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Quitting smoking can be contagious :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Health News
Summary from United States, from articles in English
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New Yorkers start paying the highest cigarette taxes in the nation Tuesday with the latest $1.25 spike per pack that officials expect to bring in $265 million a year. (article 1)
Convenience stores across the state and the smokers who will be paying the price are angry about the change, but health officials hail the tax increase as a success. (article 1)
SMOKING There are several ways to snuff out that smoking habit - nicotine replacement therapy using gum, the patch, or sprays, or medications such as Zyban and Chantix. (article 4)
These strategies work great for some people and do nothing for others - but so far, the only way to tell which will help a particular person is by trial and error. (article 4)
Jed Rose and colleagues decided to look for predictive clues in the DNA of 550 smokers readying to quit. (article 4)
Several weeks later, the investigators found that smokers who successfully quit with nicotine replacement therapy had a cluster of 41 genes in common, while those who quit with Zyban had a different cluster of 28 genes in common. (article 4)
BOTTOM LINE: Success with certain smoking cessation techniques can be predicted based on the presence of specific clusters of genes. (article 4)
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Smoking, Smokers, quit, nicotine, cessation |
Source articles
- ABC News: $10-a-Pack Cigarettes Hit NYC Next Month (ABCNews, 06/03/2008, 356 words)
- Quitting smoking can be contagious :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Health News (suntimes.com, 06/04/2008, 178 words)
- Kicking some ash :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Health News (suntimes.com, 06/04/2008, 724 words)
- Genes may predict which cessation program will work best (boston.com, 06/02/2008, 483 words)
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