If smokers didn't have enough reasons to stop smoking before April 1st, the tobacco tax increase implemented on Wednesday might be enough to force them to give it a try. Tax climbed from 39 cents per-pack $1.01. Hitting smokers in the pocket might be what it takes to get them to stop smoking.
Dr. Timothy Gardner, president of the American Heart Association said, "Every time that the tax on tobacco goes up, the use of cigarettes goes down."
You can buy Chantix, choose non-smoking friends, join support groups, or be incentivized by cash as all of these have been proven to help smokers quit.
While Chantix studies have concluded that
44% of Chantix users quit smoking after 9 to 12 weeks of Chantix treatment, friendships, support groups, and money all play a part in helping smokers quit.
A recent experiment with hundreds of General Electric Company workers concluded that those who were paid up to $750 to quit smoking were still tobacco-free about a year later. This is 3 times the success rate of a comparison group that got no such bonuses.
Last year the
New England Journal of Medicine published a study that found that a spouse who quits smoking makes one 67% less likely to smoke and a friend's quitting decreases one's chance of smoking by 36%.
The New England Journal of Medicine also
published a study that found smokers tend to quit in groups and that real-life social networks add to the pressure to quit and concluded that an environment of mutual encouragement and support helps when you want to quit smoking.
If your cholesterol tests show elevated blood cholesterol levels are you more likely to develop Alzheimer's than those with low cholesterol? According to a recent study if you are a man or woman in your early 40's then this could be the case.
Cholesterol values were obtained for 9,752 men and women who were in their 40's from 1964 through 1973. The study found that 504 had developed Alzheimer's by 2007. The researchers found that people whose cholesterol tests revealed cholesterol values of 249 to 500 milligrams per deciliter were 1.5 times more likely to develop Alzheimer's than those with cholesterol less than 198. Those will cholesterol of 221 to 248 were 1.25 times more likely to develop the disease.
Do you need to take another look at your cholesterol test? A recent study,
called JUPITER, showed that giving a cholesterol-lowering statin to older people with normal
LDL (less than 130 mg/dl) cut their risk of heart attack and stroke in half. The trial was aimed at determining the importance of lowering
C-reactive protein, or CRP, in men and women.
Does this mean that what has typically been accepted as "normal" LDL results from cholesterol tests is wrong? Current guidelines recommend that doctors prescribe a statin for anyone whose LDL is 100 mg/dl or higher. It will be interesting to see if this leads to a re-evaluation of how cholesterol tests are evaluated.
As if there aren't enough reasons to stop smoking a study was released last year that links smoking and hair loss. A report in the BMJ looked at more than 600 men and women, half of them smokers. Researchers found a significant and consistent link between smoking and early graying. Another group studied the link in a group of 740 men and found a greater rate of hair loss among the smokers, one that grew with increasing smoking.
Chantix has proven to help people quit smoking with a steady step by step approach. In studies, 44% of Chantix quit smoking during weeks 9 to 12 of treatment.
A recent study showed that men and women in their early 40's with elevated blood cholesterol levels are more likely to develop Alzheimer's than those with low cholesterol. This study was conducted by Alina Solomon of the University of Kuopio in Finland, Rachel Whitmer of the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Oakland, and their colleagues. This report is one of the largest to link cholesterol to the degenerative brain disease.
Researchers found that people who had cholesterol values of 249 to 500 milligrams per deciliter were 1.5 times more likely to develop Alzheimer's than those with cholesterol less than 198. Those with cholesterol of 221 to 248 were 1.25 times more likely to develop the disease.
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