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Columbia University researchers discovered that using nicotine is a gateway for people who ultimately pass to using stronger drugs, such as cocaine. In their latest study – which was carried out on mice – the group studied the biological mechanism underlying this connection.
What researchers discovered w... |
7 November 2011
09:01 GMT |
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Very often, former smokers complain about gaining weight. Unconsciously, they associate smoking with being thin, and have more incentives to pick up the habit again. But soon, new drugs may prevent this from happening, by acting on a new class of receptors that bind to nicotine.A specific subclass of nicotine recepto... |
13 June 2011
03:24 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific study, it would appear that non-smoking individuals who are exposed to secondhand smoking tend to be exposed to high-enough doses of nicotine to raise their risk of becoming addicted to the substance.The new discoveries come on the heels of another major finding, which... |
4 May 2011
09:39 GMT |
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Investigators in Ireland managed to get some new insight into the way smokers and non-smokers' brains function. The results of the work could help people who are trying to quit smoking do so easier than currently possible. What the team was interested in finding out was whether brain activity patterns were diffe... |
28 April 2011
11:22 GMT |
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A new study conducted on unsuspecting lab mice proves yet again that nicotine itself has no effect on the growth of cancer tumors in the lung. The chemical, in moderate concentrations, does not boost growth or favor it in any way, experts say. Researchers analyzed tumors in mice, after the animals were regularly admi... |
5 April 2011
20:01 GMT |
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Scientists have recently established that smokers who are also diabetics put themselves at an increased risk of developing complications to their condition if they continue on with the habit. This effect adds to the large number of health consequences that smoking has. According to the new work, the addictive chemica... |
31 March 2011
04:44 GMT |
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A team of investigators from The Scripps Research Institute (SRI) announces the discovery of a neural pathway that dictates precisely how susceptible an individual is of getting hooked on the addictive properties of nicotine.According to the new study, the mechanism the team identified in the human brain could soon b... |
31 January 2011
03:29 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific research, it would appear that people who suffer from depression may find it harder to quit smoking if they try. The correlation held true for people who were not officially diagnosed with depression, but had the condition, too. During the research, the experts behind ... |
4 January 2011
03:57 GMT |
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Smokers looking to kick the habit and lucky enough to be residents of the UK will soon have the chance to do so, thanks to a new £250 million initiative of the NHS, offering free nicotine patches with the already available kits. The UK is among of the countries that invest big in the prevention of smoking and i... |
27 December 2010
15:01 GMT |
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A new study carried out by a team of researchers from Penn State University, the University of Miami, the University of California at San Francisco and the University of Minnesota Medical School, concluded that menthol cigarettes are harder to quit than regular ones, especially for some teenagers and African-America... |
21 December 2010
03:19 GMT |
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E-cigarettes, officially called 'electronic nicotine delivery systems,' are more and more popular among smokers who want to reduce the risks of smoking-related cancers but will not give up their favorite vice – nicotine.They are available worldwide and in the US, you can find them in shopping malls in... |
4 December 2010
06:15 GMT |
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A team of researchers at the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center at the University of California, San Francisco, and Pfizer Inc., have identified two new compounds that can be very efficient in helping people get rid of their alcohol and nicotine addictions, at the same time.Like most findings, this one too was m... |
3 November 2010
11:13 GMT |
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Nicotine is bad for you and apparently it has the same poisonous effect on pests, getting scientists' attention for a potential alternative to traditional commercial pesticides.Tobacco and nicotine make one of the-hardest-to-get-rid-of vices of modern society – smoking, which can lead to lung cancer and ea... |
28 October 2010
04:28 GMT |
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Despite a large number of measures taken to curb smoking among all age groups, authorities in the United States have failed to cut down the number of smokers considerably. Some are beginning to wonder if the fight can be won at all. Considering the measures taken against the tobacco industry, this becomes a very vali... |
20 October 2010
05:23 GMT |
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A new series of investigation on how nicotine affects the human brain could lead to the development of new therapies against this addiction, as well as to the creation of treatments for Parkinson's, schizophrenia, and other neurological conditions. According to investigators, the first puff out of a cigarette sh... |
23 September 2010
06:07 GMT |
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Smokeless tobacco products are not a safe nor an efficient option for people who want to stop smoking, an American Heart Association policy statement says.The AHA warns that this type of products should not be used as a replacement for cigarettes or in order to stop smoking because they have a risk of addiction and r... |
14 September 2010
10:47 GMT |
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Combining nicotine and ozone is probably not such a good idea, given that the reaction is responsible for producing minute particles that severely affect the health of asthma sufferers. In their bid to ensure that their clientele enjoys the best possible conditions, many hotels clean the smell of tobacco from their r... |
17 August 2010
03:33 GMT |
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Scientists have recently determined that people who have difficulties reducing the amount of cigarettes they smoke each day, or who cannot quit the habit, may have their efforts hampered by their genes. The team identified three genetic mutations that appear to be directly linked to the number of cigarettes smokers l... |
27 April 2010
04:35 GMT |
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As all smokers who tried to quit and failed must know, relinquishing the habit is almost never an easy task. Most people set up various schedules for dropping cigarettes, promising themselves rewards, or replacing smoking with another, less harmful habit. Even then, only a part of all those who are trying to quit man... |
9 April 2010
14:01 GMT |
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Scientists have recently determined that bees, like humans, also have a weak spot for addiction, especially when it comes to coffee and cigarettes. The investigation revealed that, when faced with a choice, bees always preferred pollen that was naturally “spiced up” with either nicotine or caffeine, or bo... |
17 February 2010
02:30 GMT |
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Though the level of nicotine addiction in the general population has somewhat decreased over the past decade, some groups have been left behind, in the sense that authorities failed to comprehend the specific factors that dictate their ability to quit smoking or not. These divisions of the population include those fr... |
13 February 2010
06:00 GMT |
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The effects of smoking on one's health have long since been established. The harms of second-hand smoking have also been carefully investigated, and its threat level assessed. But very few investigators ever considered the influence of so-called “third-hand” smoking on people's health. Researche... |
9 February 2010
06:59 GMT |
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According to researchers, it may be that using nicotine patches for 24 weeks, rather than the standard, recommended time of eight weeks, may help smokers quit the habit more efficiently. Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine say that patches indeed help people who made it their New Year'... |
2 February 2010
07:02 GMT |
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According to a new scientific research, published by experts at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, despite recent progress with programs designed to reduce the number of smokers in the United States, the prevalence of the habit has remained high, and has actually increased among specific groups.... |
4 July 2009
05:40 GMT |
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Many adults around the world, who have become aware of the effects of tobacco over the years, and also have begun to experience the negative effects, are constantly trying to quit the habit. While some of them have succeeded through sheer will power, others find it very difficult, and may use some help from professio... |
26 May 2009
10:50 GMT |
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African Americans may be more predisposed to developing nicotine addiction than their paler-skinned peers, a new scientific study has determined. The paper also reveals the fact that obtained darker skin, as in that obtained from prolonged sun exposure, and not through genetics, from mother to infants, is especially ... |
9 May 2009
06:55 GMT |
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A new research shows that a lot of college women do not want to quit smoking, because they think this habit keeps their weight under control. Popular belief has it that, when you kick the habit, your weight spirals out of control, and most of the college-aged girls between 18 and 24 years old who smoke do not even wa... |
26 April 2009
03:01 GMT |
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Researchers at the University of California in Irvine (UCI) have recently conducted a scientific experiment aimed at understanding how people's anger response changes when they consume nicotine. The fact that smoking eases stress is well-known, but exactly how nicotine influences the brain has remained a mystery... |
24 April 2009
16:01 GMT |
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Quitting smoking, just like with any addiction, can be a difficult and, most of the times, frustrating process. Given the fact that many smokers find the nicotine-replacement therapy (NRT) helpful, researchers at the University of Birmingham have set out to determine just how successful NRT is in terms of the smokers... |
6 April 2009
09:54 GMT |
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Scientific opinions on nicotine are a bit contradictory at the moment, with some researches showing that the compounds found in tobacco are linked to lung cancer, and others arguing that some of the chemicals in the stuff may actually have a bright side too. Now, a new study from experts at the Brown University comes... |
6 April 2009
04:45 GMT |
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Scientists from the Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere at the Kyoto University in Japan have managed to identify the main gene responsible for carrying nicotine produced in the roots of the tobacco plants to its leaves. The team says that a new variety of the plant could be synthesized, one that would no... |
22 January 2009
12:11 GMT |
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Researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, say that women can quit smoking just as easily as men, but that they require a different kind of support than men do in order to succeed. Though the scientists have found no relevant differences between the numbers of men and women that managed to stay free of s... |
17 December 2008
03:30 GMT |
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A new scientific study proved that families in which only the fathers smoke are more exposed to the effects of nicotine, the active substance in tobacco, than similar ones, where adults do not smoke at all, or where the father takes it outside. The survey, published in the November 15th issue of the American Journal ... |
21 November 2008
09:28 GMT |
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It has always been marketed and believed that light cigarettes only deliver smaller quantities of nicotine to the brain receptors than the regular ones. A recent study proves otherwise, specifically that the nicotine impact of the two cigarette types is sensitively similar.A new UCLA research has proved that the fact... |
29 September 2008
05:03 GMT |
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Age and certain genetic variations could greatly affect one later in life whether or not one becomes a heavy smoker, says a study conducted by the University of Utah in collaboration with researchers of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, again bringing to attention the dangers to which the young are exposed while s... |
14 July 2008
04:35 GMT |
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5.4 million people die annually because of diseases caused by tobacco smoking, which means about one person every 8 seconds. On top of that, the number of these deaths is increasing in low-income countries. Tobacco smoke contains tar, a mix of about 4,000 chemicals. 43 of these molecules are known to cause cancer, li... |
30 April 2008
10:18 GMT |
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A cigarette for calming you before going to bed? Bad news: a new study reveals that smokers are 4 times more exposed than non-smokers to sleep impairment, experiencing less of the resting deep sleep, especially in the early stages of sleep. This may be connected to a nicotine withdrawal experienced each night. "It is... |
6 February 2008
06:15 GMT |
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Quitting smoking is as tough as renouncing no matter what drug: the nicotine craving is deeply wired to your neurons. When Chantix entered the market in 2006, it appeared as a miracle drug devoid of side effects. "The pill took care of the actual addiction, the physical part of it. The other thing was just the habit ... |
4 December 2007
05:49 GMT |
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Smoking is not exactly the healthiest thing to do, neither for the actual smoker nor for the persons around him/her. And while, after all, smoking is a question of personal choice, the fact of the matter is that people that are unavoidably found in the close vicinity of a smoker should not be subjected to the dangers... |
18 September 2007
13:21 GMT |
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Smoking mothers are themselves responsible for this: nicotine in their breast milk shortens baby's sleep time, as found by a new research made at the Monell Chemical Senses Center. "Infants spent less time sleeping overall and woke up from naps sooner when their mothers smoked prior to breastfeeding," said lead ... |
5 September 2007
06:06 GMT |
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The invisible villain attaches to your brain cells while you're smoking. But how does the state of high invade a smoker's brain? It appears that sugar is the cause. A new research made at University of Southern California reveals the role of sugar as the hinge that opens a gate in the cell membrane and info... |
23 July 2007
02:58 GMT |
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Smoking is a sexy gesture, you're so attractive with the cigarette in your mouth! Many smokers struggle for many years to quit without any success and if you think you can play with smoking, look what has just found out a new research: 10 % of youth that got hooked, became tobacco addicted within two days from f... |
5 July 2007
08:59 GMT |
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If your health does not matter as much to you as to make you quit smoking, if the fact that the smokers' sperm can produce malformed children does not affect you, at least the fact that smoking really affects the health of your children should worry you. A team of researchers from University of Leicester Medica... |
19 June 2007
06:04 GMT |
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With tobacco restrictions or bans taking effect in 33 countries (and rising), smokers face the truth: to "make" smoke, or not to "make" smoke. Nicotine patches or nicotine gums are products that are trying to help smokers quit. Well, what if you can smoke without actually polluting the atmosphere? Here's a smoki... |
18 March 2007
03:06 GMT |
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