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7 Ways to Bring a Dead Friendship Back to Life
It might sound obvious, in the midst of a loneliness crisis, that having friends matters. But many of us “underestimate the very real impact our friendships can have on our life,” says Marisa Franco, a psychologist and author of Platonic: How The Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends. “Connection is the most important factor predicting our health, both physical and mental.”
A growing body of research supports that point: Healthy, stable friendships can protect against depression and anxiety, increase life satisfaction, extend longevity, and improve health metrics li...
Source: TIME: Health - August 4, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Angela Haupt Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
U.S. Adult Smoking Rate Hits New All-Time Low
NEW YORK — U.S. cigarette smoking dropped to another all-time low last year, with 1 in 9 adults saying they were current smokers, according to government survey data released Thursday. Meanwhile, electronic cigarette use rose, to about 1 in 17 adults.
The preliminary findings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are based on survey responses from more than 27,000 adults.
Cigarette smoking is a risk factor for lung cancer, heart disease, and stroke, and it’s long been considered the leading cause of preventable death.
In the mid-1960s, 42% of U.S. adults were smokers. The rate has been gradually d...
Source: TIME: Health - April 27, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mike Stobbe/AP Tags: Uncategorized Addiction healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
The final puff: Can New Zealand quit smoking for good?
Smoking kills. Ayesha Verrall has seen it up close. As a young resident physician in New Zealand’s public hospitals in the 2000s, Verrall watched smokers come into the emergency ward every night, struggling to breathe with their damaged lungs. Later, as an infectious disease specialist, she saw how smoking exacerbated illness in individuals diagnosed with tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. She would tell them: “The best thing you can do to promote your health, other than take the pills, is to quit smoking.”
Verrall is still urging citizens to give up cigarettes—no longer just one by one, but by the thousands. As New...
Source: ScienceNOW - December 9, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news
They Were Cigarette Smokers. Then a Stroke Vanquished Their Addiction.
Patients whose brain injury coincidentally relieved their nicotine cravings may help unravel the neural underpinnings of addiction, a new study suggests.
Source: NYT Health - June 13, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Benjamin Mueller Tags: Brain Stroke Nature Neuroscience (Journal) Smoking and Tobacco Addiction (Psychology) your-feed-science Source Type: news
Impact of Electronic Cigarette Vaping on Cerebral Ischemia: What We Know So Far
AbstractElectronic cigarettes (ECs) are battery-powered nicotine delivery devices that have rapidly gained popularity and attention globally. ECs work by heating a liquid to produce an aerosol that usually contains nicotine, flavoring compounds, and other chemicals, which are inhaled during vaping. EC aerosols are depicted to contain a lower number and overall quantity of harmful toxicants than conventional cigarettes (CCs). However, emerging research indicates that EC aerosols contain harmful ingredients including ultrafine particles, volatile organic compounds, and heavy metals. One common ingredient found in both CCs an...
Source: Translational Stroke Research - April 18, 2022 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
Ditching cigarettes for smokeless tobacco can help cut cardiovascular risks, study finds
Regular smokers are at heightened risk of developing cardiovascular disease, but crushing the butts in favor of a “smokeless” alternative like chewing tobacco, snuff or tobacco lozenges may go a long way toward bringing the danger down to a more normal level, a new UCLA-led study shows.The findings also indicate that the primary culprit in smokers ’ increased risk is not nicotine but other chemicals found in tobacco smoke. Both cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products contain large quantities of nicotine.The study,published today in the journal Nicotine and Tobacco Research, involved a team of researchers from UCLA...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - January 6, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Anxiety, Depression, Psychological Symptoms, Negative Effects, and Other Symptoms of Nicotine Withdrawal
This case occurred in a 33-year-old man who has been smoking for 19 years. He had a pattern of consuming 14 cigarettes per day with 30 mg of nicotine intake and high tar levels. The level of tolerance for consumption of nicotine and tar per day is 10 to 15 mg. High cigarette consumption correlates with high nicotine consumption as well. Excessive nicotine consumption over a long period can lead to lung cancer, stroke, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and psychological disorders.
Source: Addictive Disorders and Their Treatment - November 25, 2021 Category: Addiction Tags: Case Reports Source Type: research
Smoking cessation adherence:recurrent cardiovascular events after five years of first manifestation
ConclusionsSmoking cessation after a first cardiovascular event should be a key objective for both patients and physicians to reduce the risk for recurrent vascular events. More efforts are needed to maintain smoking cessation in patients at very high cardiovascular risk.Key messagesSmoking cessation consultation can increase adherence to smoking cessation and helps in reducing the excess risk of recurrent cardiovascular events.Smoking is highly addictive and cessation can be extremely difficult, even after a life-threatening vascular event.
Source: The European Journal of Public Health - October 20, 2021 Category: General Medicine Source Type: research
Temporal proteomic changes induced by nicotine in human cells: A quantitative proteomics approach
J Proteomics. 2021 Apr 22:104244. doi: 10.1016/j.jprot.2021.104244. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTNicotine is a prominent active compound in tobacco and many smoking cessation products. Some of the biological effects of nicotine are well documented in in vitro and in vivo systems; however, nominal data are available concerning the time-dependent changes on protein and phosphorylation events in response to nicotine. Here, we profiled the proteomes of SH-SY5Y and A549 cell lines subjected to acute (15 min, 1 h and 4 h) or chronic (24 h, 48 h) nicotine exposures. We used sample multiplexing (TMTpro16) and quantified more than...
Source: Journal of Proteomics - April 25, 2021 Category: Biochemistry Authors: Jos é Navarrete-Perea Steven P Gygi Joao A Paulo Source Type: research
Nicotine-induced adrenal beta-arrestin1 upregulation mediates tobacco-related hyperaldosteronism leading to cardiac dysfunction.
CONCLUSION: Adrenal βarrestin1 upregulation is one of the mechanisms by which tobacco compounds, like nicotine, promote cardio-toxic hyperaldosteronism in vitro and in vivo. Thus, adrenal βarrestin1 represents a novel therapeutic target for tobacco-related heart disease prevention or mitigation.
PMID: 32547713 [PubMed]
Source: World Journal of Cardiology - May 25, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Cora N, Ghandour J, Pollard CM, Desimine VL, Ferraino KE, Pereyra JM, Valiente R, Lymperopoulos A Tags: World J Cardiol Source Type: research
Characteristics of patients treated with nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) prescribed during hospitalization
Conclusions: The follow-up after discharge in specialized units of tobacco cessation is very low, yet the efficacy of the treatment per year was high.
Source: European Respiratory Journal - November 20, 2019 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Perez Morales, M., Espana Dominguez, C., Morales Gonzalez, M., Munoz Ramirez, I., Merino Sanchez, M., Arnedillo Munoz, A. Tags: Tobacco, smoking control and health educ. Source Type: research
Efficacy of smoking cessation with varenicline plus counselling for e-cigarettes users (VAREVAPE): A protocol for a randomized controlled trial.
Abstract
Tobacco smoking is a global pandemic that poses substantial health burdens and costs. With nearly six million deaths annually, smoking is the single most important cause of avoidable premature mortality in the world, mainly from lung cancer, coronary heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and stroke. Smoking is a very difficult addiction to break, even for those with a strong desire to quit. Electronic cigarettes are an attractive long-term alternative source of nicotine to conventional cigarettes because of their many similarities with smoking. Electronic cigarette users report buying them ...
Source: Clinical Lung Cancer - August 8, 2019 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Caponnetto P, Maglia M, Polosa R Tags: Contemp Clin Trials Commun Source Type: research
Assessment of the relationship between platelet reactivity, vascular risk factors and gender in cerebral ischaemia patients.
CONCLUSIONS: There are no differences between platelet reactivity and the incidence of aspirin resistance in patients with stroke and TIA. Male gender and smoking are associated with greater reactivity of platelets and more frequent occurrence of acetylsalicylic acid resistance in patients with cerebral ischaemia.
CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS: Dual antiplatelet therapy or clopidogrel treatment should be considered in smoking males with cerebral ischaemia due to the high risk of aspirin inefficiency.
PMID: 31343071 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Neurologia i Neurochirurgia Polska - July 24, 2019 Category: Neurology Authors: Wiśniewski A, Sikora J, Filipska K, Kozera G Tags: Neurol Neurochir Pol Source Type: research
Cost ‐effectiveness of alternative smoking cessation scenarios in Spain: results from the EQUIPTMOD
ConclusionsAccording to the EQUIPTMOD modelling tool it would be cost‐effective for the Spanish authorities to expand the reach of existing GP brief interventions for smoking cessation, provide pro‐active telephone support, and reimburse smoking cessation medication to smokers trying to stop. Such policies would more than pay for themselves in the long run.
Source: Addiction - March 13, 2018 Category: Addiction Authors: Marta Trapero ‐Bertran, Celia Muñoz, Kathryn Coyle, Doug Coyle, Adam Lester‐George, Reiner Leidl, Bertalan Németh, Kei‐Long Cheung, Subhash Pokhrel, Ángel Lopez‐Nicolás Tags: Research Report Source Type: research
