The electronic cigarette, or vape, has emerged over the last ten years as an alternative way of helping people give up smoking. Tobacco-free, they produce vapor and deliver only minute levels of toxic substances and carcinogens. Several studies confirm the effectiveness of nicotine vaping products in helping people to stop smoking.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTHE EXAMPLE OF COPD . Women are more susceptible to the harmful effects of smoking than men, even with moderate exposure, and this vulnerability begins in childhood. The prevalence of smoking has even increased, in certain age groups of women, in France between 2019 and 2021.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSmoking rates in Europe are falling steadily among teenagers. The main reasons why young people start smoking are highlighted. Preventing young people from starting to smoke is based on a combination of three approaches: firstly, interventions in schools, incorporating educational programs from an early age; secondly, comprehensive tobacco control measures, such as bans on sales to minors and higher taxes on tobacco products; -thirdly, targeted communication campaigns.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSMOKING AND TUBERCULOSIS. Tuberculosis and smoking are responsible for high mortality worldwide. Tuberculosis causes 9 million incident cases and 1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn the context of smoking cessation, the shared educational assessment (BEP) enables us to assess the smoker's needs, define specific objectives and set up appropriate educational workshops. This multidisciplinary approach helps smokers to maintain their smoking cessation. The BEP is the first step in the educational process, exploring the various classic dimensions of therapeutic patient education (TPE) and then defining an action plan based on the priorities identified.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTuberculosis and smoking are responsible for significant mortality worldwide. Smoking is spreading in emerging countries, and its prevalence is high in developed countries among socially disadvantaged populations; it could be the source of a resurgence of tuberculosis in future years. The aim of this review is to clarify the consequences of the association between smoking and tuberculosis, and the benefits of smoking cessation for smokers with tuberculosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn 2020, lung cancer was the cause of 18 % of all cancer deaths; smoking accounting for around 90 % of all lung cancers. Despite advances in lung cancer treatment, tobacco control measures are the most effective in curbing the lung cancer epidemic. Nevertheless, smoking cessation at all stages of the cancer process is associated with benefits in terms of cure, improved life expectancy and quality of life for patients, reduced medical or surgical complications, and reduced risk of recurrence or occurrence of a second primary cancer.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF"Shisha smoking: infatuation and harmfulness. The use of shisha (hookah, water pipe, narghile) consists in the inhalation of tobacco smoke, after passing through water is spreading among young people. This practice induces dependency and short and long-term health risks like those of smoking to health.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFReducing tobacco consumption does not reduce the risk of mortality and morbidity associated with pathologies caused by smoking. It should therefore only be a transitional step towards a complete stop. Caregivers will encourage the use of smoking cessation medication that avoid the phenomenon of compensation and promote complete cessation of smoking.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Exposure to a traumatic event may not only lead to a large variety of mental disorders, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) but also respiratory symptoms and/or respiratory diseases, as asthma.
Objectives: Systematic literature review of data on the impact of post-traumatic stress disorder on asthma.
Documentary Sources: Medline, on the period 1980-2018 with the following keywords: "PTSD" or "post-traumatic stress disorder" or "post-traumatic stress disorder" and "asthma", limits "title/abstract"; the selected languages were English or French.
Copd: think about occupational exposures! Unfortunately, the occupational exposures of COPD are still poorly taught and poorly researched, although they account for 15 to 20% of all COPD. The clinician must know them well and therefore systematically seek them for any newly diagnosed case. A thorough and rigorous professional interview allows to trace the entire professional career, even when the patient smokes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Heroin use can be responsible for many respiratory complications including asthma.
Objectives: Systematic literature review of data on asthma in heroin users.
Documentary Sources: Medline, on the period 1980-2017 with the following keywords: keywords: "asthma" or "bronchospasm" and "heroin" or "opiate" or "opiates", limits "title/abstract"; the selected languages were English or French.
Introduction: In France, cocaine is the second most commonly used illicit drug after cannabis. It can be responsible for many respiratory disorders among which pneumomediastinum.
Objectives: Systematic literature review of data on pneumediastinum in cocaine users.
Background: Farmers are exposed to multiple air contaminants that may interact with tobacco smoking in the development of respiratory diseases. Farmers are currently considered to smoke less than non-farmers, but precise data in different categories of age and farming activities are lacking.
Methods: Smoking habits were studied in a cross-sectional study involving 4105 farmers and 996 non-farming controls aged 40-74 years in 9 French departments between October 2012 and May 2013.
Context: Smoking whose prevalence is higher in patients with Crohn's disease (CD) worsens its evolution. Ulcerative colitis mostly affect non- or ex-smokers; smoking may improve the course of the disease.
Objectives: Systematic literature review of data on the relationship between smoking, smoking cessation and Crohn'disease.
The use of snus (smokeless tobacco) can be detrimental to health. Containing carcinogenic nitrosamines (Swedish snus do not contain nitrosamine). Snus delivers rapidly high doses of nicotine which can lead to dependence.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Despite increasing governmental anti-smoking measures, smoking prevalence remains at a high level in France.
Methods: The objectives of this panel study were (1) to estimate smoking prevalence in France, (2) to identify smokers' profiles according to their perceptions, attitudes and behaviour in relation to smoking cessation, (3) to determine predictive factors of quit attempts, and (4) to assess tobacco-related behaviours and their evolutions according to the changes in the smokers' environments. A representative sample of French population was defined using the quota method.
Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol
March 2006
Objective: To describe the management of tobacco withdrawal in pregnant women.
Study Design: The questionnaire-based, descriptive survey included 979 post-partum women. The variables analysed included the characteristics of the mother and neonate at delivery, her smoking habits, her level of exposure to passive smoking, and the barriers to giving up smoking.
Objective: To compare the characteristics of a group of pregnant women who smoked until delivery with women who gave up smoking during pregnancy.
Study Design: Questionnaire-based, descriptive study of 979 pregnant women in four regions of France. The variables analysed included the characteristics of the mother and neonate at delivery, the smoking habits of the mother before and during pregnancy, the perception of risk linked to smoking, and the reasons for giving up smoking.