Sentence examples for short-term cessation from inspiring English sources

They have increased knowledge of the hazards of smoking, increased short-term cessation and reduced smoking prevalence.

Ideology is not a silver bullet for solving our problems in Afghanistan, nor should the U.S. settle for the short-term cessation of fighting by agreeing to the radicals' demand for draconian enforcement of Sharia law.

Although some NRT products produced better short-term cessation rates than others these differences were not reflected in the logistic regression.

10, 74 The ACC/AHA/NHLBI clinical advisory on statins recommends that patients hospitalized for major surgery with high metabolic demands might benefit from short-term cessation of statins in order to prevent statin-induced myopathy in the perioperative period.

Unassisted attempts to quit smoking have a poor success rate, and although current medications (including nicotine replacement, nicotine receptor agonists, antidepressants, and counseling) increase short-term cessation, improved therapies to increase long-term abstinence are required.

In a randomized trial of short-term cessation of hormone therapy, MD significantly decreased in the EPT cessation group, but with an interindividual variation in MD decrease [ 17, 18].

Funding and pressure to meet Government targets which are focussed on short term cessation and paucity of information as to the most effective relapse prevention interventions were repeatedly identified as challenges to the provision of RPIs (see Table 5).

Commonly identified barriers to the introduction of RPIs were funding and government targets focussed on short term cessation, smokers' low uptake of offered RPIs and an uncertain evidence base for their effectiveness.

Even for health professionals who were interested in and willing to provide RPIs, the pressure to achieve short term cessation for smokers (i.e. 4 week quits) often reduced the amount of time and resources that could be devoted to RPIs.

Other barriers towards introducing RPIs, such as their weak evidence and the short term cessation-focussed targets against which UK stop smoking services are measured, would also need addressing and interventions which are acceptable to abstinent smokers would need to be developed.

16 A recent microarray study of the involution process in the short-term following cessation of milking revealed a strong upregulation of immune and antioxidant-related genes.