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The provision of smoking cessation counselling and therapy during routine HIV care increases the chances that patients will quit smoking and stay stopped, according to Swiss research published in HIV Medicine.

Physicians at the Zurich HIV clinic received training about smoking cessation counselling and the use of medication to help those wanting to quit.

Compared to other patients in the Swiss HIV Cohort, individuals who received their care in Zurich were more likely to stop smoking and also less likely to restart smoking after they had quit.

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A Nashua girl battling leukemia got some help Tuesday from law enforcement.

Stacey Lacroix, 11, has been fighting acute lymphoblastic leukemia since June.

It’s a rare and painful form of cancer.

“I pretty much had to stay inside of the hospital. I couldn’t even get outside to go to the garden at Children’s [Hospital Boston],” she said.

Stacey’s mother, Lilybeth, who is caring for her daughter alone, recently lost her job.

On Tuesday, the Lacroixs were presented with a $5,000 check from Cops for Kids with Cancer, a regional organization that helps families with money for things other than medical bills.

“I learned that the community is so wonderful. T Read more…