Celebrating YOU: This week’s spotlights [January 15, 2025]
Updated: 2025-01-15 18:27:27
Happy Spotlight Day! I’m excited to share with you this week’s news and most inspiring stories and tips from the CBQ community! Let’s dive into this week’s spotlights! Inspiring Success – Vaping CBQ Program member Amber McKinney from Texas, US, celebrated 2 years nicotine-free! Amber was addicted to nicotine for 20 years. She never really […]
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: skip to main skip to sidebar Tobacco Truth Tobacco Control has morphed into a crusade intent on demonizing both tobacco users and the industry supplying them . This blog examines and comments on scientific issues surrounding tobacco policies and . fallacies Thursday , January 9, 2025 Federal Surveys Demonstrate E-Cigarettes Have Been Successful Quit-Smoking Aids For a Decade New research based on U.S . government survey data shows , The most popular methods used to stop smoking were nicotine products 53.9 1.5 million adults especially e-cigarettes in combination with other methods 40.8 1.2 million and e-cigarettes alone 26.0 0.7 million confidence intervals removed by me Additionally , Prescription drug products 8.1 0.2 million and non-nicotine , non-prescription drug methods 6.3 0.2
Happy Spotlight Day! I’m excited to share with you this week’s news and most inspiring stories and tips from the CBQ community! It’s always hard to pick which of all the amazing stories to share with you every week (I wish I could share them all!), so I’m hand-picking the inspiring stories that speak to […]
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: skip to main skip to sidebar Tobacco Truth Tobacco Control has morphed into a crusade intent on demonizing both tobacco users and the industry supplying them . This blog examines and comments on scientific issues surrounding tobacco policies and . fallacies Saturday , January 4, 2025 5 Vaping Facts” You Don’t Want to Know Dr . Michael Blaha , Director of Clinical Research at the Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease , has published an article titled , 5 Vaping Facts You Need to . Know The piece contains a number of glaring . falsehoods I should note my profound disappointment with this article , as Dr . Blaha recently joined me and Sally Satel as faculty members of the since- cancelled Medscape medical education course on tobacco harm reduction THR Despite Dr
Happy New Year! On behalf of the entire CBQ Method team, we wish you to thrive in 2025! May this new year be filled with possibility, release you from old burdens and enrich your life in every way. To celebrate this new beginning, I can’t wait to share with you this week’s news and most […]
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: skip to main skip to sidebar Tobacco Truth Tobacco Control has morphed into a crusade intent on demonizing both tobacco users and the industry supplying them . This blog examines and comments on scientific issues surrounding tobacco policies and . fallacies Sunday , December 29, 2024 Economists Document the Harms of Vapor Bans Throughout my tobacco research career I have found conventional public health professionals inflexibly intolerant of tobacco harm . reduction So I have worked with talented economists who are doctrinal . agnostics That is , they are driven by data and evidence . And the evidence increasingly shows the damage of vapor . bans In this guest post , Clive Bates highlights the findings of recent studies by . economists Abigail Friedman and colleagues have published a
Happy “Spotlight Day” and Merry Christmas! In this wonderful holiday spirit, I’m thrilled to share this week’s most inspiring success stories and tips from the CBQ community with you! Inspiring Milestone This week, CBQ Program member Diane Boisvert from New York, US, celebrated 3 years smoke-free… after being a smoker for 53 years. She never […]
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Happy “Spotlight Day” and Happy Holidays! Christmas and 2025 are just around the corner! Today, I’m excited to share with you this week’s most inspiring success stories and tips from the CBQ community! Inspiring Success CBQ Program member Kay from Massachusetts, US, celebrated a huge milestone this week! For decades, Kay made “Quit Smoking” her […]
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: skip to main skip to sidebar Tobacco Truth Tobacco Control has morphed into a crusade intent on demonizing both tobacco users and the industry supplying them . This blog examines and comments on scientific issues surrounding tobacco policies and . fallacies Monday , December 16, 2024 Tobacco Prohibitionists Kill Safer Cigarette Substitutes and Smokers Dr . Michael Siegel has published a blog entry criticizing a new article in American Journal of Medicine claim[ing that youths who use e-cigarettes are 5 times more likely to become cigarette smokers . 8221 The commentary was authored by tobacco and nicotine opponents Pamela Ling and Edward . Goetzl Dr . Siegel correctly notes , the article in question fails to provide any citation or source for its preposterous claim Apparently , we are
: : skip to main skip to sidebar Tobacco Truth Tobacco Control has morphed into a crusade intent on demonizing both tobacco users and the industry supplying them . This blog examines and comments on scientific issues surrounding tobacco policies and . fallacies Thursday , December 12, 2024 Up in Smoke : The American Heart Association on Smokeless Tobacco The American Heart Association published a policy statement in its journal Circulation , titled Impact of Smokeless Oral Nicotine Products on Cardiovascular Disease . 8221 here Below , I cite with permission excerpts from a review by Clive Bates , along with my comments The smokeless tobacco ST policy statement from the American Heart Association is too long to review in depth , but my main take outs : are 1. It’s a modest improvement on
Happy “Spotlight Day”! I’m excited to share with you this week’s most inspiring success stories and tips from the CBQ community! Let’s dive in. Inspiring Success CBQ Program member Carolyn Fares from California, US, celebrated 2 years smoke-free and celebrated her 60th birthday! Carolyn used to consider herself a “professional quitter” (after trying everything from […]
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Happy “Spotlight Day”! December is finally here, and I’m excited to share with you this week’s most inspiring success stories and tips from the CBQ community! Inspiring Milestone This week, CBQ Program member Kay Cooney from Massachusetts, US, celebrated 5 years smoke-free! For the longest time, Kay used to put “quit smoking” in her New […]
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