New Cigarette Tests May Customize Quitting

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August 26, 2010 - Testing the chemicals in cigarette smoke has the potential for more accurately estimating smokers’ mouth level exposure and may have applications for developing custom-tailored quitting approaches for the more than 43 million people in the United States who still smoke, and hundreds of millions elsewhere, scientists announced yesterday. In a report at the 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS), they described development of a way to measure mainstream smoke deliveries of select chemicals that an individual smoker consumes on a per cigarette basis. It provides a much more accurate estimate of exposure than using automated cigarette smoking machines to estimate mainstream smoke deliveries, which traditionally have been used.

Potential future applications include examining a smoker’s daily cigarette-to-cigarette consumption pattern and developing an optimized smoking cessation program based on an individual’s pattern. According to Dr. Clifford Watson, a chemist at the Centers for Disease Control, it may be possible to develop individualized plans for quitting that are tailored to each individual’s smoking pattern to improve cessation rates. “Cessation rates for smoking are generally poor so that any improvement may substantially increase quit rates.”

For More Information:
http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_ARTICLEMAIN&node_id=222&content_id=CNBP_025403&use_sec=true&sec_url_var=region1&__uuid=70a9ee54-8b54-4e94-8160-dde39bdee536

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