Background. Tobacco smoking cessation interventions in the oncology population are an important part of comprehensive treatment plan. Objectives. To evaluate through a systematic review smoking cessation interventions and cessation rates in cancer patients. Search Strategy. The literature was searched using Medline, EMBASE, and the Cochrane Library (inception to November 2010) by three independ...

AIMS Smoking is a major risk factor for cardiovascular complications among patients with diabetes. Hospitalization has been shown to enhance cessation rates. The purpose of this study was to compare 6-month post-hospitalization tobacco cessation rates among US veterans with and without diabetes. METHODS This was a longitudinal study among inpatient veterans who used tobacco in the past month ...

BACKGROUND In Korea, nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) has been widely used in government-led, public health center-based smoking cessation services since 2004 and varenicline has become available from 2007 but without reimbursement. In this study which used a series of nationwide cross-sectional surveys in Korea performed from 2005 to 2011, we examined the prevalence of smoking cessation medi...

To investigate the timecourse of cardiovascular changes immediately after smoking cessation, 16 subjects wore ambulatory monitors on alternate days during a 1-week residential smoking cessation program. Heart rate was significantly elevated at the time of cessation, then declined steadily until 6 h after cessation, when it reached the level of subsequent nonsmoking days. Systolic and diastolic ...

BACKGROUND Secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure of children due to parental tobacco use is a particularly prevalent health issue and is associated with adverse health outcomes. Following the US Clinical Practice guidelines, pediatricians in the United States deliver 5A's (ask, advise, assess, assist, and arrange) counseling to smoking parents which has proven to be effective. We examined Chinese ped...

BACKGROUND Tobacco smoking irritates and damages the respiratory tract and contributes to a higher risk of developing lung emphysema. At present, smoking cessation is the only effective treatment for reducing the progression of lung emphysema, however, there is hardly anything known about the effects of smoking cessation on cytokine and chemokine levels in the airways. To the best of our knowle...

BACKGROUND Hard core smokers have been studied in many countries but only a few trials have compared the effectiveness of smoking cessation with other smokers. The objective of this study was to compare the frequencies of success in smoking cessation between hard-core smokers and other smokers. METHODS Data were collected in Clermont-Ferrand from the Emile Roux dispensary 'Pneumology and Toba...

Smoking cessation has been shown to be cost effective, even in older individuals. It is therefore important that this health promotion is not missed in this vulnerable group.