rates. nov98 nicotine, Arizona, AHSC, smokers, epilepsy, tobacco, medication, Health, smoking, Arizona Program, physician, Tucson, Zyban, quit, symptoms. Olympic runner died of epilepsy in her sleep. smoking have failed, including using the nicotine patch and nicotine gum. smoking cessation are being evaluated by the Arizona Program for Nicotine and Tobacco Research. While nicotine patches and nicotine gum help adult smokers kick the habit, these treatments have been shown to be ineffective for most kids. Researchers hope a new stop-smoking medication, Zyban, may provide some relief for younger tobacco smokers. A plastic nicotine inhaler that the smoker puffs to receive nicotine also is being studied by the Arizona Program for Nictotine and Tobacco Research. Participants will attend 13 weekly visits at the program's research clinic over a period of one year and will be on medication for 12 to 13 weeks. IQ01_Web_Flyer video, quit, smoking, cessation, quitting, tobacco, educate, adult, online, clip, nicotine, shipping, techniques, human body, smokers. This video, produced in conjunction with the British Columbia Lung Association is an integral part of any cessation program. Whether you show this video to educate smokers about the effects of tobacco on the human body, the various techniques to quit smoking, or as a motivational video that you show over and over again, you will find this informative video a dynamic and invaluable addition to your program. An in-depth discussion of the various methods of quitting, and techniques to help you use these methods to their full benefit are also discussed. "Great information for an adult audience---these types of videos are very hard to find. tobacco http://www.health.state.pa.us/pdf/hpa/stats/risks/1996/tobacco.pdf smokers, adults, smoking, cigarette, quit, former smokers, college, age, Pennsylvania Adults, education, OBJECTIVES, Tobacco, females, males, income. 24 percent of Pennsylvania adults indicated that they were regularly smoking cigarettes in 1996. NOTE: The national year 2000 objective for all adults is 15 percent. Only 11 percent of the oldest adults (aged 65+) said that they were smokers -- significantly lower than for any other younger age group. Adults with less than a high school education smoked at a significantly higher rate (34 percent) compared to college graduates and also those with some college (22 percent). In the 1996 survey, 28 percent of males identified themselves as former smokers compared to only 19 percent of females. Among those who were smoking in 1996, 45 percent had quit for at least one day in the past year. SmkgCessationTools smoking, quit, smoking cessation, patient, nicotine, intervention, successful, NRT, Psychotherapy, Review, quitting, health, American, abstinence, patch. Arrange follow-up one to three months after quitting. NRT is Category D for pregnancy, but some sources indicate that fetus is exposed to much less nicotine through NRT than smoking. Packaging: contraindicated for recent acute MI, unstable angina, severe arrythmias, and pregnancy. Nicotine gum increases successful cessation rates by 40-60% (Wewers, et al. 1998) and is available OTC. Less expensive if used sparingly, but usually requires more frequent administration than patch. Nicotine patch doubles 6-12 month abstinence rate & is available OTC. eedback: give patient information about the consequences and risks of the target behavior. American Lung Association Freedom From Smoking (FFS) classes: call 1-800-LUNG-USA.
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