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April 2012
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Evidence-based treatments for smoking cessation Smoking addiction is both physical and mental. The etiology of tobacco dependence is multidimensional and includes physiological, psychological, and social/behavioral factors. |
The Motley Fool
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Pfizer's Newest Blockbuster? Will Chantix help Pfizer cure its ailing stock price? |
Reactive Reports
Issue 67
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No Munchies with Cannabinoid Antagonist Cannabinoid receptors in the brain are normally stimulated by natural chemicals in the body but also, as the name might suggest, by compounds in cannabis and in tobacco smoke. |
American Family Physician
September 15, 2000 |
Using Tobacco: Why You Need to Quit Why do I need to stop using tobacco?... Why is it so hard to stop smoking?... How can I stop smoking?... How do I get ready to stop smoking?... What will happen when I stop smoking?... What is nicotine replacement?... What is bupropion (Zyban)?... |
American Family Physician
March 15, 2002
Robert Mallin |
Smoking Cessation: Integration of Behavioral and Drug Therapies Family physicians should take advantage of each contact with smokers to encourage and support smoking cessation. Once a patient is identified as a smoker, tools are available to assess readiness for change... |
American Family Physician
July 15, 2006
Okuyemi et al. |
Interventions to Facilitate Smoking Cessation Family physicians, who see many tobacco addicted patients in their offices every year, have an important opportunity to decrease smoking rates with office-based interventions. |
Smithsonian
April 2007
Eric Jaffe |
The Nic Fix Put down your lighters and pick up your health care cards -- nicotine vaccines are in the works |
American Family Physician
August 1, 2000 |
Do I Want to Quit Smoking? Questionaire about quitting smoking and what you can do about nicotine withdrawal |
AskMen.com
Kristen Armstrong |
Stop Smoking Remedies As with most other challenges in life, there are many products and promises out there that are aimed at making your journey toward a smoke-free life easier. Here's a list of some of the more common stop smoking remedies on the market. |
The Motley Fool
September 29, 2004
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Nabi Stamps Out Smoking A nicotine vaccine looks to help smokers kick the habit. |
American Family Physician
November 1, 2002 |
Heart Disease and Smoking: Why You Need to Stop Smoking Why do I need to stop smoking?... Why is it so hard to stop smoking?... What about nicotine replacement products or medicine to help me stop smoking?... How do I get support and encouragement? |
American Family Physician
March 15, 2002 |
How to Stop Smoking Make the decision to quit smoking. Stopping smoking is the best thing you can do for your health... |
American Family Physician
August 1, 2000
Terry A. Rustin |
Assessing Nicotine Dependence ...Family physicians can diagnose, evaluate and treat nicotine dependence within the limited time frame of an office visit. This article describes several assessment strategies... |
AskMen.com
October 1, 2003
Steve Richer |
How To: Quit Smoking Are you a regular smoker? Have you been trying to kick the habit for a while now? Have you unsuccessfully tried to quit in the past? Whether you're a social or regular smoker, these tips may encourage you to quit smoking today. |
American Family Physician
June 1, 2001 |
Using the Nicotine Patch, Nicotine Gum, Nicotine Nasal Spray or Nicotine Inhaler When you are ready to quit smoking, you may want to use nicotine replacement therapy to help you give up cigarettes... |
AskMen.com
March 16, 2003
Mike Davison |
Light Smokers Still Run Cancer Risk Significantly reducing the number of cigarettes you smoke a day may not be as helpful or as healthy as once thought. |
Scientific American
August 2008
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Nicotine Replacement Drug's Bad Trip Pfizer's smoking-cessation aid tied to psychiatric episodes. |
Chemistry World
July 9, 2007
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Smoking Cessation Drug Shows Promise for Alcohol Dependency A drug recently licensed as an aid to smoking cessation could also be used to treat alcohol addiction, US researchers have found. |
American Family Physician
July 15, 2006 |
Tips to Help You Quit Smoking A patient's guide: What can I do to quit smoking?... Get Ready... Make a Quit Plan... Plan Ahead... etc. |
The Motley Fool
March 16, 2004
David Nierengarten |
Sanofi Slimming Pill Sanofi's new drug, Acomplia, shows promise for weight loss and smoking cessation. |
The Motley Fool
November 17, 2009
Brian Orelli |
This Partnership Is Smoking! Glaxo and Nabi team up for smokers who want to quit. Let's just hope they don't flame out in phase 3 trials. |
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May 28, 2011
Frank Vinluan |
Philip Morris Buys Smokeless Nicotine Technology From Duke Researcher The new system could deliver a quicker nicotine hit with fewer chemicals. |
BusinessWeek
December 27, 2004
Kerry Capell |
The End Of Obesity As We Know It Sanofi-Aventis' Acomplia takes aim at two of the great maladies of the century. But approval isn't a slam dunk. |
The Motley Fool
July 30, 2007
Brian Orelli |
Glaxo Puffs Up Targacept In the weird world of drug partnerships, GlaxoSmithKline, maker of antismoking nicotine patches, is teaming up with Targacept to investigate the positive effects of nicotine. Investors, take note. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
December 1, 2010
Walter Armstrong |
The Next Wave: Pharm Exec's 2011 Pipeline Report 42 of the best new drugs in development or parked at the FDA |
AskMen.com
March 3, 2001
Joshua Levine |
Addictions And Substance Abuse Advertisements, social pressures, and the human desire for quick fixes to life's difficult problems all contribute to the prevailing attitude that drugs can ease all pain. Unfortunately, using drugs and alcohol can -- and often do -- have serious consequences... |
Managed Care
December 2007
Martin Sipkoff |
Smoking Cessation Coverage May Be Worth Plans' Effort Programs that include a pharmacology benefit reap rewards for the health plan and the member. So why isn't there 100% buy-in? |
Wired
February 2003
Joshua Davis |
Come to LeBow Country Maverick tycoon Bennett LeBow wants to help the world stop smoking. By selling genetically modified tobacco. Grown by the Amish. |
HBS Working Knowledge
April 23, 2014
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Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard? A new case study by John Quelch charts the growing popularity of electronic cigarettes and how tobacco companies and regulators are responding. |
American Family Physician
September 15, 2000 |
Smokeless Tobacco: Tips on How to Stop Compared with cigarettes, smokeless tobacco puts more nicotine into your bloodstream. For this and other reasons, people who chew or dip tobacco regularly say that quitting smokeless tobacco is even harder than quitting cigarette smoking. But many smokeless tobacco users have quit successfully--and so can you. |
Nursing
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Smoking Out the Dangers of COPD An overview of the guidelines for preventing, diagnosing, and treating COPD. |
Salon.com
June 15, 2001
Elizabeth M. Whelan |
Tobacklash! One man wins $3 billion from Philip Morris and suddenly
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BusinessWeek
June 27, 2005
Nanette Byrnes |
Smart Moves for Stopping Smoking Office bans against lighting up, higher taxes, and adult-focused antitobacco ads work well. But the tobacco industry's political power remains strong. |
Reactive Reports
Issue 58 |
Drug Discovery at a Snail's Pace Researchers isolated a toxin from the venomous cone sea snail. This nerve poison latches on to brain receptors and its chemical structure could be used to design new drugs that interact with these receptors and treat psychiatric and brain diseases. |
Chemistry World
March 2010
Bibiana Campos Seijo |
Editorial: Smoking kills What we didn't realise until now is that nicotine residues absorbed on indoor surfaces (carpets, wallpaper etc) react with gases in the air to produce even more cancer-causing carcinogens. |
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Brian Orelli |
Pick Your Poison: Lung Cancer or Heart Attack How much will the FDA's new warning affect Pfizer's Chantix? |
Pharmaceutical Executive
December 1, 2010
Walter Armstrong |
Nicotine Addiction: What Lights Up the Field The market for anti-smoking products exceeds $2 billion, but their superiority over cold-turkey quitting remains controversial. |
AskMen.com
K. Aleisha Fetters |
E-Cigarette Health Risks Is vaping really safer than smoking? New studies raise concerns. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Smoking or Spending Too Much? Don't Count on Remedy Marketers to Help A new research paper by three marketing professors says that remedies -- defined here as products or services that offer solutions to consumer problems -- may be part of the problem. |
The Motley Fool
September 29, 2006
Brian Lawler |
Pfizer Helps France Kick Butts Europe approves the pharmaceutical's new drug to help smokers quit. Activities like this drug approval, and the molecule licensing earlier this week from privately held Quark Biotech, should eventually reignite Pfizer's moribund revenue growth. |
Salon.com
June 6, 2000
Dan Zegart |
Smoke screen Why did a Philip Morris scientist kill herself by drinking nicotine? |
The Motley Fool
March 9, 2005
Brian Gorman |
Sanofi's Answer to Obesity Sanofi-Aventis will ask for FDA approval of an exciting new drug that may work for a variety of addictions. |
Wired
April 21, 2008
Patrick di Justo |
What's Inside: For a Refreshing Hint of Tear Gas, Light Up a Cigarette What you are inhaling every time you puff on a cigarette. |
Managed Care
March 2004 |
Smoking-Cessation Efforts Set Cost-Effectiveness Bar The recent 40th anniversary of the surgeon general's report on smoking brought some staggering statistics to the public's attention |
| AskMen.com |
Is Smoking Back? Cigarette smoking rose slightly for the first time in almost 15 years, dashing health officials' hopes that the U.S. smoking rate had moved permanently below 20 percent. |
The Motley Fool
March 11, 2004
Selena Maranjian |
The Working Class Up in Smoke If you've ever smoked, you know that quitting the habit is no small endeavor. Researchers now tell us, though, that quitting may be more out of reach for some groups than others -- and one factor that seems to play a large part is the smoker's occupation. |
BusinessWeek
November 22, 2004 |
A Boost For France's Sanofi-Aventis The French government's goal of creating a national pharmaceutical champion got a big boost when Paris-based Sanofi-Aventis released promising data on an experimental drug that helps people lose weight and stop smoking. |
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WHO: Get Graphic With Smokers Cigarette packages should include images of sickness and suffering caused by tobacco, along with written warnings, the World Health Organization said. |
The Motley Fool
February 22, 2008
Selena Maranjian |
Smoking Around the World What if hundreds of millions of people around the world quit smoking? |
