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Donna Fox, a nurse at Lexington Medical Center, highlighted the benefits of quitting smoking and vaping, along with free cessation classes available to residents.

Background Increasing intentions to quit e-cigarettes among youth and young adults can reduce usage rates by making quit attempts more likely. This study assessed the potential impacts of a national ...

Relapse is common when someone is trying to quit, regardless of whether they're giving up opioids or alcohol or cigarettes.

In the first of this week’s parliamentary coverage, we hear from Paul Kohler MP and Sorcha Eastwood MP about medicalised quit ...

Currently, there is no clear evidence to support the use of differential individual-level smoking cessation interventions for people from lower or higher SES groups, or that any one intervention would ...

VAPES are considered significantly less harmful than cigarettes. And they’re great tools for helping smokers desperate to ...

The Philippines has long struggled with trying to reverse the relatively high rate of smoking among Filipinos. The Department of Health has had several high-profile campaigns to address the alarming ...

Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-related deaths globally, with cigarette smoking as its primary driver.

The NHS has stated that while vaping is less harmful than traditional smoking, it's not without its risks. The long-term ...