A new study at the Peninsula Medical School in South West England suggests that retirement is one of the great transitions in life, which is why a greater proportion of people may find it easier to make significant changes elsewhere in their lives at this time.
For people struggling to kick the butt retirement is the most […]

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Under an idea proposed by Health England, smokers could be forced to pay £10 for a permit to buy tobacco if a government health advisory body gets its way. That means no one would be able to buy cigarettes without the permit. This permit will be available for one year.
But smokers’ rights group Forest described the […]

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Scientists from Johns Hopkins University suggests that cigarette smokers face a higher risk of developing sleep disorder as compared to people who do not smoke.
During trials, restless sleep was more common among smokers than among non-smokers. Smoking might lead to poor sleep due to overnight nicotine withdrawal, they added, the researchers said.

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A four-year study at the University of Hong Kong showed that elderly smokers were more likely to die from cancer, cardiovascular or respiratory diseases, as compared to non-smokers.
The team also concluded that while ex-smokers were 50 percent more likely to die from cancer than non-smokers, those who kept smoking were more than twice as likely […]

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A research team from Hospital Universitario de Caracas, Venezuela, revealed that long-term heavy tobacco smoking can lead to potentially harmful structural and functional changes in skeletal muscle outside the lungs, even in smokers who don’t have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
According to their report, published in the medical journal Chest, the investigators observed significantly reduced […]

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A US study at the Yale University concluded that teenagers who smoke, or whose mother smoked in pregnancy, are at higher risk of hearing problems and understanding what is being said.
The findings were reported in New Scientist magazine.

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A new research at Temple University School of Medicine and Hospital in Philadelphia, warn that men with a pack-a-day habit are almost 40 percent more likely to struggle with erectile dysfunction than men who don’t smoke.
Smoking delivers nicotine and other vasoconstrictors that close down the blood vessels, revealed the study. So, if heart disease, stroke […]

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A Swiss research team at the University of Lausanne links smoking with an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes. A review of 1.2 million participants shows active smokers have a 44 percent increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes compared with non-smokers.

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A new study of The Journal of the American Medical Association concluded smoking is linked to a significantly increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes. They found smokers had a 44% increased risk of type 2 diabetes compared with non-smokers.

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A new type of medication to help smokers quit will be assessed by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) next year. Varenicline (champix) is the first non-nicotine drug specifically designed to help smokers give up.  The drug mimics the action of nicotine on the human body and is thought to work by both reducing […]

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