Šalje: QuitSmokingSupport.com [support@quitsmokingsupport.com] Poslano: 7. veljača 2001 12:26 Prima: List Member Predmet: QuitSmoking Newsletter - Volume 4 Number 6 QuitSmokingSupport.com - http://www.quitsmokingsupport.com --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ..................................................................... Wednesday February 7, 2001 *** Volume 4 Number 6 *** ..................................................................... ...IN THIS ISSUE... 1 What's New on QuitSmokingSupport.com 2. Kick the habit... 3. More Americans trying to quit smoking! ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` A MESSAGE FROM OUR SPONSORS: Quit Smoking with the help of an artificial cigarette. 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This powerful interactive guide shadows you throughout the day, initially assessing your habit, then advising you, monitoring your progress, supporting and inspiring you, until you reach your ultimate goal of being a non-smoker. Visit: http://www.SmokerSaver.com for more information! ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` ========> 1. What's New on QuitSmokingSupport.com Thinking about quitting smoking? Get some of the most interactive online support available at: http://network54.com/Hide/Forum/76750 Visit our Amazon.com bookstore at: http://www.quitsmokingsupport.com/amazon.htm Over 15 excellent quitting smoking books to help you to quit smoking! Add your name to our growing list of over 3,300 ex-smokers at: http://www.quitsmokingsupport.com/feedback.htm ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` ========> 2. Kick the habit... Kick the habit: New U center studies the origins of addiction Sean Madigan - Staff Reporter With the new year several weeks old, typical resolutions like quitting smoking or cutting back on caffeine consumption are testing students' willpower. But while students deal with the aftermath of addiction, like irritability and sleeplessness, Dr. Horace Loh and his colleagues search the brain for what causes the addiction in the first place. Loh and eight other University researchers received a $5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to establish the Drug Addiction Research Center in Molecular and Cellular Biology. Boynton Health Service employee Kusuma Madamala said almost 36 percent of University students have used some sort of tobacco in the last 30 days, according to a 1998 student health survey. More than 13.5 percent of students used marijuana or hashish and .2 percent used opiates, heroin or morphine in the last 30 days. While other drug research centers focus on the abuse of these drugs, the University's is the first to focus on the cellular and molecular level, said Loh, who is head of the Department of Pharmacology. "The University of Minnesota is clearly among the leaders in the world as far as breadth and depth of scientists studying drug abuse," said Dr. Robert Elde, dean of the College of Biological Sciences. "A lot more synergy comes out of a center than an individual research grant," he added. The center uses an inter-disciplinary approach to research, Loh said. "The center brings together eight scientists with different expertise in different areas," said Loh, who is the center's director. Scientists from the departments of pharmacology, biochemistry and surgery and the College of Biological Sciences will study the effects of nicotine, caffeine, marijuana and opiates on cells and how the drugs create cravings within the cell tissue of the brain. "Why you crave an addiction can be found somewhere in your cells," Loh said. "Addiction is not, `I'm a bad person because I smoke pot.' Addiction is a disease." Loh maintained that addiction is a disease just like heart disease or liver disease. Just like research for other diseases, the ultimate goal for the center is to find out how to design better drugs. Loh uses aspirin to illustrate his point. Although aspirin is used primarily to treat pain, it causes side effects such as stomach pain. Like aspirin, morphine is also used to treat and alleviate pain but is highly addictive. Through cellular research, Loh said it will one day be possible to isolate the good effects of morphine and develop a new version of the drug without the addictive side effects. ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` ========> 3. More Americans trying to quit smoking! Novemebr 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. ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` The contents of this newsletter do not necessarily reflect the opinions of QuitSmokingSupport.com. 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