Dr. Michele Bloch This is Me

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 Web References

1. 1. What you don't know about women and lung cancer

   www.4women.org/editor/Apr01/Ap - [Cached]

   Published on: 6/19/2001   Last Visited: 1/25/2002

   "Cigarettes do depress weight," explains Michele Bloch, Ph.D., M.D. a researcher at the National Institutes of Health, "because nicotine increases the metabolism." Studies have shown that women who quit smoking gain five pounds or more. Tobacco companies have been capitalizing on women's anxiety since the late 1920s, when Lucky Strike advertisements advised female smokers to keep a slender figure-"Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet." Today, the message is disseminated more subtly but no less powerfully, with nearly every major cigarette marketed to women featuring words such as light or slim in its brand name. The result is that when a woman finally considers kicking the habit, she fears she'll pile on pounds-to a degree grossly out of proportion with reality. For those female smokers who specifically identify themselves as weight-control smokers, giving up cigarettes means "spinning out of control and gaining fifty pounds," Dr. Bloch says.
   
   There are other factors, unique to female smokers, that may hinder their attempts to stop. Research suggests that the nicotine in cigarettes has a somewhat different physical effect on women, easing their stress and anxiety levels much more profoundly than it does for men.

2. 2. What you don't know about women and lung cancer

   www.4woman.org/editor/Apr01/Ap - [Cached]

   Published on: 5/7/2001   Last Visited: 7/7/2002

   "Cigarettes do depress weight," explains Michele Bloch, Ph.D., M.D. a researcher at the National Institutes of Health, "because nicotine increases the metabolism." Studies have shown that women who quit smoking gain five pounds or more. Tobacco companies have been capitalizing on women's anxiety since the late 1920s, when Lucky Strike advertisements advised female smokers to keep a slender figure-"Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet." Today, the message is disseminated more subtly but no less powerfully, with nearly every major cigarette marketed to women featuring words such as light or slim in its brand name. The result is that when a woman finally considers kicking the habit, she fears she'll pile on pounds-to a degree grossly out of proportion with reality. For those female smokers who specifically identify themselves as weight-control smokers, giving up cigarettes means "spinning out of control and gaining fifty pounds," Dr. Bloch says.
   
   There are other factors, unique to female smokers, that may hinder their attempts to stop. Research suggests that the nicotine in cigarettes has a somewhat different physical effect on women, easing their stress and anxiety levels much more profoundly than it does for men.

3. 3. What you don't know about women and lung cancer

   www.4woman.net/editor/Apr01/Ap - [Cached]

   Published on: 4/1/2001   Last Visited: 1/27/2002

   "Cigarettes do depress weight," explains Michele Bloch, Ph.D., M.D. a researcher at the National Institutes of Health, "because nicotine increases the metabolism." Studies have shown that women who quit smoking gain five pounds or more. Tobacco companies have been capitalizing on women's anxiety since the late 1920s, when Lucky Strike advertisements advised female smokers to keep a slender figure-"Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet." Today, the message is disseminated more subtly but no less powerfully, with nearly every major cigarette marketed to women featuring words such as light or slim in its brand name. The result is that when a woman finally considers kicking the habit, she fears she'll pile on pounds-to a degree grossly out of proportion with reality. For those female smokers who specifically identify themselves as weight-control smokers, giving up cigarettes means "spinning out of control and gaining fifty pounds," Dr. Bloch says.
   
   There are other factors, unique to female smokers, that may hinder their attempts to stop. Research suggests that the nicotine in cigarettes has a somewhat different physical effect on women, easing their stress and anxiety levels much more profoundly than it does for men.