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Could a popular stop smoking medication also help reduce alcohol consumption levels?
Champix is a popular and effective prescription medication designed to help smokers quit the habit. It does this by blocking the rewarding sensation and feeling experienced by smokers from nicotine, which essentially makes them crave tobacco less as it no longer provides any stimulation.
A new study conducted in the United States suggests that it may also help people lower their levels of alcohol consumption in much the same way.
The health benefits of quitting smoking
There are a number of health risks that smoking poses to individuals. Most of these are highlighted with advertising or anti-smoking campaigns, usually focusing on lung damage and developments of cancers throughout the body.
However, there is a large amount of information that is not commonly known in terms of the positive effects quitting smoking has on the body after certain amounts of time.
The Top 5 Anti-Smoking Ads
As health risks have become more pronounced and the dangers of smoking more documented, it’s only natural that legislative response would follow. But along with changes in laws and an increased understanding of the damage smoking can cause, anti-smoking advertising has stepped to the forefront.
These anti-smoking campaigns aim to use artistic expression to convey the damage smoking can cause the body and the people around those who smoke. While...
Graphic Warning Labels - Are they effective?
Cigarette packs contain more and more graphic warnings, including in the United States, but are the warnings effective enough to stop people from smoking and preventing others from ever starting?
A few months back the FDA of the United States revealed graphic images intended to be used for cigarette packs, in a bid to decrease the amount of new smokers as well as dissuade current smokers from continuing.
Judge blocks graphic cigarette warnings
A United States judge has denied the requirement set to tobacco companies to include extremely graphic images on cigarette boxes as warnings.
The ruling has given tobacco companies a temporary injunction against the FDA planned implementation of graphic warning labels onto cigarette pack, intended to dissuade people from starting smoking as well as continuing the habit.
What is the best method to quit smoking?
If you are a smoker, chances are you have thought about quitting at least once. You probably know all about the health risks associated with the habits, including an increased risk of cardiac problems and certain cancers.
You’ve likely considered the impact the expensive habit has on your bank balance, and pondered what it would be like to be free of the habit for good.
Counselling helps teens quit smoking
New study conducted in the United States suggests that counselling teenage smokers in school may help young smokers quit the habit.
Never a better time to quit smoking
The dangers of smoking are well documented, with countless studies demonstrating the myriad of ways this habit can devastate your health. The World Health Organisation has named tobacco smoking as the leading cause of preventable death in the world. Of every two people that smoke, one will die of a smoking-related illness. Despite the warnings, high numbers of people continue to smoke. One of the major reasons for this is that quitting smoking...
Smokers suffer heart attacks at a younger age, study suggests
People who smoke are more likely to have heart attacks earlier in their lives compared to non-smokers, suggests a new study from the United States.
U.S. regulator to study tobacco laws impact
The Food and Drug Administration is set to begin studying the effects of the new tobacco laws on smokers and their health.
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