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News Briefs - The Sudbury Star - Ontario, CA .
Whoever said quitting smoking always has to be so serious?
It's Canada's Time to Quit Comedy Tour will be making a stop at Little Montreal Bar on Elgin Street Friday, July 17.
Featuring local comedians Denis Grignon and Rick Currie, the show will attempt to raise awareness about the benefits and challenges of quitting smoking, while also entertaining the audience.
Ambitious goal set to reduce tobacco use in Okla. - Forbes.com.
State officials are asking Oklahoma residents, who have one of the highest smoking rates in the country, to join them in an ambitious goal to reduce tobacco use to below the national average by 2012.
Achieving that goal would result in 200,000 fewer adult and youth tobacco users in the state, officials said Tuesday.
Wearing the nicotine patch before quitting increases success, study says | Booster Shots | Los Angeles Times.
Smokers who wear a nicotine patch for two weeks before they quit smoking are twice as likely to kick the habit as those who puton the patch on the day they quit, finds a new study, published online in the journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research.
Smokers, and the physicians who advise them, have always been wary of suggesting the use of patch and cigarettes together for fear that the two-fisted approach would cause nicotine overdoses. And the labels of nicotine patches reflect that concern, warning would-be quitters not to use both at once.
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