June 28, 2022

Smokers have better quit rates with hospital-based interventions than quitline help, but study indicates need for longer follow-up

A health care system model that offered tobacco cessation treatment to smokers being discharged from a hospital produced a higher rate of tobacco abstinence during the three-month program than referral to a state-based telephone quitline, but the advantage disappeared at six months when both treatments produced comparable quit rates, researchers have found.

By Tom Wilemon

March 23, 2012

Smoking stokes cells’ cancer capacity

Cellular pathways altered by chronic exposure to cigarette smoke may reveal new biomarkers to assess smoking-induced lung cancer risk.

By Vanderbilt Health News