Smoking cessation services: use them or lose them

Stop-smoking medications: who uses them, who misuses them, and who is misinformed about them?

This study assessed smokers' beliefs about nicotine and the safety of nicotine medications and examined how these beliefs influence the use of nicotine medications. The data for this paper came from a nationally representative, random-digit-dialed telephone survey of 1,046 adults (18 years of age and older) current cigarette smokers conducted between May and September 2001. Respondents were que...

Wear them, forget them.

Smoking During Pregnancy and Smoking Cessation Services

Linda Bauld Journal of Smoking Cessation / Volume 4 / Supplement S1 / March 2009, pp 2 ­ 5 DOI: 10.1375/jsc.4.supp.2, Published online: 21 February 2012 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1834261200000736 How to cite this article: Linda Bauld (2009). Smoking During Pregnancy and Smoking Cessation Services. Journal of Smoking Cessation, 4, pp 2­5 doi:10.1375/jsc.4.supp...

Slowing them down will make them lose: a role for attine ant crop fungus in defending pupae against infections?

Fungus-growing ants (Attini) have evolved an obligate dependency upon a basidiomycete fungus that they cultivate as their food. Less well known is that the crop fungus is also used by many attine species to cover their eggs, larvae and pupae. The adaptive functional significance of this brood covering is poorly understood. One hypothesis to account for this behaviour is that it is part of the p...

Off-label prescriptions: how to identify them, frame them, announce them and monitor them in practice?

Following the Mediator crisis and the passage of the Health and Safety Law of December 2011, off-label prescriptions are a real concern shared by all those involved in healthcare system. Off-label, in the strictest sense of the term, is defined as all prescriptions that do not correspond to the summary of product characteristics (SPC), particularly those that fail to comply with the indications...