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 ...

Folks struggling to quit smoking might need a bump up on the dose of medication they're using to help them stop, according to new clinical trial results. Patients are more likely to successfully quit ...

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.

Patients with Medicare were 5.08 times more likely than patients with private insurance, and 2.81 times more likely than patients with Medicaid, to face a financial barrier to obtaining varenicline ...

Weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy that contain the active ingredient semaglutide may also help people quit smoking, a new study says. The research, published in the journal Annals of Internal ...

Smoking is the leading cause of preventable and premature death globally. In the digital age there are now more than 500 English language smoking cessation apps on the market, and with them, new ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - A recent report from the Center of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows five different ways to quit smoking with medication assistance. These ways can help set up a person ...

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 ...

Prenatal use of smoking cessation pharmacotherapies was not linked to increased risks of major congenital malformations (MCMs) compared with smoking during the first trimester. Nicotine replacement ...