Stop Smoking Now! (Elko Daily)
PACE Coalition is hosting the American Lung Association s eight-session Freedom From Smoking program beginning today. The cost is $25 per person payable at the first session. The first class starts at 5:30 p.m. at the PACE Coalition office, 249 Third St.
Source: www.elkodaily.com
Nicotine patch and group support may be the best combination for helping women in public housing to stop smoking (News-Medical-Net)
This strategy helped nearly 50 percent of women smokers in an Augusta public housing unit quit smoking by the end of a six-week program while less than 8 percent of women in a comparison group had kicked the habit, says Dr. Jeanette Andrews, nursing professor at the Medical College of Georgia and principal investigator
Source: www.news-medical.net
Maori MP wants total smoking ban (Stuff)
Maori Party MP Hone Harawira is floating the idea of a total ban on smoking tobacco, but he appears to have little support.
Source: www.stuff.co.nz
Smoking Ban Irks Retirement Home Residents (AP via Yahoo! News)
The state's tough new anti-smoking law has an unlikely opponent: a retired doctor who argues the ban is forcing elderly smokers in nursing homes to take unnecessary risks.
Source: news.yahoo.com
Fallon board's push for bill on teen smoking meets resistance (KRNV)
The Churchill County School Board's push for a bill making teen smoking illegal is running into resistance. Trustees say the proposal drew scant support at a recent meeting of the Nevada School Board Association's board.
Source: www.krnv.com
BT bans smoking in vans (Guardian Unlimited)
Money: Telecoms giant to ban workers from smoking in offices and vans from March.
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Nicotine patch and group support may be the best combination for helping women in public housing to stop smoking (News-Medical-Net)
This strategy helped nearly 50 percent of women smokers in an Augusta public housing unit quit smoking by the end of a six-week program while less than 8 percent of women in a comparison group had kicked the habit, says Dr. Jeanette Andrews, nursing professor at the Medical College of Georgia and principal investigator
Source: www.news-medical.net
Cutting smoking, dropping a dress size (CNN.com)
A lobbyist assistant in Washington, Donna Watts-Brighthaupt says she hopes to give up fatty foods and quit smoking.
Source: www.cnn.com
Program helps pregnant women quit smoking (News Journal)
MANSFIELD — Up to $80 in gift certificates and free transportation, if needed, are being offered as incentives for a new quit-smoking program for pregnant women and mothers of toddlers.
Source: www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com
Smoking Ban Irks Retirement Home Residents (AP via Yahoo! News)
The state's tough new anti-smoking law has an unlikely opponent: a retired doctor who argues the ban is forcing elderly smokers in nursing homes to take unnecessary risks.
Source: news.yahoo.com
