Sentences with phrase «number of smokers quitting»

«Result in large number of smokers quitting»: The panel unanimously concluded that PMI demonstrated a «low» likelihood that former smokers would re-initiate tobacco use with the IQOS system.

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Smokers trying to quit through vaping should try different nicotine levels depending on the number of sticks you smoke daily.

Look at whether the plain packaging of tobacco products could be an effective way to reduce the number of young people who take up smoking and to support adult smokers who want to quit, and consult on options by the end of the year.

The Canadian government has not approved the sale of e-cigarettes containing nicotine, despite an increasing number of smokers using the products to help them quit or during times when smoking is not allowed.

20 per cent of smokers said the ban had helped them cut down the number of cigarettes they smoke, and an impressive 14 per cent of ex-smokers credit the ban with helping them quit altogether.

«Smoking cessation drug not boosting number of smokers who quit.»

Because most clinicians are likely to see smokers at times when a quit date in the next month is not planned, the current study indicates that prescription of varenicline with a recommendation to reduce the number of cigarettes smoked per day with the eventual goal of quitting could be a useful therapeutic option for this population of smokers.

Jon O. Ebbert, M.D., M.Sc., of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., and colleagues randomly assigned 1,510 cigarette smokers to 24 weeks of varenicline or placebo with a reduction target of 50 percent or more in number of cigarettes smoked by 4 weeks, 75 percent or more by 8 weeks, and a quit attempt by 12 weeks.

In a telephone survey of 1,000 current daily cigarette smokers, 44 percent reported a preference to quit through reduction in the number of cigarettes smoked, and 68 percent would consider using a medication to facilitate smoking reduction.

«E-cigarettes will likely cause more public health harm than public health benefit unless ways can be found to substantially decrease the number of adolescents and young adults who vape and increase the number of smokers who use e-cigarettes to successfully quit smoking,» says Soneji.

«Although the tobacco industry markets e-cigarettes as a tool to help adult smokers quit smoking, e-cigarette use actually only marginally increases the number of adult cigarette smokers who are able to successfully quit,» says principle investigator Samir Soneji, PhD, Associate Professor at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.

4/4/2007 Smoking Cessation Rates Are Up, Cigarette Consumption Is Down, Says UCSD Study of California's Tobacco Control Program Since the advent of the California Tobacco Control Program, in 1989, the state's young adult smokers are quitting the habit in record numbers and older smokers are consuming far fewer cigarettes, according to a new series of studies from the Moores C...

They are very popular with those who are trying to quit smoking cigarettes, and every year the number of smokers in the U.S. declines.

In the baseline survey (Wave 1) at each site, we aimed to survey samples of 50 smokers or recent ex-smokers (who had quit ≤ 12 months previously, to examine relapse) and 25 non-smokers (never - smokers and ex-smokers who had quit > 12 months previously) from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community, with equal numbers of men and women and in each of two age groups (18 — 34 and ≥ 35 years).

We also relied on self - report of smoking status, and this has been shown to underestimate numbers of pregnant smokers.25 Our data on smoking behaviours of mothers and household members were limited — we did not collect data on pregnant women's smoking history or on previous quit attempts.

However, similar proportions of smokers in our sample and the NATSISS reported having attempted to quit in the past year, and daily smokers reported similar numbers of cigarettes smoked per day (Box 3).