Electronic cigarettes should be evaluated, regulated, labeled and packaged in a manner consistent with cartridge content and product effect — even if that effect is a total failure to deliver nicotine as demonstrated in a study supported by the National Cancer Institute and led by a Virginia Commonwealth University researcher. ... read more >>
Archive for the ‘Nicotine’ Category
Study Reveals Need to Evaluate and Regulate ‘Electronic Cigarettes’
Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Using Nicotine Patch Longer Boosts Efforts to Quit
Thursday, February 4th, 2010
Extended use of nicotine patches improves the likelihood that smokers will be able to kick the habit and reduces the risk that they’ll start smoking again, a new study has found. The study included 568 adults who smoked 10 or more cigarettes a day for at least the past year. The smokers who used nicotine patches for the entire 24 weeks of the study (extended therapy) were about twice as likely to quit smoking as those who used nicotine patches for eight weeks and then received placebo patches for the remainder of the study. Standard therapy — as recommended by manufacturers — is eight weeks. ... read more >>
Extended use of nicotine patches improves the likelihood that smokers will be able to kick the habit and reduces the risk that they’ll start smoking again, a new study has found. The study included 568 adults who smoked 10 or more cigarettes a day for at least the past year. The smokers who used nicotine patches for the entire 24 weeks of the study (extended therapy) were about twice as likely to quit smoking as those who used nicotine patches for eight weeks and then received placebo patches for the remainder of the study. Standard therapy — as recommended by manufacturers — is eight weeks. ... read more >>
Targacept says it has received $200 million payment from drug-maker
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
Targacept Inc. said today that it has received a $200 million upfront payment from AstraZeneca PLC regarding their partnership on a drug compound targeting major depressive disorder. The companies said on Dec. 3 that they had signed a licensing agreement that could be worth up to $1.24 billion for Targacept. ... read more >>
Targacept Inc. said today that it has received a $200 million upfront payment from AstraZeneca PLC regarding their partnership on a drug compound targeting major depressive disorder. The companies said on Dec. 3 that they had signed a licensing agreement that could be worth up to $1.24 billion for Targacept. ... read more >>
Cigarette craving hurts cognition
Friday, December 18th, 2009
Craving a cigarette while performing a cognitive task increases the chances of a person’s mind wandering, University of Pittsburgh researchers suggest. ... read more >>
Craving a cigarette while performing a cognitive task increases the chances of a person’s mind wandering, University of Pittsburgh researchers suggest. ... read more >>
Easily led ‘ash-tray’: Adolescent smokers prone to drug abuse
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
It is common knowledge that smoking is a health risk but why do teens become addicted to smoking more easily than adults? In an evaluation for Faculty of 1000 Biology, Neil Grunberg looks into why adolescents are more prone to substance abuse. Grunberg describes the study, published by Natividad et al. in Synapse journal, as “fascinating” and suggests it “may have implications to help understand why adolescents are particularly prone to drug abuse”. ... read more >>
It is common knowledge that smoking is a health risk but why do teens become addicted to smoking more easily than adults? In an evaluation for Faculty of 1000 Biology, Neil Grunberg looks into why adolescents are more prone to substance abuse. Grunberg describes the study, published by Natividad et al. in Synapse journal, as “fascinating” and suggests it “may have implications to help understand why adolescents are particularly prone to drug abuse”. ... read more >>
Waterpipes No Safer Than Cigarettes: Study
Friday, December 11th, 2009
If you thought that smoking tobacco through a waterpipe was safer than cigarettes, think again: Compared to cigarette smoking, a waterpipe — also called a hookah or shisha — delivers more deadly carbon monoxide and roughly the same amount of addictive nicotine, according to a new study. ... read more >>
If you thought that smoking tobacco through a waterpipe was safer than cigarettes, think again: Compared to cigarette smoking, a waterpipe — also called a hookah or shisha — delivers more deadly carbon monoxide and roughly the same amount of addictive nicotine, according to a new study. ... read more >>
Nicotine Levels Higher in Children Exposed to Secondhand Smoke in the Home
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
New research published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, supports the World Health Initiative’s efforts for a home smoking ban, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University. Specifically, hair nicotine concentrations were higher in children exposed to secondhand smoke at home, and the younger the children, the higher the concentration under the same level of secondhand smoke exposure at home. ... read more >>
New research published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, supports the World Health Initiative’s efforts for a home smoking ban, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University. Specifically, hair nicotine concentrations were higher in children exposed to secondhand smoke at home, and the younger the children, the higher the concentration under the same level of secondhand smoke exposure at home. ... read more >>
Nabi to partner Glaxo to create Nicotine Vaccine
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
It is not a big secret, that Big tobacco has been earning billions each year by keeping smokers loyal to their products, however smoking cessation products present a constantly growing threat for those profits.Therapies created by pharmaceutical giants to assist smokers in giving up have had a relative success, due to a number of restrictions, side effects and low efficiency. However, Pharma tycoons don’t give up, but on the contrary, have been trying hard to create a miraculous cure which will overcome the addiction. ... read more >>
It is not a big secret, that Big tobacco has been earning billions each year by keeping smokers loyal to their products, however smoking cessation products present a constantly growing threat for those profits.Therapies created by pharmaceutical giants to assist smokers in giving up have had a relative success, due to a number of restrictions, side effects and low efficiency. However, Pharma tycoons don’t give up, but on the contrary, have been trying hard to create a miraculous cure which will overcome the addiction. ... read more >>
A Transdermal Nicotine Patch Is Not Effective for Postoperative Pain Management in Smokers: A Pilot Dose-Ranging Study
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
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