Efforts to discourage smoking have steadily reduced its prevalence from 27.8% of the global population in 1990 to 19.6% in 2019 1. However, the total number of people who smoke has actually increased ...

Share on Pinterest Semaglutide may help with smoking cessation in people with and without obesity, new research suggests. Mustafa Turan/Getty Images Semaglutide, the active ingredient in GLP-1 drugs ...

For the first time, the World Health Organization has released a set of guidelines to help the 750 million tobacco users across the globe who want to break the habit. The recommendations urge health ...

Sometimes it really does "take a village" to help you meet life's challenges, and quitting smoking can be one of the toughest challenges out there. That's why specially designed smoking-cessation ...

Over 60% of the 1.25 billion tobacco users worldwide want to quit smoking, but 70% lack access to effective cessation services due to healthcare system limitations, according to the World Health ...

The daunting challenge of quitting smoking just became a lot harder. On April 1, the CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health was eliminated in cuts ordered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Former smokers had little to no excess cardiovascular mortality 20 to 29 years after quitting. Sustained ...

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 ...

In Tennessee, policy, culture and economics continue to drive higher than normal tobacco use, which claims over 11,000 ...

Memory and verbal fluency declined at a significantly slower pace in people who quit smoking in mid‑to-late life compared to those who continued smoking, with cognitive benefits from quitting observed ...

Adults who smoke cigarettes and are addicted to alcohol or other drugs were more likely to achieve sustained remission of their substance use disorder symptoms if they also quit smoking, according to ...

An analysis of data from almost two dozen long-term studies finds that even low-intensity smokers have a substantially higher ...