A UCLA School of Nursing professor will launch a program to help nurses quit smoking. The first initiative of its kind in the United States, "Tobacco Free-Nurses" will be funded by a $1.8 million ...

LOUISVILLE, KY. — Samantha McCandless began smoking when she was 9 after her teenage baby sitter hooked her on cigarettes. More than a quarter-century later, despite being a nursing supervisor at a ...

China has a big smoking problem. Three-hundred-fifty million Chinese people smoke and 1 million deaths a year in China are attributed to smoking-related illnesses. By 2020, that's expected to double ...

Michaela Nuttal, MS, explores the complex culture of smoking among nurses, highlighting challenges and motivations for quitting within health care settings. Nuttal is a cardiovascular nurse specialist ...

Linda Sarna didn’t last long as a smoker—less than a year during nursing school. But her work to stop tobacco use as a nurse, researcher, and advocate has spanned her career. Ms. Sarna, a professor in ...

Self-reported quit rates among hospital patients more than doubled when nurses and other staff were trained to coach patients on how to stop smoking and to make sure they got the help they needed to ...

LANSING, Mich (WLNS) — According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, smoking leads to disease and disability and harms nearly every organ of the body. Cigarette smoke remains the ...

(Reuters) - Counseling sessions with a school nurse may help some high school students, especially boys, quit smoking -- but only for a little while, according to a U.S. study. Researchers, who ...

Tobacco Control, Vol. 6, Supplement 2: National Cancer Institute Studies in Community Tobacco Control: Commit and Assist (Winter, 1997), pp. S49-S56 (8 pages) Objective: To compare tobacco control ...