November 4, 2006

Smoking Leads to Long Term Care – Get Covered Before it is Too Late

Updated July 12, 2007

No one wants to think about the future possibility of needing long term care. The truth is, though, that smokers are especially at risk for health problems that require an assisted living facility, a nursing home, or in-home care.

The great thing about long term care is that you can now get it for in-home care and assisted living facilities. It used to be you could only get LTC for nursing homes.

You might think that there is no way you would ever need it, or that it's far off in the future. But did you know that 40% of Americans getting long term care of under 65 years of age? I didn't.

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Filed under Stop Smoking Aids, Stop Smoking News by David.
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August 23, 2006

Quit Smoking News

Updated August 25, 2006

Quit Smoking Cold Turkey… Experts Say Think Again (BET.com)

21 Aug 2006 at 10:39am

Posted Aug. 21, 2006 – Despite all the stop-smoking products on the market, African-American smokers prefer to quit cold turkey, which a new survey says leads to lower rates of success.

FINDINGS (Washington Post)

23 Aug 2006 at 12:57am

Smoking may rewire people's brains in a way that makes it difficult to quit, a study says.

Tom & Jerry quit smoking (Guardian Unlimited)

21 Aug 2006 at 8:06am

Media: Scenes of smoking are to be edited out of classic Tom & Jerry cartoons following a complaint to the broadcast regulator.

Smoking limits get mixed reactions (The State)

23 Aug 2006 at 2:13am

With a smoking ban taking hold on the University of South Carolina campus, 18-year-old Matt Webber wonders whether he?s going to have to find a new school.

HEALTH: Hospital offers free stop-smoking course (Ridgefield Press)

23 Aug 2006 at 4:29am

Norwalk Hospital is offering a free smoking cessation program beginning on Sept. 19 at 6 p.m. in the third floor respiratory classroom in the Section of Pulmonary Medicine at the hospital. The program consists of seven sessions, all to be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m.
Filed under Stop Smoking News by David.
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August 16, 2006

Products to Help You Quit Smoking

Updated August 25, 2006

Varenicline shown to help 'quit smoking' (News-Medical-Net)

14 Aug 2006 at 4:24pm

A drug recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as an aid to smoking cessation appears effective both short- and long-term for smokers trying to quit, according to two reports in the August 14/28 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Smoking Pill The Newest Way To Quit (KDKA Pittsburgh)

15 Aug 2006 at 6:05pm

The FDA has approved a revolutionary new approach to help smokers kick the habit. With 45 million smokers and tobacco causing nearly one third of all cancer deaths in the U.S., the American Cancer Society is calling the new smoking pill welcome news.

Allen Carr, Quit Smoking Expert, Diagnosed with Lung Cancer (Business Wire vi…

14 Aug 2006 at 4:04pm

NEW YORK—-Aug. 14, 2006–Allen Carr, the author and speaker whose Easyway books and seminars have helped millions of people quit smoking, has been diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer.

NYC's mayor giving millions of his own cash to anti-smoking campaign (WHO-TV …

15 Aug 2006 at 3:33pm

NEW YORK New York City's mayor absolutely hates smoking and wants everyone to quit. Now, multi- (b) billionaire Michael Bloomberg is putting his money where his mouth is.

Bloomberg puts $125M into anti-smoking (AP via Yahoo! News)

15 Aug 2006 at 8:38pm

Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a billionaire and former smoker, announced Tuesday he would pour $125 million of his own money into a worldwide campaign against smoking, a cause he said was largely neglected by philanthropists.
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