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Football’s Toll on Student Athletes

Football’s Toll on Student Athletes News & Analysis News From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Help Patients Have Smoke-Free Life Among smokers who tried to quit, a recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly More clinicians now than in 2000 are about 7% used counseling, 29% took Report study. advising smokers to quit and more smok- medication, and 5% used both. Telephone The data from the National Center for ers are trying to kick the habit. Even so, a quit lines were the most-used form of Catastrophic Sport Injury Research at the recent CDC analysis showed that success- counseling while nicotine patches or nico- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ful quit rates are low and too few who tine gum topped the list of medication showed that on-field brain and spinal inju- want to stop use evidence-based cessa- options. Regardless of their cessation ries claimed 28 players’ lives from 2005 to tion methods to do so. strategy, about 7% of smokers who tried 2014. Four played college football and 24 to quit in 2015 succeeded, compared with were high school players. All of the college about 6% in 2000. The federal govern- deaths and 14 of the high school fatalities oc- ment’s http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png JAMA American Medical Association

Football’s Toll on Student Athletes

JAMA , Volume 317 (6) – Feb 14, 2017
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Football’s Toll on Student Athletes

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News & Analysis News From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Help Patients Have Smoke-Free Life Among smokers who tried to quit, a recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly More clinicians now than in 2000 are about 7% used counseling, 29% took Report study. advising smokers to quit and more smok- medication, and 5% used both. Telephone The data from the National Center for ers are trying to kick the habit. Even so, a quit lines were the most-used form of Catastrophic Sport Injury...
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American Medical Association
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0098-7484
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10.1001/jama.2017.0100
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Abstract

News & Analysis News From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Help Patients Have Smoke-Free Life Among smokers who tried to quit, a recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly More clinicians now than in 2000 are about 7% used counseling, 29% took Report study. advising smokers to quit and more smok- medication, and 5% used both. Telephone The data from the National Center for ers are trying to kick the habit. Even so, a quit lines were the most-used form of Catastrophic Sport Injury Research at the recent CDC analysis showed that success- counseling while nicotine patches or nico- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ful quit rates are low and too few who tine gum topped the list of medication showed that on-field brain and spinal inju- want to stop use evidence-based cessa- options. Regardless of their cessation ries claimed 28 players’ lives from 2005 to tion methods to do so. strategy, about 7% of smokers who tried 2014. Four played college football and 24 to quit in 2015 succeeded, compared with were high school players. All of the college about 6% in 2000. The federal govern- deaths and 14 of the high school fatalities oc- ment’s

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Published: Feb 14, 2017

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