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STUDIO CITY, Calif., April 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- SeeChange Health Insurance, the leader in value-based benefit design solutions for small and midsized employers and the fastest-growing health plan in California, is partnering with the California Smokers' Helpline to offer a free smoking cessation program to its members. The Helpline, also known as 1-800-NO-BUTTS, offers free, evidence-based, telephone counseling in six languages to help smokers quit. With this partnership,...

Finding a Christian counselor online is now easier for adults courtesy of the DrMichele.org website. This counseling expert has opened counseling services up to the public and sessions can be booked online or by telephone to provide immediate assistance. Houston, Texas (PRWEB) February 24, 2013 Clinical counseling is offered in most major cities to help men and women find relief for different emotional or physical issues. Locating counselors who are trained in Christian beliefs can be...

Your couch versus your therapist's couchTreating clinical depression on the telephone is nearly as effective as face-to-face consultations, a new Brigham Young University study finds.The trial run included 30 people newly diagnosed with major depression. Instead of eight scheduled visits to the clinic, the participants covered the same material during a series of phone calls with the therapist. Calls varied in length, ranging from 21 to 52 minutes. The patients did not receive antidepressant...

Phone-based counseling is centerpiece of interventionFor the first time, researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have demonstrated that it is possible to successfully recruit and retain a large number of adolescent smokers from the general population into a smoking intervention study and, through personalized, proactive telephone counseling, significantly impact rates of six-month continuous quitting. These findings, by Arthur V. Peterson Jr., Ph.D., Kathleen A. Kealey and...

SEATTLE, Oct. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- For the first time, researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have demonstrated that it is possible to successfully recruit and retain a large number of adolescent smokers from the general population into a smoking intervention study and, through personalized, proactive telephone counseling, significantly impact rates of six-month continuous quitting. These findings, by Arthur V. Peterson Jr., Ph.D., Kathleen A. Kealey and colleagues, are...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Counseling smokers over the telephone helps them kick the habit, researchers said on Monday. The study, led by Lawrence An of the University of Minnesota, attempted to determine if "quit lines" offered benefits beyond routine nagging. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that one in every five deaths in the United States is smoking-related. In the study, a group of military veterans who had committed themselves to quit smoking within 30 days...