Stop Smoking Way

Participants in the scheme, which will go on a trial run in the autumn, will receive 12.50 pounds (16 euros) a week to give up smoking – or 150 pounds for the three-month duration of the pilot project. The money will be credited to an electronic card which participants can redeem in their local supermarket for fresh food and groceries – except alcohol and cigarettes.

The initiative by Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) is targeted at the poorest areas of the port city of 150,000. Of the 36,000 smokers of Dundee, about half live in poverty, council figures show. Participants will receive nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) through their local pharmacy, while having to undergo weekly carbon monoxide breath tests to prove they are still smoke-free.

Technology is helping to make winners of quitters.
The internet has long been rife with self-help sites for those who wish to give up smoking, but new technologies are emerging to give smokers a leg up in their struggle.
There are websites that offer interactive resources to motivate quitters and keep them on track, mini-computers that can help you track your progress, and software for hand-helds that makes it easier for doctors to pitch in.
“These technologies offer a lot of promise — they are very intriguing,” said Scott Strayer, a physician who developed software called the Handheld Computer Smoking Intervention Tool for the National Cancer Institute.

I read with interest the open letter from Dr. Brad Rodu to Sen. Obama in the June 22 Perspective section (“Quitting ins’t that easy”). In this open letter, Dr.Rodu advocated the use of smokeless and spit tobacco (which I will refer to only as spit tobacco) to reduce the cravings of nicotine addiction and reduce the harm from cigarettes. He minimized the risk from spit tobacco in his comments.

Smokers in deprived communities in one of Scotland’s major cities are to be offered ?12.50 a week to quit, it has been announced.

NHS Tayside hopes the ?500,000 pilot scheme will help 900 people in Dundee stop smoking over the next two years.

Participants in the new initiative will be offered ?12.50 per week credited onto an electronic card which they can redeem in their local supermarket for fresh food and groceries, but not alcohol and cigarettes.

They can take part in the programme for a maximum of 12 weeks.

Would you like some help quitting smoking? If you are like most of the smoking population who want to quit you have probably been talking yourself into giving up cigarettes for some time. Maybe you have even used patches or gum and found them to be hopeless. If you have made the decision to stop smoking and just need a little help, Irish Hypnosis could be your solution.

Louis Ryan, managing director of Irish Hypnosis, explains how his hypnotherapy clinic can help you achieve your goals this year.

In May, we introduced you to two CityNews employees who had volunteered themselves for an intriguing treatment: to quit smoking, using laser therapy.

Political Specialist Richard Madan and editor Neil MacKay both signed up to be guinea pigs with QuickStop Solution about a month ago.

Health Specialist Laura Di Battista will show you if they were able to butt out on CityNews at Five and Six.

If you’re looking to quit, here are some other methods that may be less costly than the $400 sessions:

Smokers will be offered help to flick the habit with their texting thumb from tomorrow when a service starts for cellphone users.

Based on successful trials of the new concept, the service will be offered by the state-funded Quit Group, which also provides the telephone Quitline and cards for subsidised nicotine gum and patches. It is hoped to improve the chances of success for the 1-in-5 smokers who are trying to quit.

Just under 20 per cent of adults are smokers and the highest prevalence is among those aged 18 to 34.

Even if you have decided to quit smoking you will often be tempted to smoke. For any one, it will be difficult to renounce a habit all of a sudden. So you should try to gradually give up the habit. Here is your guide to show the best way to quit smoking. Read on.. This article highlights

• Why should you quit smoking?
• What are the effective methods?
• Ayurvedic and yoga
• Counseling
• Other popular methods
• The advantages of quitting smoking
• Every smoker realizes that he needs to get rid of the killer habit at some point of time.

Glencoe Regional Health Services, Hutchinson Area Health Care and Hutchinson Medical Center have recently gone to totally tobacco-free campuses. Ridgewater College in Hutchinson will have a tobacco-free campus beginning in August, 2008.

According to the National Cancer Institute, tobacco use is the most common preventable cause of death. About half of the people who don’t quit smoking will die of smoking-related problems.

There’s no way around it. Smoking is bad for your health. Smoking harms nearly every organ of the body. Cigarette smoking causes 87 percent of lung cancer deaths. It is also responsible for many other cancers and health problems. These include lung disease, heart and blood vessel disease, stroke and cataracts. Women who smoke have a greater chance of certain pregnancy problems or having a baby die from sudden infant death syndrome.

Daniel Williams hoped Chantix would help him quit smoking and become healthier. Instead, he believes, it nearly killed him.

WASHINGTON — Daniel Williams decided he’d listen to his girlfriend and his 8-year-old son and finally quit smoking, with the help of a new prescription drug called Chantix.

He started taking the medication, and a couple of nights later, as he was driving his pickup truck on a country road in Louisiana, Williams suddenly swerved left.

His girlfriend, Melinda Lofton, who was with him, later told him that his eyes had rolled back in his head and that it had seemed as if he was frozen at the wheel, accelerating.