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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Previous studies have linked smoking to some of the biggest killers in the world today such as lung disease, heart and blood vessel disease, stroke and cataracts and cancers as well as impotence and tobacco-related diseases.
Recently, a study at the Far Eastern memorial hospital in Taiwan, has shown that smoking cigarettes can also encourage male […]

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A study at the University of Texas suggests that treatment based on a derivative of vitamin A called retinoic acid may help to cut former smokers’ risk of lung cancer.
Previous studies suspect that lung cells damaged during years of smoking may continue to evolve into cancer even after that person has quit. This new therapy […]

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In a new study published in the American Journal of Medicine, US researchers concluded that heavier smokers have a greater risk of the skin condition and this only falls back to normal 20 years after quitting.
It is reported also that toxins in cigarette smoke may harm parts of the immune system associated with psoriasis.

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According to a report of Columbia University’s National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA), smoking cigarettes may make teens more prone to depression, alcohol abuse and illegal drug use.
Researchers reported that those teenagers who smoke are 9 times more likely to abuse alcohol and 13 times more likely to abuse illegal drugs than those […]

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A new research conducted at the Buffalo Neuroimaging Analysis Center (BNAC) at the University at Buffalo has concluded that multiple sclerosis (MS) patients who smoke risk increasing the amount of brain tissue shrinkage.
Cigarette smoke are toxic to the central nervous system and its interactions with genetic and immunologic factors may result in significant consequences of MS, as […]

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A new study conducted at The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that people with disabilities are 50% more likely to smoke than those who do not have a disability
The new released research has confirmed that people with disabilities are more subject to illness and disease because they are less likely than people without […]

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A recent study at Tulane University School of Public Health, New Orleans confirmed the link between cigarette smoking and erectile dysfunction. In the past many studies conducted in patients with diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease found that men who smoke are at high risk of erectile dysfunction.
What brings new this study is the fact that […]

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A new study at the Scripps Research Koob lab found that chronic nicotine use recruits the extrahypothalamic corticotropin releasing factor (CRF) system, a critical brain stress system, which keep continued tobacco use by intensifying craving and anxiety upon withdrawal. That explains why many cigarette smokers relapse even after a long abstinence from smoking. A compound […]

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A recent study conducted at  the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, Holland,  points to a direct link between smoking and dementia. The study used information about 7,000 people age 55 and older for seven years.

This new finding means that smokers have to worry about the possibility of Alzheimer’s, not only of cardiovascular disease, hypertension, cancer, bad breath, shortness of […]

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