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"What we’re trying to do here is just to have people who smoke recognize themselves in these ads and think about the more short-term, day-to-day effects of smoking." – Lena Dibble "What we're trying to do here is just to have people who smoke recognize themselves in these ads and think about the more short-term, day-to-day effects of smoking." - Lena Dibble
Heart Patients Who Quit Smoking Live Longer It is never too late to stop smoking. A recent study found that heart attack survivors who quit smoking live longer than those who maintain the habit. The data even showed that simply cutting back on the amount of cigarettes heart attack survivors smoke provides them with some survival advantage. During the 13-year study period, first-time heart attack sufferers who ...
"What we’re looking at, if the funds were lost, is a huge loss in these programs and also a loss in cost-effectiveness to the state. This would mean a big change for us." – Lena Dibble "What we're looking at, if the funds were lost, is a huge loss in these programs and also a loss in cost-effectiveness to the state. This would mean a big change for us." - Lena Dibble
Text Messages Help Smokers Quit Encouraging text messages could help smokers kick the habit. A recent study of 5,800 UK smokers who wanted to quit found that they were twice as likely to succeed when they received messages of encouragement on their cell phones. Those who received the texts got five messages a day for five weeks and then three a week for about the ...
Shirley the Orangutan Kicks the Habit Shirley is a 20-year-old orangutan, and she is being forced to quit smoking. Authorities seized her from the state-run zoo in Johor, Malaysia, after she and several other animals there were deemed to be living in poor conditions. She is thought to have learned to smoke by mimicking people who were smoking around her and was often observed smoking cigarettes ...