Smoking is one of the major risk factors for cancer, respiratory disease, and cardiovascular disease. Smoking tobacco is a risk factor that can be changed — by quitting permanently. Unfortunately, quitting smoking is much easier said than done. So how can we best help smokers to quit? Which of the smoking cessation aids works best? [...]

Breathers United is a movement created by the Ontario Lung Health Alliance to give Ontarians a voice to help make lung health a priority in our province.  The goal of the campaign is to increase the profile of lung health in the province and to encourage Ontario to make lung health a priority.  Specifically, the [...]

Just this past Thursday (May 31, 2012), also labeled as World No Tobacco Day, the Ontario Lung Association has released a new smoking cessation workbook called journey 2 Quit.  This interactive book is divided into three sections that aims to help smokers 1) prepare for the new change 2) devise a plan and make the [...]

As I was reading the Canadian Healthcare Network news this morning, I noticed an ad for a new product – Nicorette QuickMist. Although it is not listed on the Canadian Nicorette website, it is a product on the UK website. This product is a unique form of nicotine replacement therapy, an instant release mouth spray [...]

…while only seven percent of babies born to those who did not use nicotine at all had colic, nine percent of babies whose moms smoked and eleven percent of babies whose moms used NRT had colic…

This valentines day, give your patients one more reason to quit smoking. In a UK survey amongst 18-24 year olds, seventy-five percent of people said they would not kiss someone who had recently smoked. Half of the 1,700 people interviewed said they would think twice about starting a relationship with a heavy smoker. Online dating [...]