(Macomb Daily staff photo by Craig Gaffield) Handing out breath mints to Sterling Heights residents Bryan Baines and his son, Conner, is Wade Leonard, who dressed up as a cigarette to help encourage people to stop using tobacco. Thursday’s event at Mount Clemens Regional Medical Center was part of the American Cancer Society’s great...
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I went to fagends the Roy Castle place and they gave me loads of support. I stopped smoking after 35 years and havent had one for 3 yrs now and dont even crave one Well…there is nicorette gum and the patch and then there is prescription zyban pill (aka wellbutrin) those are the simpler...
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Please have a source that i can work with phillip morris has a good one and then there is dccps.nci.nih.gov/tcrb/Smoking_Fa… you can do a yahoo search and find loads of things you should check out the CDC's site, they have all kinds of stuff like fact sheets and statistics… hope it helps! cdc.gov smokin...
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Today is the great American Smokeout L&D Associates' Grant News: Today is the great American Smokeout Quitting smoking is not simple, but it can be done. an estimated 69.7 million Americans age 12 or older use tobacco products. SAMHSA encourages smokers to become nonsmokers during the 35th annual great American Smokeout. The great American...
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BILL: At a football game recently, I was surprised to see so many kids smoking. “You’re right,” said Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Dr. Judy Rosenberg, an expert in the field (drjudyrosenberg.com). “Huge Tobacco has a history of advertising heavily to teen-agers. they need to replace their customers who died.”DR DAVE:  Ironically, the way the world...
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Information provided by Healthy Communities of LaPorte County    Determination and persistence are keys to kicking the habit, a former local smoker says as the annual Fantastic American Smokeout approaches.    Thursday, Nov. 18, is the 35th annual Smokeout staged by the American Cancer Society (ACS), urging tobacco users to take the first steps...
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<< back to News MGN GraphicBy Chelsea FarnamPress Staff Sam Nave said his doctor place it to him simply: quit smoking or die. Nave, who had smoked for 10 years, was suffering from complications due to an enlarged heart, facing heart surgery and a long recovery process. The Johnson City resident has been tobacco-free...
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The national association is encouraging local smokers to use the date to make a plan to quit smoking that day. According to an American Cancer Society report, smokers that quit can expect to live as many as 10 years longer than those that don’t. “Quitting smoking is an important step toward staying well and...
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November 10, 2010 The American Cancer Society Double Your Chances of Quitting Tobacco Tobacco use remains the single largest preventable cause of disease and premature death in the United States. In the U.S., tobacco is responsible for nearly 1 in 5 deaths: an estimate of 443,000 premature deaths, of which about 46,000 are in...
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WASHINGTON – A major study shows giving heavy smokers special CT scans can detect lung cancer early enough to modestly lower their risk of death — the first clear evidence that a screening test may help fight the nation’s top cancer killer. Now the hurdle is deciding who should get these spiral CT scans...
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