Šalje: QuitSmokingSupport.com [bwprice@quitsmokingsupport.com] Poslano: 05. kolovoz 2000 13:46 Prima: List Member Predmet: QuitSmokingSupport.com Newsletter - Volume 3 Number 20 QuitSmokingSupport.com - http://www.quitsmokingsupport.com In this issue for Saturday August 5, 2000 **Some Smoking Facts** **Quitting Smoking Even Late Greatly Lowers Lung Cancer Risk** **More Americans Try To Quit Smoking** Welcome to QuitSmokingSupport.com's Newsletter! If you feel that the material in this newsletter may be of benefit to anyone that you know please feel free to pass it on! Talk to us online, powered by "Human Click" has been added to our web site which enables you to talk to us in a real time chat directly from our web site! Do you have a question you want answered related to quitting smoking? We will try and answer it at: http://www1.askme.com/ViewProfile.asp?xid=520204&cid=2706 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please visit our Bookstore in cooperation with Amazon.com. Excellent books and tapes available to help you to quit smoking! http://www.quitsmokingsupport.com/amazon.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Some Smoking Facts The more smoking cessation methods you use, the better your chance of quitting. So along with your Zyban or nicotine replacement, talk to your doctor about tips on how to quit, join a support group, and enlist your family and friends to help you. Most smokers make four attempts over the course of 15 years before they finally successfully quit, according to one Gallup poll. How do you know if you're a heavy smoker? If you smoke a pack or more a day, or need to light up within 30 minutes of waking up in the morning. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sponsors Advertisement: TRYING TO QUIT SMOKING? Using the Nicotrol Inhaler? * Harris Interactive invites you to participate in a research study designed to learn more about your experiences using the NicotrolŽ Inhaler. * Participation involves completing up to six short surveys over the next seven months, either by phone or internet. * Qualified participants will receive payment for each interview completed, totaling up to $60. * You must be over the age of 18 and using the NicotrolŽ Inhaler to enroll in this study. * For more Information Call: 1-877-889-8593 OR, go to: http://survey.harrispollonline.com/11662f.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Study: Quitting Smoking Even Late Greatly Lowers Lung Cancer Risk August 3, 2000 LONDON (AP) - Giving up smoking even late in life eliminates most of the lung cancer risk, and the risk is wiped out more than 90 percent for those who quit before they turn 35, new research indicates. Health experts have said for years that it is never too late to give up smoking. While studies have shown the effect on lung cancer rates can be dramatic, research published this week in the British Medical Journal gives the clearest evidence yet of just how beneficial it can be. The work also provides the first prediction of the number of tobacco deaths that will occur worldwide this century if smoking patterns persist - 1 billion, compared to 100 million last century - and how many deaths could be avoided if people quit. Experts call the findings a warning for public health officials to refocus their efforts on current smokers, instead of concentrating too much on trying to prevent adolescents from starting the habit. "There's been a tendency to write people off once they start smoking," said Stanton Glantz, a smoking researcher at the University of California-San Fransisco who has found similar benefits for heart disease when people quit smoking. "This is a wake-up call to the public health community that they need to get back to the population as a whole," said Glantz, who was not connected with the new research. The study by scientists at Oxford University was a follow-up of research that began after World War II, when smoking was becoming increasingly popular in Britain. In 1950, the group published a study that was credited with discovering the link between smoking and lung cancer. Lung cancer is second only to heart disease as the leading killer of smokers in Europe and the United States. Tobacco has been linked to more than 20 other diseases and kills half of lifelong smokers. Widespread dropping of the habit in Britain since the 1950 revelation has halved the number of lung cancer deaths that otherwise would be occurring, said Sir Richard Peto, who led the Oxford study. Because widespread smoking started earlier in Britain than other countries and Britons started quitting en masse first, Peto said the country has seen the world's largest decrease in lung cancer deaths - half what they would have been had no smokers quit. Britain also is experiencing the most rapid decrease worldwide in all premature deaths from tobacco. It has led the world in quitting smoking chiefly because the original study identifying the risk involved doctors, who promptly started giving up the habit, Peto said. Tobacco deaths in the United States are following the same trend as Britain, though lagging behind since the habit was taken up en masse later. Deaths among early middle-aged men started to drop in the United States in the early 1980s, compared with the early 1960s in Britain. But worldwide, smoking deaths are increasing because other countries started smoking more recently and a lag exists between taking up smoking and dying from it. Peto's findings on worldwide smoking numbers are to be published this month in the book "Global Health in the 21st Century." His research found that there already are 1 billion smokers and that, by 2030, another billion or so young adults will have started to smoke. If current smoking patterns continue, worldwide tobacco deaths will rise from 4 million a year now to about 10 million a year around 2030, an increase of about 100 million a decade, Peto estimated. If trends continue, he predicted about 15 percent of all adult death worldwide in the second half of this century will be due to tobacco. "These numbers of tobacco deaths before 2050 cannot be greatly reduced unless a substantial proportion of the adults who have already been smoking for some time give up," the study said. "A decrease over the next decade or two in the proportion of children who become smokers will not have its main effect on mortality until the third quarter of the century." The study reports trends in men because that's where the impact has shown up first, since they took up smoking earlier. Researchers say the benefits would be the same for women, however. No matter how early in life a smoker quits, some of the damage done is irreversible and the risk of lung cancer never declines to normal. Recent research has shown that starting before the age of 18 is particularly harmful to the lungs. But the latest study found that only 2 percent of those who quit by 30 developed the disease by the age of 75, compared with a 0.4 percent chance for people who have never smoked. It found that 10 percent of those who quit at 60 will die of lung cancer, and that continuing to smoke into old age results in a 16 percent risk. Peto said that if the British trends in quitting are mirrored worldwide over the next decade or two, about one third of the tobacco deaths expected by 2020 would be avoided. Smoking deaths in the second quarter of the century would be almost half of what they would otherwise be, he said. "Such changes would avoid about 20 or 30 million tobacco deaths in the first quarter of the century and would avoid about 150 million in the second quarter," his study said. Robert Smith of the American Cancer Society said he was impressed with the findings, but that it remains to be seen whether they will stimulate renewed interest in helping chronic smokers quit. "Nobody before has quantified that magnitude of benefit. We absolutely must not neglect current smokers," Smith said. "We have essentially given up on them. Giving up smoking is largely considered a private matter between a smoker and his conscience." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sponsors Advertisement: Make sure you visit QuitSmoking.com Excellent Information and Products to Help Smokers Quit! http://www.quitsmoking.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ More Americans Try To Quit Smoking July 28, 2000 ATLANTA (AP) - Americans are trying to quit smoking four times more often than they did in the years before the introduction of nicotine gum, patches and other products that help people kick the habit, the government reported Thursday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed data from pharmacies and over-the-counter purchases of smoking cessation products to conclude that Americans made more than 8 million attempts to quit smoking in 1997 and 1998, the latest years available. That's up from about 2 million in 1991, the year before the introduction of the nicotine patch. In 1998, the nicotine patch accounted for 49 percent of the drug-assisted attempts to quit, nicotine gum 28 percent and Zyban - a prescription drug - 21 percent. The nicotine inhaler and nasal spray accounted for less than 3 percent. The CDC said attempts to quit increased nearly every time a new product was made available. The CDC said the survey may overestimate attempts to quit because the numbers are based on sales data rather than questioning users. It's also impossible to determine if smokers were buying the product to quit or using it as a substitute for smoking in places where it is banned. The CDC, which says about 48 million U.S. adults smoke, did not track how many of the attempts to quit failed. Having a variety of products helps smokers find ways to quit, said Rod Todd of the American Cancer Society. ``Smokers are always looking for something that will be helpful and you never know with product might work the best for a particular smoker,'' he said. About 70 percent of people who smoke want to quit and 35 to 45 percent of them will try to quit in any given year, Todd said. It's common for smokers to go through several cycles of attempting to quit, going back to smoking and then trying to quit again. ``We know that all of these work and they've been shown to work,'' said Saul Shiffman, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh's smoking research group. ``The challenge is getting people to use them. Even though these products work and people are so eager to quit smoking, too few people use these treatments.'' The CDC recommended that smoking-cessation products be included as an insured medical benefit. The report also said decreasing the cost of treatment could increase the number of people who try to quit. ``The prevalence of smoking is higher among persons of low socio-economic status and access to these treatments must be assured to these populations,'' the report said. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Take care and have a great week! Blair support@quitsmokingsupport.com QuitSmokingSupport.com http://www.quitsmokingsupport.com ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to nosmoke-unsubscribe@listbot.com Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb