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Very Brief Counselling is a method of advising patients on smoking cessation. It has proven effective in helping patients quit smoking. Read more about Very Brief Counselling in this article.

Nicotine replacement therapy might help you stop for good! Read all about the different types of nicotine replacement therapies in this article.

Certain medications – including some antibiotics and heart medications – can worsen diabetes control and cause blood glucose levels to rise.

It is estimated that erectile dysfunction affects between 34% and 45% of adult men who have diabetes.

What’s the best meal planning approach to manage blood sugars? There are as many answers to that question as there are people living with diabetes.

When a healthcare practitioner recommends that a patient with diabetes should add insulin to their oral medications or entirely replace oral medications with insulin, the response is often one of dismay. Such patients often feel that the move to insulin means they have in some way failed in their diabetes self-management.

Smoking is bad for anyone, but it’s especially dangerous for people who have – or are at risk for – type 2 diabetes. In fact, smoking can contribute to type 2 diabetes: smokers are 30% to 40% more likely to develop type 2 diabetes than non-smokers.