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

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 ...

IQWiG has now published its final benefit assessment of bupropion, cytisine, nicotine and varenicline for smoking cessation, also in combination with each other, compared with no drug therapy.

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.

A new study shows that a smoking cessation treatment program delivered in community oncology care settings can nearly double ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Reducing or quitting smoking significantly lowered the risk of lung cancer in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who smoked less than 30 pack-years in a recent study. Smoking ...

Should you quit smoking before alcohol, or the other way around? A nephrologist explains why there is no one-size-fits-all ...

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