An automated SMS program embedded into TB care helped 40% of patients quit smoking; experts explore if a program might help cessation among smokers with other comorbidities.

Psychiatric patients who took part in a smoking-cessation program while they were in the hospital for treatment of mental illness were more likely to quit smoking and less likely to be hospitalized ...

Smoking rates in the United States are at historic lows and fewer people are dying from tobacco-related lung cancer — in part because the federal government has pumped millions of dollars into ...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has gutted key programs linked to successful smoking cessation. The CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health was eliminated by the HHS, which could limit ...

ROCHESTER, NY (WROC) – Dave Hull was smoking a pack a day for over 40 years, and at one point, he decided that it was time to kick the habit. That’s why he joined a free program through URMC’S Center ...

The overall U.S. smoking rate is half what it was in the 1960s. But this isn't true among low-income Americans: They're still smoking as much as everyone was a generation ago. Massachusetts health ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — An online program to help Hoosiers stop smoking, usually costing nearly $100, will be free for the rest of the month. American Lung Association’s program, which typically costs ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — As November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month, the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) is encouraging Richmond-area residents who want to quit smoking to participate in the Free ...