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- 00/03/15 Pharmacotherapy of Smoking Cessation
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Tobacco use is the number one cause of preventable diseases in the United States. Smoking accounts for more than 400,000 deaths yearly and 30% of all cancer deaths. Primary care physicians have access to 70% of smokers, approximately 60% of whom are perceived to be in excellent health. Recent advances in the pharmacotherapy of nicotine addiction, including nicotine nasal spray, nicotine inhaler, bupropion hydrochloride, and over-the-counter transdermal nicotine patches, have increased the treatment options physicians can offer to smokers. Physicians, especially those in primary care specialties, should familiarize themselves with these products to improve efforts to help their patients stop smoking. This article reviews scientific data on the efficacy of approved medications, benefits, adverse effects, and appropriate use of these products. We also discuss nicotine addiction and treatment for special populations, including women, ethnic minorities, light smokers, and patients with cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases.
- Health News
- USA Today's Smoking and Health Page has lots of Links to latest info.
- Health News Links from Oncolink. Your Health Daily
- 2/26/99 New Tobacco Citations CDC
- The Office on Smoking and Health, part of CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, is pleased to make available citations of recently published, tobacco-related articles from behavioral, scientific, and technical literature. Please consult a technical, medical, or public library to obtain articles of interest.
- Men's Health: Smoking compilation of NY Times articles
- 7/16/00 CESSATION: Wellness Web Smoker's Clinic
- 7/16/00 Smoking Cessation Medical Information Choose "Smoking Cessation" from the list at the top left. From MediConsult
- QUITTING SMOKING TIPS
- Warren's Personal Tips
- 07/04/98 The Ashtray: COHIS Guide to Smoking facts, and Quitting Smoking
- 01/16/97 Master Anti-Smoking Page's Quit Smoking Tips Once past the commercial; some nice tips.
- 01/31/97 Kicking the Habit--with Help Good Housekeeping on cessation aids.
- 03/10/97 Rush North Shore (Skokie, IL) Quit Smoking Program Lots of tips and reinforcement material available here.
- 05/06/97 Information on Nicotine Patch Use from the Virtual Hospital
- Health Information
- 06/16/98 NCI Publications on Smoking
- 08/97 Secondhand Smoke; Clearing The Air Of A Cloudy Debate Mayo Clinic
- 00/06/27 Environmental Tobacco Smoke NCI/WebMD 2/8/95
- 10/18/97 Environmental Tobacco Smoke Exposure And Ischaemic Heart Disease: An Evaluation Of The Evidence British Medical Journal
- 10/18/97 The Accumulated Evidence On Lung Cancer And Environmental Tobacco Smoke British Medical Journal
- 9/23/97 Smoking and Risk of SIDS Sensitive article from the SIDS Network
- 7/16/00 Tobacco. from the American Lung Assn Cigars, Teens, Women, Pregnancy, Workplace, ETS, Cessation, Marketing, more.
- 01/04/97 A nice list of nicotine effects from DrugSearch (LB)
- 07/10/97Counseling to Prevent Tobacco Use (NIH) Lots of info, with references.
- 05/29/97 Lung Cancer Information Page from Medicine Online
- Got a question about health/quitting aspects of smoking or snuff? Go Ask Alice from the Health Education and Wellness program of Columbia University Health Service. Here's some previous questions about smoking
- 05/14/97 What are the Medical Risks of Smoking? CNNfn
- 12/22/96Counseling to Prevent Tobacco Use (NIH) Lots of info, with references
- 9/2/96 Patch vs. Gum From "Money Talks"
- 8/30/96 Teens and Smokeless Tobacco by Brian Peters, a Junior at Pioneer High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan
- The Pica Page
- Lung Cancer Risks
- Smoking and SIDS A difficult and sobering discussion of grief, guilt, science and the media. From the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Network WebSite. Clarifying Confusing Research Information also addresses smoking.
- 9/17/97 CalEPA Report on ETS the first comprehensive governmental analysis in the US since the 1986 Surgeon General's Report. This if the final version.
- 05/29/97 Health Effects of Exposure to Environmental Toacco Smoke Feb., 1997 CEPA Report. Here's the Executive Summary
- 3/20/98 Report of the Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health SCOTH
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