Smokers may be more likely to successfully quit their habit if simple adjustments were made to how an existing anti-smoking medication is prescribed, according to a new study by a University at ...

Purpose: To determine whether (1) tailored nicotine patch therapy that is based on smoking rate can be carried out in a multisite oncology investigative group practice setting, (2) long-term use of ...

The Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking Cessation, released in January 2020, proved that smoking cessation is beneficial at any age. It reduces risks of premature death and can add as much as a decade ...

Quitting cigarette smoking was associated with a 30% greater likelihood of recovery in individuals with substance use disorder (SUD) compared with continuing to smoke, a large cohort study showed.

Quitting feels hard because nicotine changes both the brain and the daily routine around it. The most common way to quit smoking successfully is to treat ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The high risk of smoking among young people with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is not reduced by treatment with the ...

A recent review pinpoints the top three strategies that can help a person quit smoking. Image credit: philpell/Getty Images. Cigarette smoking is responsible for over 480,000 deaths annually in the ...

On No Smoking Day, we drive our focus to science-backed methods that can help one leave smoking. Smoking is one of the leading causes of preventable deaths worldwide. It also contributed to severe ...

In the U.S., 68.8% of current adult smokers want to quit for good, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Since 2002, the number of former smokers exceeds the number of ...