Premier Care Opens Quit Smoking Center
PR Web (press release)
To quit smoking is the single most important step a person can take to improve their health and well being stated Paul Rutkowski, Program Director for the Premier Care Nicotine Treatment Center. To quit smoking is the single most important step a …

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E-cigarette bill opponent saw smoke and mirrors
The Spokesman Review
I had the opportunity to quit smoking this last year, and I started smoking in my mid-20s. It's not the kind of thing I like to stand up and announce to the whole world, but that's what I did. … The statistics are, and it has been proven … that …

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The Nation, Pakistan

200000 fall prey to cancer every year: Samar
The Nation, Pakistan
ISLAMABAD - Health experts suggest quitting tobacco use in any form can prevent 30 per cent cancer as smoking is a leading cause of cancer in countries like Pakistan and only smoking causes an estimated 90 per cent of all lung cancer deaths in men and …
'Cancer to become common cause of death by 2020'Business Recorder (blog)

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Figures reveal we're no good at quitting
Halifax Evening Courier
That's according to figures produced by the London Health Observatory, which shows Calderdale is well below the regional average and is in the worst 25 per cent in the country for getting people to quit smoking after four weeks.

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Ottawa docs promote stop-smoking model at conference
CTV.ca
Doctors from around the world will leave Ottawa with new ideas to help patients quit smoking after their annual conference Saturday. The fourth annual Ottawa Conference promoted the Ottawa Hospital's stop-smoking model, which reaches out to smokers …
Many Smoking-Cessation Failures Linked to Lack of Professional HelpPsychiatric News
"Smoking Cessation" Conference at Chateau Laurier This Weekend580 CFRA Radio

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gulfnews.com

Twitter harder to quit than smoking
gulfnews.com
… School say their experiment, using BlackBerrys, to gauge the willpower of 205 people aged between 18 and 85 in and around the German city of Würzburg is the first to monitor such responses outside a laboratory. Twitter harder to quit than smoking.

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Tobacco is NOT an equal opportunity addictor OR killer
Milwaukee Courier Weekly Newspaper
The complexities of these disparities lead to lower quit rates among African American smokers. According to CTFK, the percentage of white smokers who ultimately quit smoking is 50.5 percent versus 35.4 percent among African American smokers.

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"Smoking Cessation" Conference at Chateau Laurier This Weekend
580 CFRA Radio
The 4th Annual Conference on "Smoking Cessation" is on at the Chateau Laurier this weekend, and the approach to dealing with smokers is changing. Smokers and non-smokers have always enjoyed an adversarial relationship, but as the smokers dwindle down …
Many Smoking-Cessation Failures Linked to Lack of Professional HelpPsychiatric News

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Resolve to quit smoking this World Cancer Day
India.Com Health
It is our duty to kick the butt not only for our own well-being but for our near and dear ones who are inhaling second-hand smoke. Smoking has no moral defence and it is our responsibility to ensure that we quit. The decision to quit smoking is the …
The next cigaretteHaaretz

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Deseret News

Idaho rep is Capitol's last cigarette smoker
Deseret News
After another Republican representative quit smoking last year, Nonini is the lone open smoker in the Idaho Legislature, a dramatic change from a quarter century ago when lawmakers smoked in caucus meetings and even during hearings on the floor of the …
Idaho House OKs e-cig ban for kids amid charges of 'nanny state'The Spokesman Review
Heard any good 'sastistics' lately?Lewiston Morning Tribune (subscription) (blog)

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