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A Primer for Patients on How to Quit Smoking by Guest Expert Dr. Carolyn Dressler

February 22, 2008 - 8:11 pm

I asked Dr. Carolyn Dressler, a terrific expert on nicotine addiction and smoking cessation, to write a general post on how to approach quitting. She’s actually a lung surgeon who also obtained a Masters in Public Health and now works as Branch Chief for the Tobacco Cessation and Prevention Program for the Arkansas State Governent. […]

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Institute of Medicine Report Urges Major Policy Change on Tobacco

May 27, 2007 - 7:56 am

This week, the Institute of Medicine, a branch of the US National Academy of Sciences, released a 400-page comprehensive report (prepublication available here; 8 page summary brief available as pdf file here). It notes that the rates of adult smoking has dropped by more than 50% since 1965 and that the rates of high school students starting […]

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