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Reduction of Tumorigenicity of Cigarette Smoke

JAMA, 1965
A study of different types of cigarettes has demonstrated that the tumorigenic activity of cigarette smoke condensate for the experimental animal can be significantly reduced through practical means. It has been shown that a combination of modifications in the makeup of cigarettes, with respect to reduction of total smoke condensate yield, selective ...
E L, WYNDER, D, HOFFMANN
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Adolescents' Perceptions of Smoking and Stress Reduction

Health Education & Behavior, 2008
The present study examined how adolescents perceive the relationship between smoking and stress and where they learn that smoking cigarettes may be an effective stress-reduction mechanism. Eight focus groups were conducted with low-income African American and European American 14- to 16-year-olds in urban and rural locations, in which they suggested ...
Monica B, Scales, Jennifer L, Monahan, Nancy, Rhodes, David, Roskos-Ewoldsen, Ashani, Johnson-Turbes   +4 more
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Breast Reduction and Smoking

Annals of Plastic Surgery, 2005
To investigate the influence of smoking on the occurrence of complications in patients undergoing breast reduction, a retrospective case note study was performed. Seventy-one patients who had 118 reduction mammoplasties between April 2001 and March 2002 were analyzed; 15.5% (11/71) of all patients suffered a complication.
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Risk reduction: Perioperative smoking intervention

Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology, 2006
Smoking is a well-known risk factor for perioperative complications. Smokers experience an increased incidence of respiratory complications during anaesthesia and an increased risk of postoperative cardiopulmonary complications, infections and impaired wound healing. Smokers have a greater risk of postoperative intensive care admission.
Møller, Ann, Tønnesen, Hanne
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Situational Typing and Graded Smoking Reduction

Psychological Reports, 1993
Twenty-seven smokers were classified pretreatment according to whether they reported high craving to smoke when they were actively engaged ( n = 14) in a task or not ( n = 13). Both groups reported reduced smoking and craving during a situation-based reduction program.
K, O'Connor, R, Langlois
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Effects of smoking cessation and reduction in asthmatics

Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 2005
The present study examined the effect of smoking reduction and cessation on asthma regulation and biomarkers of exposure to cigarette smoke. In a prospective open design, we allocated 220 asthmatics among three groups: (a) Smoking reduction (reducers), with the aim of smoking fewer than seven cigarettes per day, (b) complete smoking cessation ...
Philip, Tønnesen, Charlotta, Pisinger, Søren, Hvidberg, Poul, Wennike, Linda, Bremann, Ake, Westin, Carsten, Thomsen, Fredrik, Nilsson   +7 more
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Smoking reduction in a population-based cohort

Preventive Medicine, 2005
To describe the factors associated with smoking reduction in a population-based cohort study in Cornella de Llobregat (Barcelona, Spain).We used data from the Cornella Health Interview Survey Follow-up Study (n = 2,500). We included for the analysis those subjects who declared to be daily smokers at baseline (1994) and continued smoking after eight ...
Montse, Garcia, Esteve, Fernandez, Anna, Schiaffino, Mercè, Peris, Josep Maria, Borràs   +4 more
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Smoking reduction in the Lung Health Study

Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 2004
We examined the ability of smokers who failed to quit smoking in the Lung Health Study to reduce the number of cigarettes per day and maintain this reduction and whether reduction predicted increased or decreased future cessation. In the Lung Health Study, among smokers with early lung disease who wished to stop smoking, 3923 were randomized to a ...
John, Hughes, Paula, Lindgren, John, Connett, Mitchell, Nides   +3 more
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Smoking: Harm reduction versus abstinence

Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, 2012
Is there a time when it would be more harmful to encourage a patient to quit smoking? I had a patient who was a 60-year-old man with an extensive cardiovascular disease history, which included four stents, who most recently presented with an S-T elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) to the psychiatric emergency room complaining of a panic attack. The
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Tobacco Smoking, Harm Reduction, and Biomarkers

JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2002
The only known way to reduce cancer risk in smokers is complete cessation, but many smokers are unable or unwilling to quit. Consequently, tobacco companies are now marketing products that purport to reduce carcinogen exposure, with the implication that such products provide a safer way to smoke.
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