Smoking significantly reduces life expectancy and quality, with men losing 17 minutes and women 22 minutes per cigarette.

We particularly owe it to our state's children to keep them safe from tobacco's ill effects.

AI chatbots can offer helpful quitting advice to smokers more often than not. But as per research, they still serve ...

Alex Fitzpatrick/Axios Georgia is spending 4% of what the feds suggest it should on anti-tobacco efforts, a new report says. Why it matters: Cigarette smoking remains the country's leading cause of ...

Alex Fitzpatrick/Axios Massachusetts is spending one-fifth of what the feds suggest it should on anti-tobacco efforts, a new report says. Why it matters: Cigarette smoking remains the country's ...

Alex Fitzpatrick/Axios Ohio has budgeted about $8 million toward tobacco control programs in fiscal year 2025. Why it matters: That's a tiny fraction of the $132 million that the Centers for Disease ...

Objectives Despite the aggressive marketing of electronic nicotine device systems (ENDS) as smoking cessation tools, the evidence of their effectiveness is mixed. We conducted a systematic review of ...

Objectives The number of quit attempts it takes a smoker to quit successfully is a commonly reported figure among smoking cessation programmes, but previous estimates have been based on lifetime ...

There are different methods of hypnosis, but therapists typically use a technique that psychiatrist Herbert Spiegel developed in the 1970s to help with smoking cessation. During this type of ...

Objective: A network meta-analysis based on randomized controlled trials was conducted to investigate the effects of pharmacological interventions on smoking cessation. Methods: English databases were ...