Sentences with phrase «of daily smokers»

Therefore, our estimates for the percentage of daily smokers living in homes where smoking was either not allowed (53 %) or with effective total home smoking bans (48 %) were understandably lower than the 2008 ABS estimate for those living in homes where no householder usually smoked inside (56.3 %; 95 % CI, 52.4 % — 60.2 %).

Similarly, a third of daily smokers had a history of substance abuse treatment, compared to only 17.8 % of non-daily smokers; daily smokers also currently use illegal drugs more often than non-daily smokers.

Almost a third of daily smokers were currently taking psychiatric medications compared to 18 % of non-daily smokers.

Petry and Oncken compared the demographics and current gambling and psychosocial problems of daily smokers to those of gamblers who were never daily smokers.

The relative difference is even larger when we look at the percentage of daily smokers among adolescents attending regular high - school education (5.2 %) compared with adolescents attending vocational training (28.6 % daily smokers).3

In addition, about 50 percent of daily smokers had alcohol problems, and some 24 percent had drug problems.

At the time of the first interview, about 40 percent of daily smokers suffered mood or anxiety disorders or had a history of these problems.

Over 35 percent of the daily smokers in the condition that showed vaping reported having a tobacco cigarette during the study versus 22 percent of daily smokers who saw ads without vaping, and about 23 percent of daily smokers who did not see any advertising.

Not exact matches

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

Those who smoked 1 to 29 days of the past 30 days were categorized as current nondaily smokers, and those who smoked all 30 of the past 30 days as current daily smokers.

In 2014, 28 percent of daily cigarette smokers and 13 percent of non-daily cigarette smokers aged 12 to 17 used cannabis daily, suggesting that 40 percent of 12 to 17 year olds who smoke cigarettes used cannabis daily in 2014.

While observational analyses among current smokers showed a body weight increase of 0.5 kg per 10 cigarettes smoked daily, genetic analysis in contrast showed that double carriers of the high smoking genotype had a 1.2 kg lower body weight.

While prevalence declined, because of the growth in population older than 15 years of age, there has been a continuous increase in the number of men and women who smoke daily, increasing from 721 million in 1980 to 967 million in 2012, with a 41 percent increase in the number of male daily smokers and a 7 percent increase for female smokers.

The Rutgers / Truth Initiative study goes further by examining daily use of e-cigarettes and found that nearly half (49 percent) of daily cigarette smokers have ever tried e-cigarettes.

«Former smokers who quit within the past year are four times more likely to be daily users of e-cigarettes.»

«The highest prevalence of daily e-cigarette use we observed was among current smokers and former smokers who quit within the past year.

After exclusion of five «social» smokers, the study included 42 patients who were daily smokers before cosmetic surgery.

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.

Among the 251 participants (131 daily smokers and 120 nonsmokers), 65.7 percent were men and they were an average age of 48.

75 heavy smokers meeting a set of health and lifestyle criteria were randomly divided into three groups for a double - blind placebo study, and instructed to take assigned mixed fruit and vegetable juice powder concentrate capsules twice daily (Juice Plus + ®, NSA, Collierville, TN).

Compared with nonsmokers, smokers» odds of getting the disease ranged from more than four times higher for those who smoked a daily pack for less than 20 years in a row, to nearly 70 times higher for those who did so for 80 years or more.

An earlier study by Goodwin and colleagues showed that the use of cannabis by cigarette smokers had increased dramatically over the past two decades to the point where smokers are more than 5 times as likely as nonsmokers to use marijuana daily.

Jeanne Calment, the French doyenne believed to be oldest person in the world when she died at the extreme age of 122, was known for three things: her quick wit, her fondness for bicycling around the small city where she grew up — and the fact that she was a daily smoker.

«If you showed in a similar study with a gold standard outcome [like spirometry], among smokers and nonsmokers, that you could affect the incidence of COPD, I would imagine the committees that meet on this would take a serious look at increasing daily recommended intake [of vitamin E] for the general population,» he says.

In California, the high intensity smoking prevalence of 20 or more daily cigarettes didn't differ from the rest of the US in 1965; in California, high - intensity smoking prevalence was 23.2 % in comparison to 22.9 % in the remaining US, and these smokers represented 56 % of all smokers.

«Most hookah smokers in the U.S. are not daily users, whereas many cigarette smokers smoke multiple times a day, so it may seem that the vast majority of public health and policy - related interventions should be directed at cigarette smoking,» said study author Dr. Brian Primack.

However, it requires a very strenuous effort because it is easier for a heroin addict or for a cigarette smoker to quit heroin or to quit smoking, than it is to shift from the high carb diet that we are used to, and [adopt] a ketogenic diet where carbohydrates are down to zero, and healthy fat and healthy protein constitute 90 % of the daily caloric intake.

In fact, a study of smokers found that those who consumed 3 ounces of almonds daily had lower levels of biomarkers of oxidative stress.

That could be if you 1) are a daily cigarette smoker, 2) live in a polluted city, 3) use make - up constantly, 4) eat lots of processed food, or 5) swim regularly in a chlorine pool.

In the study, 60 men and women — with half of them smokers — were given three ounces of raw watercress daily as part of a normal diet, for eight weeks.

Hence a study on 60 male smokers found that eating 84 almonds daily for 4 weeks slashed markers of oxidative stress by 23 - 24 %.

There are different levels of tobacco use from the occasional cigar smoker to the daily cigarette user.

With a few companies, Standard Plus is also available to daily cigar smokers, users of e-cigarettes, and users of chewing tobacco.

More specifically, in the group of Flemish 15 - year - olds to 16 - year - olds, 9.3 % was a daily smoker in 2008.

The proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who are current daily smokers has declined from 45 % in 2008 to 39 % in 2014.

The proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who were current daily smokers remained the same from 2008 to 2014 - 15 (41 %)

This is opposite to the declining rate of people who are current daily smokers, nationally.

The proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who were current daily smokers decreased from 46 % in 2008 to 38 % in 2014 - 15.

However, despite the decrease in the proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander daily smokers reported in 2012 - 13, the ABS estimates that health outcomes will continue to reflect the smoking patterns in 2002 as the damage from these high levels of smoking will take some time to dissipate.

Relative to non-smokers, smokers had significantly more smokers in the home (P = 0.006), were more likely to have a partner who smoked (P < 0.001, Box 3), and were less likely to report low levels of daily stress (P < 0.001).

«Smoking rates among Aboriginal people are two and a half times that of non-Indigenous Australians — 43 % of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are daily smokers.

Most employed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander daily smokers (406; 88 %) reported that smoking was not allowed in any indoor area at work, similar to the standardised estimate in Wave 8 of the Australian ITC Project study (88.5 %)(Box 1).

We compared results for daily smokers with those from Australian ITC Project surveys, which were directly standardised to the distribution of age and sex of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander smokers reported in the 2008 NATSISS.

A similar age — sex - standardised percentage of Australian daily smokers (53.4 %) reported total home smoking bans in Wave 8.5 of the Australian ITC Project study.

In 2012 — 2013, 42 % of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population aged 15 years or older were daily smokers — 2.6 times the age - standardised prevalence among other Australians.19 Australian governments aimed to halve the Indigenous Australian smoking rate by 2018 (from the 2009 baseline) through a range of Indigenous tobacco control initiatives.20 Funded by the Australian Government in support of these national initiatives, the TATS project was conducted mainly through Aboriginal community - controlled health services (ACCHSs).

Forty - two per cent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 15 years or older were daily smokers in 2012 — 2013, 2.6 times the age - standardised prevalence among other Australians.7 This is a decrease from 45 % in 2008 and 49 % in 2002, a similar rate of decline as among other Australians.7 In 2008, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders who smoked daily were less likely than other Australians to live in homes where no one usually smoked inside (56 % v 68 %).5 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander smokers with lower household incomes were significantly more likely to live in homes where someone usually smoked inside.5

We concentrated comparisons on daily smokers, due to slightly different definitions of smokers in each survey which meant that only daily and weekly smokers were directly comparable.

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).

Current smoker - Other - a respondent who reported at the time of interview that they smoked cigarettes, cigars or pipes, less frequently than daily;

[67] In 2004 — 05, half (50 %) of the adult Indigenous population were current daily (or regular) smokers, approximately twice the rate in the non-Indigenous population.