May 20, 2013 Making the Decision to Quit Tobacco News & Features
Teenagers can get hooked on one cigarette, a doctor warns.
Regulators said Pfizer's antismoking drug Chantix appeared
increasingly likely to be linked to serious psychiatric
behavior, and called for stronger label warnings. After an
analysis of reports of suicidal thoughts and behavior
potentially linked to the medication, the Food and Drug
Administration said it was calling for Pfizer to strengthen the
label warnings on the drug. The advice is as sound as it is
familiar: avoid smoking, exercise, eat lots of fruits and
vegetables, drink alcohol if you want (but not too much). Now
researchers have figured out exactly how many years these habits
will add to your life. An 11-year study, published Jan. 8 in
PLoS Medicine, began with interviews of more than 25,000 men and
women ages 45 to 79 in the English county of Norfolk. The
researchers gathered information on health and illness, smoking,
alcohol consumption and physical activity both in manual w