New Quit Smoking Clubs Are Helping Female Smokers In Bradford

 A line of new stop smoking clubs for women have started offering their services in Bradford. The clubs are known as `Time 4 Me’ clubs and they remains operational for a period of 12 weeks.

 

The clubs are offering services for free of cost and the club sessions will be organized in five children’s centres throughout Airedale and Bradford. These centres include the Rainbow Centre, at Braithwaite, Keighley, Parklands at Thorp Edge, the Gateway Centre at Ravenscliffe, Wyke and Bierley.

 

Female smokers can enrol in the clubs for learning relaxation procedures, having fun, getting to know new people and for quit smoking together. These clubs are especially targeted at women who are pregnant, planning to achieve pregnancy or those who have pre-school children.

 

The new quit smoking clubs are substituting the Primary Care Trusts in Bradford. 

 

Source: thetelegraphandargus.co.uk, Date: 9^th February 2013

 

Female Smokers Are Now More Likely To Die Than They Were In The 1960s

A new US-based study has discovered that women who smoke are now more prone to die than they had that risk in the 1060s. The survey included more than 2.2 million men and women who were aged 55 yrs and above. The study also incorporated data from 1959 till 2010.  

The study was undertaken by Dr Michael Thun from The American Cancer Society and his group of researchers. According to the researchers, the results have shown that if women continue to smoke like men, they will eventually die like men.  

 

During the 1960s, American women who took to smoking were thrice more prone to die due to lung cancer than those women who never started smoking. However, in between 2000-2010, this risk was enhanced by 26 times. The enhanced risk of female deaths due to smoking exceeds the advancements seen in the medicine industry that have lessened death rates during the last 50 years.  

 

In comparison to the 1960s, now women start smoking cigarettes very early in life and continue the habit for a longer period. This may be largely responsible for the impact of smoking addiction.  

 

Source: cancerresearchuk.org, Date: 24^th January 2013