BACKGROUND A strategy to reduce the number of smoking-related deaths is to encourage the involvement of health-care professionals in tobacco-use prevention activities and cessation counseling. Previous studies have shown that physicians' smoking status affects their efforts to provide smoking cessation counseling. This study investigates the association between pulmonologists' tobacco use and t...

Smoking is the greatest single preventable cause of death in Ireland • All six Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) products and bupropion are available on GMS. Choice should be made on the smokers personal preference, tolerance for side effects for each product and dependence on nicotine • Combination NRT may be more effective than using single products. NRT is not contraindicated in patients wi...

OBJECTIVE Smoking cessation during pregnancy is a modifiable intervention that can improve maternal and neonatal outcomes. Encouraging smoking cessation is an assessed measure of the Meaningful Use incentives to ensure best practices with the increased use of the electronic medical record (EMR). Physician EMR prompts have been used shown to be successful with preventive care but there is a pauc...

BACKGROUND Smoking cessation can significantly reduce the risk of developing smoking-related diseases. Several face-to-face and web-based treatments have shown to be effective. Blending of web-based and face-to-face treatment is expected to improve smoking cessation treatment. The primary objective of this study is to compare the prolonged abstinence rate of the blended smoking cessation treatm...

BACKGROUND Smoking cessation can lead to changes in appetite and weight gain in some patients; thus, smoking cessation may alter gastrointestinal motility. Effects of smoking cessation on gastric emptying in smokers have not been established. AIM This study sought to determine how smoking cessation affects gastric emptying in smokers. METHODS Participant group comprised 53 habitual smokers ...

OBJECTIVE To determine factors affecting smoking cessation success in different age groups. METHODS This was an intervention study consisting of 761 patients attending the Balcova Municipality, Smoke Cessation Center, Izmir, Turkey, between November 2009 and December 2011. Variables were successful smoking cessation for one year, socio-demographic features, previous attempts at smoking cessat...

AIM Smoking cessation is particularly important for maintaining health; however, the subsequent risk of an increased body weight is of major concern. The present study investigated the influence of smoking cessation on the incidence of metabolic syndrome and its components in the Japanese general population. METHODS This study enrolled individuals without metabolic syndrome or a history of sm...

Introduction: Our aim was to investigate changes in smoking prevalence, smoking cessation support and factors associated with successful smoking cessation in patients with asthma and COPD. Methods: Questionnaires about available smoking cessation resources were completed by 54 primary health-care centers and 14 hospitals in central Sweden in 2005 and 2012. Patient data were collected using reco...

IntroductIon As the Irish government works towards their stated goal of a ‘tobacco free society’ in 2025, treatment offered to smokers must be expanded and improved. As such, it is inadequate to confine smoking cessation to a limited group of specialists and rather, it should be widely embraced by all health care professionals. In that regard, dentists could play a significant and crucial role....

BACKGROUND Prior analyses demonstrated the need for some countries and the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) to conduct additional supplemental immunization activities (SIAs) with trivalent oral poliovirus vaccine (tOPV) prior to globally-coordinated cessation of all serotype 2-containing OPV (OPV2 cessation) to prevent the creation of serotype 2 circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus ...