2023 Lung Cancer Awareness Blog
2023 Lung Cancer Awareness Blog As the third most common type of cancer in the United States, lung cancer causes more deaths than any other cancer in the country (American …
What Reduced Nicotine Cigarettes & Menthol Cigarettes Ban Could Mean
Title: What Reduced-nicotine Cigarettes, Menthol Cigarettes Ban Could Mean for Your People Publication: April 29, 2021 Author: Stacey Younger Gagosian Description: On April 29th, the FDA reported to the courts …
Older Adults, Behavioral Health and Smoking: Why Quitting Smoking is Still a Conversation Worth Having
It was the 1960’s — walking into your local pharmacy usually meant getting an ice-cold soda pop or a pack of cigarettes, not your prescription. In the same decade, with …
Mental Health Impacts of a Cancer Diagnosis
Cancer causes excess mortality in those with mental illness in the United States[i][ii], and while incidence rates have been found to be comparable between people with and without a history …
Plant a SEED: Four Approaches to Grow Your Tobacco Cessation Services
Is your organization looking to expand its tobacco cessation services but funding challenges are getting in the way? Financing these services might be easier than you think! Building off existing …
Building Healthier Housing: How Behavioral Health Providers Can Support Smoke-Free Public Housing
By Marcella A. Maguire, Ph.D., Dawn A. Randolph, MPA, and Lea Simms By July 30, 2018 approximately 1.2 million public housing units will have gone smoke-free, creating safer and healthier …
Will removal of black box warning get psychiatrists to move on tobacco?
Treating tobacco use disorder should be a major priority for addiction psychiatrists for many reasons. For example, half of all deaths for patients with mental illness are attributable to tobacco[1] …
You Can’t Treat Opioid Addiction While Ignoring Nicotine Addiction
America is in the throes of an opioid crisis—and yet, it could be argued that tobacco is still a greater killer. About 64,000 people died of opioid overdose fatalities last year, while …