Newsletter for 2/20/2012

February 2012

Vol 12, Issue 2

Newsletter

Most Smokers Want to Quit, Only a Fraction Actually Do

-- underscoring a need for more services, messages, and access to medications to help them kick the habit, according to a new government report.

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Texting and Quitting

More cell-phone based smoking cessation applications are being developed, but few have been properly evaluated or proven to work. However, the results of a large randomized trial of a text messaging intervention (txt2stop) were recently published and found positive results. The study was published by Professor Caroline Free (United Kingdom) and colleagues in the medical journal, The Lancet.

Treating Smoking Like a Chronic Disease Improves Quit Rates

A new study suggests that providing long-term assistance to smokers, similar to the approach used in treating high blood pressure and diabetes, increases smoking cessation rates.

A Report on Cigarette Package Health Warnings and Interest in Quitting Smoking - 14 Countries, 2008 - 2010

The report finds that adult usage of manufactured cigarettes varied widely and that warnings on cigarette packages prompt smokers to think of quitting.

The May 27 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: A Report on Cigarette Package Health Warnings and Interest in Quitting Smoking.

The federal government is appealing the ruling of a federal judge who blocked the U.S rule requiring tobacco companies to display graphic images.

on cigarette packs, such as a man exhaling cigarette smoke through a hole in this throat. The new cigarette labels are a result of the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, which gave the FDA authority to regulate the content, marketing and sale of tobacco products.

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