Hello Forum Users! CPhA’s QUIT Support Forum is moving to a new home! As of February 28, 2013 we will no longer posting new content on this platform. Instead, we invite you all to join us at the Smoking Cessation discussion community on MyCPhA, a new secure website for pharmacists to learn, network and share [...]

Original article by:MS McDermott, E Beard, LS Brose, R West, A McEwan Introduction: Behavioural support improves smokers’ chances of quitting, but quit rates are typically lower for smokers supported by ‘community practitioners’ for whom smoking cessation is a small part of their job than for those supported by ‘specialist practitioners’ for whom it is the [...]

Cardiac arrest chance almost doubles for female smokers By Sharon Kirkey, Postmedia NewsDecember 12, 2012 9:37 AM Read more: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/health/cigarette+raises+risk+death+study+finds/7684938/story.html#ixzz2ErHMK5iD Even a small amount of smoking appears to nearly double a woman’s risk of  sudden cardiac death, according to research. Based on an analysis of more than 100,000 women enrolled in the massive U.S.  Nurses’ [...]

The psychological impact of quitting smoking on a person’s well-being is often overlooked. A well-designed study published in the new December issue of Annals of Behavioral Medicine offers comfort for smokers who are gearing up to take the plunge as the new year approaches.[1] The innovative study of 572 smokers, done by a team of [...]

By: Jonah Comstock | Nov 16, 2012    This week, the Cochrane Library published a review of mobile messaging-based smoking cessation interventions. The report found that, based on five studies, with a total of more than 9,000 participants, smokers who used mobile messaging interventions were twice as likely to make it six months without smoking than those [...]

Dangers of Second-Generation Smoke Nicotine leaves epigenetic marks on the rat genome that make offspring and grand-offspring more prone to asthma. By Beth Marie Mole |November 5, 2012 Pregnant rats given nicotine produced asthmatic pups that went on to produce their own asthmatic pups, despite the absence of nicotine exposure in the third generation, according [...]