Quit Smoking Drugs That Adequately Tie Up Your Smoking Passion

laser therapy to quit smoking If you want to stop smoking, Zyban, a prescription drug sold under the generic name Bupropion hydrochloride, is one option that your doctor may prescribe. Included in this site is Chantix information (the only other prescription drug that is currently approved by the FDA for smoking cessation), Zyban information, stop [...]

Group seeks state funding of stop-smoking efforts

FRANKFORT, Ky. — A coalition of health advocates is calling on lawmakers to fund smoking cessation for Kentuckians who get care though Medicaid, the federal-state health plan for the poor and disabled. Calling it “pennywise and pound foolish” not to offer such services in a state with one the nation’s highest rates of smoking. Amy Barkley, with the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids called on lawmakers to put money into a 2007 bill that authorized a stop-smoking program for Medicaid but never fund

Drug-free youth coalition funds go up in smoke

JANESVILLE — Much of Rock County Youth2Youth’s funding went up in smoke when Wisconsin’s anti-smoking and smoking cessation programs lost 55 percent of their state funding. Funds in the 2009-11 budget signed by Gov. Jim Doyle cut total funding for anti-tobacco programs by more than half, from $15.3 million a year to $6.9 million. Debbie Fischer, director of the countywide coalition, reacted to the cuts with disbelief. “The statewide smoking free air (bill) passed and there was a large incr

Stop-Smoking Vaccine in the Works

The National Institute on Drug Abuse has given a $10 million grant to a Maryland company to help it in the final phases of research regarding a possible anti-nicotine vaccine. Nabi Biopharmaceuticals of Rockville will launch a phase III study of a potential vaccine called NicVAX. The study, which could be the last step of research if the vaccine works, represents the most advanced investigation of a smoking-cessation vaccine. The vaccine is designed to help people quit smoking and not relaps

Hypnotist Smoking Cessation Sessions Can Remove Cravings For Smoking

Hypnotist Smoking Cessation Sessions Can Remove Cravings For Smoking by David HughesIn the present world, the dangerous effects of tobacco smoking are quite well known. Many fatal diseases occur basically due to inhalation of the smoke which is full of nicotine. If pregnant women smoke, their babies are born with mental and physical retardation. It has been found that many obese people become victims of smoking. This happens because they see smoking as an appetite suppressant. Yet anoth

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