Smoking cessation is a pivotal journey, a transformative odyssey that reshapes one’s health and fortifies the spirit. It’s a quest fraught with challenges, yet its culmination bears the promise of ...

New research from Johns Hopkins Medicine adds to existing evidence that smoking fewer cigarettes does not eliminate ...

Nicotine is an addictive substance in tobacco and some e-cigarettes and vapes. Getting support, using nicotine replacement products, and managing withdrawal can help with quitting. Quitting nicotine ...

BOSTON - A new analysis has identified the best ways for people to quit smoking. Research looking at more than 300 prior studies on tobacco cessation found that nicotine replacement therapy, ...

Years ago, Dr. Mark Eisenberg, a cardiologist at McGill University in Canada, recommended that one of his patients—a smoker who’d tried everything to quit but still couldn’t—try vaping instead. It ...

Smoking causes significant health effects in teens, including lung damage, reduced physical fitness, and the potential to develop severe nicotine addiction. Keeping an open dialogue with teens can ...

A new major study from Queen Mary University of London has found that smokers who use both cigarettes and e-cigarettes at the ...

You wouldn’t think it would be easy to get nearly 4.5 million Americans—the equivalent of the entire state of Louisiana or Kentucky—to give up smoking. But it can be done in a single, straightforward ...

Some people have reported that hypnosis helped them quit smoking. However, more research is necessary to determine how effective it may be. Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the ...

The harms of smoking cigarettes are pretty clear. Smoking causes cancer as well as heart and lung diseases, and it’s the leading cause of preventable death in the United States. When it comes to ...

If cigarettes contained very little of the chemical that keeps people smoking, it could help smokers move away from these deadly products. That’s the rationale behind a new rule proposed on January 15 ...

Quitting smoking often leads to weight gain due to a combination of decreased metabolism and increased eating. The metabolic boost from nicotine accounts for 31% of weight gain, while increased eating ...