There were no significant differences in periodontal health between never-smokers and those who had quit smoking after age 26.Current and long-term smoking in young adults is detrimental to periodontal health, but smoking cessation may be associated with a relatively rapid improvement in the period...
and propagandize of quitting is worldwide to make people realize that a variety of diseases caused by smoking is not irreversible. Health can be restored as long as smoking cessation. Only when the smokers are truly determined to build a new lifestyle can they get rid of this kind of bad ...
This paper uses the work of Bourdieu to theorise smoking and cessation through a class lens, showing that the struggle for distinction created the social gradient in smoking, with smoking stigma operating as a proxy for class stigma. This led to increased policy focus on the health of bystander...
smoking cessation by health care providers than non-Hispanic Whites,1 and Hispanic/Latino smokers face more barriers when they attempt to quit smoking.2 Barriers to quitting smoking not only decrease the success rate of smoking cessation for smokers, but it also aggravate disparities among smokers....
Quitting smoking (smoking cessation) is one of the most important things you can do to improve your health and well-being. People who stop smoking decrease their risk of cancer, heart disease, stroke, and early death. Women who stop smoking before or during pregnancy reduce their risk of inf...
Smoking and Maternal Health: Evidence that Female Infertility Can Be Attributed to Smoking and Improved with Smoking Cessation Author links open overlay panelJulia M.SteedPhD, APRN, FNP-BC, CTTSaShaunnaParkerAPRN, WHNP-BCbBreiaReedMScShow more...
An essential treatment intervention is placing smoking and smoking cessation prominently on the healthcare agenda. Ignoring this issue has the opposite effect—silence implies consent. Imagine if healthcare professionals were to remain silent when there were indications that someone had can...
Data suggested that smoking cessation before age 40 years brought overall mortality back to the level of nonsmokers as early as the third year after quitting.
Not only have we have trained and created a critical mass of smoking cessation counselors, their practices have also benefited the smokers in the community. More education and training programs are needed to create an even larger critical mass of health care professionals to fight the tobacco ...
However, when the community smokers were asked about more specific advice they had received to help them stop smoking, only 13% had received advice regarding nicotine replacement therapies and under 5% had been given the telephone number of a smoking cessation support service (Smokers Quitline). ...