Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If so many people want to stop, why is it so difficult? The main culprit is nicotine, which is a highly addictive substance that ...

The group Smokeless Vets hope to help 100,000 veterans stop smoking. Using nicotine products like vapes and pouches, they think, would help. By Joshua Skovlund Published Jul 25, 2024 6:56 PM EDT Omar ...

Graham Smith-Thompson is proof that you can beat an addiction to tobacco. Now aged 79, he smoked for 66 years until the end of 2025. Smith-Thompson used to smoke more than 20 roll-up cigarettes a day ...

A new paper in Nicotine and Tobacco Research, published by Oxford University Press, finds that people experiencing more ...

A new study has found that by offering stop smoking support as part of the national lung cancer screening programme, there is potential to save lives, and dedicated funding must be considered by ...

The CDC is not taking any more butts when it comes to smoking. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has launched the 2024 version of its federally funded national tobacco education ...

A proposed rule from the US Food and Drug Administration seeks to lower the amount of nicotine in cigarettes and other combustible tobacco products to minimally or nonaddictive levels to reduce ...

Ask A.J. is Slate’s advice column on addiction, recovery, and how to hate yourself less. Submit a question here. It’s anonymous! Dear A.J., I started smoking in high school and successfully quit in ...

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Awareness campaigns like November’s Lung Cancer Awareness Month are certainly a good way to encourage people to be proactive about protecting their lungs. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer ...

The best way to stop smoking is to stop smoking, says Scottish Doctor Lennox Johnston. The procedure, he insists, is neither as simple nor as simple-minded as it sounds. The craving for tobacco must ...