Smoking Cessation
AHA launches ‘timely’ tobacco treatment professional certification
Quitting smoking or other tobacco products can be difficult under the best circumstances. Cardiologists can help patients who want to quit, but data show more training is needed on optimal strategies and available therapies.
Top 10 in 2023: Women in Oncology’s most-read stories of the year
Women in oncology continued to break barriers, unveil new research and accomplish goals in 2023.
VIDEO: Dhruv Kazi, MD, MSc, MS, highlights importance of underutilized cardiac rehab
PHILADELPHIA — In this Healio video exclusive, Dhruv S. Kazi, MD, MSc, MS, discusses the importance of cardiac rehabilitation, noting that a comprehensive program is “more than just supervised exercise.”
Smoking cessation significantly reduces excess mortality within a decade
A recent study showed that excess cardiovascular and respiratory mortality among former smokers was less than half of that among continuing smokers within the first decade of smoking cessation.
Hyperinflation, COPD screening, smoking cessation among changes in 2024 GOLD report
To reflect advances in COPD diagnosis and treatment, the 2024 Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease report features both new and revised sections.
Tobacco cessation program in primary care cost-effective, increased cessation rates
A tobacco cessation program was cost-effective and increased smoking cessation rates by 7.4%, a study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine showed.
Study: Most teens who use e-cigarettes try to quit without help
Most adolescents who use e-cigarettes have attempted to quit in the past year but usually without seeking outside help, according to study findings published in Pediatrics.
High likelihood for smoking cessation with e-cigarettes, varenicline, cytisine
Among various smoking cessation therapies, the highest likelihood for quitting was found with use of e-cigarettes, varenicline or cytisine, according to results published in Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.
High abstinence likelihood with varenicline plus nicotine replacement therapy lozenges
Hospitalized smokers who received varenicline plus nicotine replacement therapy lozenges had an increased likelihood for abstinence, according to a presentation at the European Respiratory Society International Congress.
Underage smoking increases nicotine dependence, making cessation more difficult
People who started smoking before the legal age smoked more cigarettes per day and had greater nicotine dependence and lower rates of smoking cessation vs. those who initiated after the legal age, researchers reported.