Smoking Cessation: It Is Never Too Late

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.

It's never too late to quit smoking.

Improved patient outcome with smoking cessation: when is it too late?

Smoking is the leading modifiable risk factor for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cardiovascular disease (CVD), and lung cancer. Smoking cessation is the only proven way of modifying the natural course of COPD. It is also the most effective way of reducing the risk for myocardial infarction and lung cancer. However, the full benefits of tobacco treatment may not be realized until ...

Ondine's curse--never too late.

a normal life span. It has recently been shown that CCHS confers risk for adverse neurocognitive outcome [3]. Visuoperceptual reasoning and clerical/ visuographic speed appear particularly vulnerable. In this issue of IMAJ, Cohen-Cymberknoh and colleagues [4] present an interesting and unusual case of a 12 year old girl with late-onset CCHS that was suspected and diagnosed only after she failed...