As a clinician who treats veterans struggling with trauma, mental illness, and addiction, I’m careful about language. Words matter. They shape policy, treatment decisions, and public ...

People who smoke often desire to quit. Yet smoking can be a hard habit to break, even knowing the clear link between smoking and cancer. While there are smoking cessation programs that can help, many ...

Wednesday 1 October marks the start of Stoptober – an annual health campaign designed to help people quit smoking for good. Supported by the free NHS Quit Smoking app, people are challenged to go ...

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in 2022, the majority of the 28.8 million U.S. adults who smoked cigarettes wanted to quit; approximately half had tried to quit ...

Deciding to quit smoking is a big step. While nearly two-thirds of adults who have smoked have managed to quit, it's rarely easy. As your body begins detoxing, you might experience what some call ...

But six years later, clear differences appeared: those who quit smoking declined more slowly in both memory and verbal ability. On average, ex-smokers’ memory declined about 0.05 standard deviations ...

Smoking can cause lungs to look blackened, inflated, and inflamed, but some of the damage is reversible. Depending on the extent of the damage, it could take years for your lungs to regain a healthy, ...

Ozempic may be able to help people quit smoking and potentially reduce the need for additional anti-smoking aids, a new study claims. Researchers from Case Western Reserve School of Medicine examined ...

While some people have used bananas as a cheap and nutritious way to reduce cravings, there isn’t much research to back this up. There are many reasons to quit smoking and a number of ways to achieve ...