Category: Quit smoking

‘Healthy changes start with little changes’ – that’s the message from the Better Health campaign which is supported by One You Kent services to help people lose weight and get active.

Kent residents who are facing increasing health issues from poor key lifestyle behaviours including inactivity and unhealthy eating, along with smoking and drinking too much alcohol, could be seeing short and long term effects on their emotional and physical health, leading to an increased risk of many types of cancer, heart and lung disease and stroke.

Figures for 2019/20 estimate 64% of adults aged over 18 were overweight and obe…….

If there is a television show that has managed to harness the energy of the Trump era—the mania and the chaos, the absurdity and the delusion, the creeping nihilism and the suspicion that things might spin out of control—and channel it into something special, without ever explicitly referencing politics, it is “Search Party.” For five seasons, Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers’s satirical whodunnit has followed a group of twentysomething friends who set off to find a missing peer as a means of validating their own lives. The show whipsaws across tones and genres wit…….

A week into the new year, the resolutions that you made on Jan. 1 may be starting to slip away. Research has shown that most people struggle to persevere when they set goals. The good news is that if you’re willing to think about setbacks productively rather than simply give up, you can use them to do better next time.

“Progress is never a linear process,” explains Sharon Salzberg, the author of “Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World.” “There is resilience training in realizing I can start over.” In fact, one of the best predictors of successfully quitting smoking is the num…….

When I was a kid, my dad did something on family vacations that perplexes me to this day: He ran. Every day, at least four or five miles, rising before the sun and before anyone else was awake. He wasn’t training for anything. He wasn’t trying to lose weight. There was no specific goal, no endpoint, no particular reason he couldn’t take the week off while in the greater Disney World metropolitan area, which, in July, is hotter than the surface of the sun. He was just running, like he had basically every day since time immemorial. My dad will turn 75 next week, and whenever you’re reading t…….

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Experts warn that teenagers whose parents smoke are likely to copy them in adulthood
New film features health experts discussing how adult smokers can act as role models
NHS support offered to smokers – in particular parents, carers and other adults – to encourage them to quit in the new year

Top medical experts have warned that teens whose parents or caregivers smoked are 4 times as likely to take up smoking.

Analysis has also shown that early teens whose main caregiver smoked were more than twice as likely to have tried cigarettes (26% versus 11% ) and 4 times as likely to be a regular smoker (4.9% versus 1.2%).</p…….

It is still the leading cause of preventable death in the United States and yet 42.1 million people light up and new smokers start every day.

“Smoking is my best friend,” Atlantan Barry Blackwell said. “It’s always with me long after friends have left and people have gone, they are always here.”

To help people who do want to quit, scientists have looked with great interest into what works. Especially since studies have shown that 90% of those who try to quit, will start smoking again despite their best efforts.

Financial incentives

Financial benefit from quitting, may be your best bet — literally — partic…….

While research suggesting e-cigarettes may be useful for helping adult smokers quit continues to build, the evidence remains inadequate to support a formal recommendation, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) determined.

In updated recommendations appearing in JAMA, “The USPSTF recommends that clinicians direct patients who use tobacco to other tobacco cessation interventions with proven effectiveness and established safety,” the statement read.

The advisory group also found the data insufficient to assess the safe…….

Source: https://www.courier-journal.com/story/life/wellness/health/2022/01/06/how-to-prevent-weight-gain-when-you-quit-smoking/9023038002/

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Ivan Berlin, associate professor of clinical pharmacology1, Noémi Berlin, researcher in behavioural economics2, Marie Malecot, vascular physician3, Martine Breton, midwife4, Florence Jusot, professor of economics5, Léontine Goldzahl, associate professor of economics61Département de pharmacologie, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière-Sorbonne Université, 75013 Paris, France2CNRS, EconomiX, Université Paris Nanterre, Nanterre, France3Unité d’addictologie, Centre Hospitalier St Joseph St Luc, Lyon, France4Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Morvan, Brest, France5Université Paris-Dauphine, PSL-Research University, LEDa, Paris, France6EDHEC B…….