Gordon Brown’s ‘wake-up call’ on prescription charges


This is to remind you that on Monday people across England will be supporting the Prescription Promise campaign by giving Gordon Brown a literal wake-up (phone) call on prescription charges. If Brown doesnt pass new legislation within the next few weeks, free prescriptions for people with long-term conditions will fail to become a reality before [...]



12 Reasons to Really Quit Smoking


Image via Wikipedia Never mind cancer or heart disease for a moment. Here are some nonobvious reasons to snub cigarettes. By Lindsay Lyon, U.S. News & World Report We’ll spare you the lecture. (Seriously, though. Stamp out that butt and flush the pack, already.) Tobacco use, namely cigarette smoking, is the chief cause of preventable [...]



Australian Anti-smoking commercial draws howls as boy sobs...


BY Rich Schapiro and Bill Hutchinson DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS Updated Saturday, April 4th 2009, 8:05 PM Critics have leveled complaints against an anti-smoking commercial and its treatment of the young boy featured in it. Critics have leveled complaints against an anti-smoking commercial and its treatment of the young boy featured in it. A crying [...]



Cease smoking on ‘Kick Butts Day’


Image by Cade via Flickr LA PORTE – With the added 62 cent cigarette tax pending next week, Wednesday’s Kick Butts Day national commemoration is a great incentive date to begin kicking the nicotine habit, according to Sandy Gleim, Healthy Communities of La Porte County executive director. La Porte County residents already have shown increased [...]



£12.50 a week offer to cease smoking


Image via Wikipedia A scheme which offers smokers in Scotland £12.50 a week to kick the habit has been launched. Smokers in deprived areas of Dundee will get the cash in the form of a credit which they can spend on groceries – as long as they stay off cigarettes. The scheme was launched by [...]



Smokers to pay heavy price


Image via Wikipedia By ADAM BOWLES Norwich Bulletin Posted Mar 23, 2009 @ 11:52 PM Last update Mar 24, 2009 @ 12:01 AM Norwich, Conn. — Harry O’Keefe, 59, has been smoking since he was a student at what is now Norwich Technical High School. The pack-a-day smoker said he’s never made much of an [...]



New cigarette tax means much higher prices for some


If you smoke cigarettes, you’ve probably noticed in the past few weeks that it’s costing more to light up. Philip Morris USA raised its prices in February, and retailers are beginning to catch up and pass the costs on to consumers. Along the Grand Strand, price increases range from $0.75 to more than $1. For [...]



Surge in sales of products to cease smoking are healthy for...


Image by isabel bloedwater via Flickr Gazette News Service GRAND RAPIDS — A two-month free supply of gum turned out to be a smokin’ hot deal, judging by the 65,000 calls that poured into the Michigan Tobacco Quit Line last week. The overwhelming response — the amount of smoking-cessation products requested exceeded the state’s supply [...]



Naltrexone can help heavy social drinkers cease smoking


Naltrexone, an opioid antagonist approved in 1994 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for alcohol-dependence (AD) treatment, can reduce relapse rates among AD patients. Research on naltrexone’s effectiveness on nicotine dependence is less clear, although researchers believe it may be helpful for specific smoker subgroups. A new study has found that naltrexone can help [...]



Stop Smoking Service outside Asda in Harlow


Image via Wikipedia ADVISERS from the West Essex Stop Smoking Service will be outside the Asda store in Harlow today (Wednesday) to mark national No Smoking Day. The service will be providing people with special vouchers entitling them to up to a month’s supply of nicotine replacement products for the price of a prescription. The [...]



Hypnotherapist helps smokers for National No Smoking Day


Image via Wikipedia Mar 10 2009 by Emma Davison, Huddersfield Daily Examiner A HYPNOTHERAPIST is helping smokers to quit for free as part of National No Smoking Day. Debbie Taylor-Payne says tomorrow’s event would be the perfect time for people who had failed New Year’s resolutions to stop smoking to have another go. Debbie, who [...]



Smoking addictive but quitting contagious


Image by John.Karakatsanis via Flickr by James Gaffney Mar 03, 2009 America has become a nation of quitters. And people who know quitters have become quitters themselves. According to a massive study spanning the last 32 years, people living in the United States have quit smoking in droves and the number of smokers continues to [...]



 

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