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Lung cancer screening promises to find cancer early and treat it before it progresses. But a year on, issues have emerged.
Introducing oral nicotine pouches risks exposing more young people to nicotine addiction and compounding the problems caused by vaping.
Early versions of graphic warnings on smoked tobacco products aimed to arouse fear. But addressing feelings of regret and shame may be more motivating to quit.
Why almost no one is using the stop-smoking drug that could save thousands of lives.
Using vapes for more than two years and with nicotine concentrations above 3% is linked to higher dependence, making it more difficult to stop.
For NZ to achieve its goal to bring smoking under 5% would require more than 80,000 people to quit this year. To be equitable, 60,000 would need to be Māori.
New Zealand seems unlikely to reach its stated goal of cutting smoking prevalence to 5% or less across all population groups.
Retailers have a three-month grace period to sell any old stock already in their stores. Here’s what’s behind these changes – and what needs to happen next.
Hypnosis is safe and can work as both a stand-alone or a complementary treatment with other therapies.
Using varenicline can double, or even triple, a person’s chances of quitting smoking.
The change is intended to balance access to vapes for adults using them to quit smoking with the need to protect young people from taking up vaping.
It’s a conundrum: While vaping can help some adults stop cigarette smoking, it also appeals to young people who may take up the habit.
Allowing pharmacists to dispense nicotine vapes without a prescription would ensure people who are using them to quit smoking could access them legally, while preventing inappropriate sales to youth.
Vapes will be harder to access from today, but the restrictions are staged, with some due to roll out later in the year. Here’s what’s changing.
Teens who quit vaping or drastically cut back are likely to experience withdrawal symptoms. Here’s how to support young adults through withdrawal and quitting.
In low-income countries, tobacco use is often associated with lower income and less education. These users can’t afford to pay for counselling and medication.
If we are to reduce the numbers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people smoking we need to consider a whole suite or approaches.
Many people who vape saying they are trying to quit or to cut down on cigarettes.
The proposed standard would lower the nicotine content in cigarettes and cigars by 95% – a public health proposal that could prevent millions from becoming smokers in the first place.
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Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity, University of New South Wales, UNSW
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Professor in Public Health, University of Otago
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Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
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Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
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Director, NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame and ARC Future Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Senior Research Fellow in Public Health, University of Otago
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Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Vermont
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Emeritus Professor, National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Mental Health, University of East Anglia
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