Smartphone apps help smokers quit at 3 times the rate of no support, but apps using cognitive behavioral therapies are most ...

Yashraj Garg explores the way nicotine changes your brain, and why sticking to this particular new year's resolution involves ...

Want to quit smoking? Find out how quit-smoking apps with behavioural tools and interactive features can support your journey ...

Smartphone apps—particularly those based on psychological theories—are three times as effective as no/minimal support at ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Tobacco use remains the leading cause of preventable death and disease here in New York. So, perhaps some of you are starting off 2024 with a resolution to try and quit. Jamie ...

“I remember thinking this is hokey and it’s not going to work,” Morgan recalled. — -- Yale graduate student Michelle Morgan started smoking at age 12. When the 35-year-old wanted to quit she ...

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 ...

A new study published in BMJ Evidence Based Medicine suggests that phone apps offer the best route out of smoking but VPZ ...

While smoking rates in the United States have substantially declined over the past six decades, smoking remains high among people with low incomes, leading to health disparities. A smartphone app that ...

If cigarettes contained very little of the chemical that keeps people smoking, it could help smokers move away from these deadly products. That’s the rationale behind a new rule proposed on January 15 ...

Health insurers will pay for smokers to make three attempts to quit under new guidelines that came into force on. Figures ...

The study, published in The Lancet Healthy Longevity, looked at data from 9,436 people aged 40 or over (with an average age of 58) in 12 countries, comparing cognitive test results among people who ...