Hookah smoking is on the rise around the world. Present study investigated the heart resistance to harmful stress following long-term waterpipe tobacco smoking (WTS) and moderate-intensity exercise training intervention in male Wistar rats.
Waterpipe smoking (WP) exposure has a negative health impact including memory deficit which was attributed to elevation of oxidative stress. Vitamin E (VitE) or swimming exercise have protective effects that prevent memory impairment. In the current study, the modulation of WP-induced memory impairment by the combined effect of VitE and swimming exercise (SE) was investigated.
Our findings suggest that miR-338-5p and cigarette smoking may both play a role in the development or maintenance of neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury. While additional work is needed to confirm these findings, validated target analysis suggests a neuroprotective role of miR-338-5p in modulating neuroinflammation and neuronal apoptosis and that its downregulation may result in maladaptive neuroplastic mechanisms contributing to neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury.
Context: Insulin resistance is a determinant of diabetes. With the increasing popularity of electronic smoking, the number of dual smokers (smoking both cigarettes and electronic cigarettes [e-cigarettes]) is increasing
Among college students, vaping was significantly associated with psychotic experiences, even after accounting for simple measures of cigarette and marijuana use, and mental health problems, calling for more prospective studies to examine the association.
To compare the cord serum ferritin and fetal iron status in newborns with and without maternal occupational smokeless tobacco exposure and determine the influencing factors.
Cigarette smoking contributes to poor oral health and dental discoloration. Therefore, stopping smoking may translate into measurable amelioration of dental shade indices. We compared dental shade parameters by digital spectrophotometry among current, former, and never smokers and verified their repeatability at 7 and 30 days.
A recent study demonstrated that during a single sampling period, 0.1 mg of intravenous (IV) nicotine (vs. placebo) was found to be the threshold for subjective and physiological drug effects. The present study is a secondary analysis evaluating whether the threshold for subjective and physiological effects is similar when the subject has repeated opportunities to choose blinded doses of nicotine versus placebo. We also examined whether cigarette craving, withdrawal, and rate of nicotine metabolism affected nicotine reinforcement, defined by a greater number of nicotine choices than placebo.
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