Ex-smokers can win a Holiday

September 7th, 2009 LONDON - LONDON, September 8 /PRNewswire/ -- - New NiQuitin(R) Pre-Quit(TM) Lozenges Launched To Help Smokers Address Their Internal Struggle By Easing Into Quitting New research results, which delve into the mind of smokers, are launched today, lifting the veil of nicotine addiction to understand the thoughts, anxieties and fears of the British smoker. The study, conducted on behalf of NiQuitin, shows that even smokers who are keen to kick the habit are torn between the benefits of giving up and the allure of cigarettes.

August 10th, 2009 LONDON - Ex-smokers across the UK still have time to enter stop smoking charity QUIT's competition to find the country's most inspirational quitters and win the holiday of a lifetime. QUIT(R), along with the European Network of Quitlines, is inviting smokers who have kicked the habit to enter the European Smoke Free Awards 2009, with a grand prize of EUR5,000 (GBP4,250) in holiday vouchers for the overall winner.

July 26th, 2009 UTRECHT, The Netherlands - - Independent Figures and Testimonials Available to Everyone, Free of Charge Zoover.com, the largest holiday testimonial website in Europe which features more than three quarters of a million holiday reviews, introduces a new online gadget. Accommodation owners or webmasters of holiday websites can add this gadget, which keeps track of the average figure of all lodging and destination testimonials, to their own website.

June 23rd, 2009 LONDON - Have you recently quit smoking and want to let everyone know about your achievement, or do you need an extra incentive to give up the cigarettes for good? Then why not enter the European Smoke Free Awards 2009? Held for the first time in 2008, the awards are a chance to win a share of 7,000 Euros in holiday vouchers, with the Quitter of the Year scooping 5,000 holiday Euros and the runner up winning 2,000 holiday Euros. A range of countries across Europe are participating in the awards, with each country putting forward one finalist who will win a trip to the awards ceremony in Barcelona in February 2010.

June 4th, 2009 LONDON - More than one in five of us ignore the flight safety talk when flying, according to a poll released today. Holiday Extras, the UK's market leading travel add-ons company, says that 21 per cent of customers who responded to their online poll admitted that they don't feel it necessary to watch the cabin crew's safety demonstration.

June 4th, 2009 LONDON - When it comes to sniffing out a bargain, we Brits can't get enough, according to new research from HolidayExtras.com. Whether it's the economic climate or just plain old thrift, 44 per cent of us now regularly use money-saving websites and articles to get a good deal, says the survey.

June 4th, 2009 LONDON - Holiday Extras, the UK market-leader in travel add-ons, is giving its 3.1 million customers the opportunity to recognise and reward the travel industry's shining stars in what promises to be one of the biggest, and fairest travel awards; the Holiday Extras Customers' Awards 2009. Only Holiday Extras customers travelling via a UK airport will be eligible to cast votes in ten different categories, ranging from best UK airport, best airport hotel and best airline, to the airline with the best cabin crew and those recommended as most family-friendly.

June 4th, 2009 LONDON - More than half of Holidayextras.com customers would book a round-the- world trip if they were as wealthy as the Queen. To mark the Queen's official birthday on June 13, Holiday Extras asked customers what kind of luxury holiday they would choose if they were as rich as our monarch.

March 10th, 2009 LONDON - With Photo To mark this year's No Smoking Day, three 'mini' entrepreneurs today went head-to-head to win a GBP2,000 investment from TV Dragon Duncan Bannatyne. In a re-enactment of the TV challenge, the school children faced their toughest challenge yet when they presented their big ideas on how they could encourage parents to give up smoking.

March 10th, 2009 LONDON - New research released to mark No Smoking Day (11 March) shows more than one in three (36%) of the nine million smokers in Great Britain are thinking about or planning to cut down or quit as a direct result of the economic downturn. The poll also shows that one in ten (9%) will be taking the first step and making a quit attempt on No Smoking Day.

May 6th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Previous studies have shown that smokers have less body fat as compared to non-smokers. Now, a new study by U.S.

August 20th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Cigarette smokers have fewer and flatter taste buds, says a new study on Greek soldiers. The research on the tongues of 62 soldiers, published in the open access journal BMC Ear, Nose and Throat Disorders, has demonstrated how cigarettes deaden the ability to taste.

February 15th, 2009 LOS ANGELES - Smokeless tobacco does not increase smokers' quit rates, according to a new study by US researchers. Previous researches showed that many smokers in Sweden try to quit smoking by using snus, a form of moist, smokeless tobacco that's placed under the lip.

February 17th, 2009 LONDON - A well-off professional who smokes has a much lower survival rate than a non-smoking low-paid worker of the same sex, according to the findings of a 28-year study. The British study, one of the first to examine the long-term impact of smoking on older men and women, shows that smoking itself is a greater source of health inequalities than social position.

January 5th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Just seeing someone smoke aborts the smoker's resolve to kick the habit, according to new research. Brain scans taken during normal smoking activity and 24 hours after quitting show there is a marked increase in a particular kind of brain activity when quitters see photographs of people smoking.

July 27th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Government has withdrawn the Statutory Rules and Orders (SRO) on designated smoking areas, imposing a complete ban on smoking at all public places to protect non-smokers from the hazards of passive smoking. After the withdrawal of the SRO, smokers would not allowed to use tobacco in any form at any public or work place.

May 9th, 2009 LONDON - A 30-year study on the health and lifestyle habits of 54,000 Norwegians has found that non-smokers had healthier hearts and also lived longer than smokers. The researchers concluded that smoking is 'strongly' linked to death and cardiovascular disease.

May 9th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The colour of your skin and nicotine dependence could be linked, according to latest research. Smokers with higher concentrations of melanin - the colouring pigment - in their skin and hair may be at an increased risk of nicotine dependence and related carcinogens than lighter skinned smokers.

July 24th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Exposure to coal dust can increase the severity of emphysema in smokers and non-smokers alike, according to a new study by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). The findings of the study highlight a health problem related to a growing industry, as coal production has nearly doubled worldwide in the past 25 years.

April 9th, 2009 NEW YORK - Blood tests show that more than half of non-smokers here have elevated levels of cotinine, a consequence of recent exposure to toxic second-hand smoke. Cotinine, a by-product of nicotine breakdown, signals exposure to tobacco smoke.