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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 ...

The Biden administration’s 11th-hour proposal to force tobacco manufacturers to slash nicotine levels — made just days before ...

This gentleman, Ibrahim Yucel, a Turkish man who was 42 years old at the time of the events, decided in 2013 to have his head ...

Background Smoking rates have declined markedly in Australia over time; however, lesbian, bisexual and queer (LBQ) women ...

According to a report, the drastic measure was his way of curbing the urge to smoke after several failed attempts to quit, ...

A man from Turkey, Ibrahim Yusel, adopted a unique method to quit his smoking addiction. After smoking for 26 years, Ibrahim ...