House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair John Dingell (D-Mich.) postponed until Thursday a planned vote on legislation ( [click link for full article]

Caryn Lerman, PhD, Deputy Director, of the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania, has been awarded the 22nd Annual Alton Ochsner Award Relating Smoking and Health.The award will be presented to Lerman for her work on pharmacogenetic approaches to nicotine dependence treatment at the annual convention of the American College of Chest Physicians on October 21st, 2007, in Chicago.Dr. Lerman is the Mary W. [click link for full article]

When you decide to have another try at forgoing the evil weed, you can always benefit from some quit smoking tips. Wouldn’t life be wonderful if you could quit smoking whenever you pleased? Well, unfortunately, life isn’t that easy but in the mean time, here are some pearls of wisdom that may help you quit smoking.

It is difficult for people to quit smoking (or so we are told) and until you actually realise it can be easy you could benefit from some quit smoking tips. You will need help to keep you off the smokes as long as you have this negative attitude to quitting. The following is a list of widely accepted tricks to help you get through the process of quitting.

Hospitalized patients make a great captive audience for smoking cessation efforts, according to a new systematic review.The researchers found that when smokers become hospital inpatients, regardless of the reason for admission, they are receptive to efforts to help them to quit smoking after discharge and more likely succeed in the long run. [click link for full article]

It took me two weeks to start smoking and twenty five years to quit! I tried every method under the sun. If I could quit then so can you! Take heart and read this article.