Physicians who offer counseling on quitting cigarettes and alcohol during patient visits would get a 19% increase in ...

For patients diagnosed with cancer, continuing to smoke during treatment may shorten survival. Persistent smoking can ...

WASHINGTON — Of the roughly 15 million Americans who tried to quit smoking in 2022, 5 in 6 failed. It’s a jarring statistic — and an indictment of the treatment options for an addiction that kills 480 ...

While smoking rates in the United States have substantially declined over the past six decades, smoking remains high among people with low incomes, leading to health disparities. A smartphone app that ...

Smoking cessation is linked to a lower dementia risk in older adults, though postcessation weight gain can attenuate these cognitive benefits.

A study of 4.5 million adults found that former smokers who switched to e-cigarettes had a 56% higher lung cancer risk than those who quit entirely, highlighting the benefits of complete cessation.

LOS ANGELES — Treating nicotine addiction with glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) was associated with less weight gain compared with other smoking cessation treatments such as ...

Canada’s decades-long fight against tobacco and smoking now confronts a new adversary: nicotine pouches. Though authorized in ...

Smoking has many health risks ...

While smoking is declining in many countries around the world, it is growing in Israel, rising in the last few years from one ...

Introduction Physical exercise has been used to assist smoking cessation, but supervised programmes are bounded by limited ...

Light ex-smokers quickly reduce CVD risk to levels similar to never-smokers, while heavy ex-smokers take over 25 years to achieve comparable risk levels. The study used data from the Korean National ...