Smoking isn’t cool anymore! According to Gallup polling, in the mid-1950s, approximately 45% of the adult population in the U.S. smoked. Today, adult smoking rates in the U.S. have plummeted ...

Lots of people who vape want to quit, but there's very little guidance on how best to do so. In the U.S., recent reports estimate that 5.9% of youth and 4.5% of adults currently vape. This proportion ...

If you still smoke cigarettes, you’re in increasingly small company. The number of smokers a few decades ago was about 30 percent of the US population. Compare that to only about 14 percent of adults ...

Cigarette smoking is responsible for over 480,000 deaths annually in the United States each year. It also often negatively impacts overall health for smokers and those exposed to secondhand and ...

The programs are designed to meet people where they are, whether they are considering quitting or ready to stop using tobacco ...

A new study, co-led by a University of Massachusetts Amherst researcher, set out to identify the most effective strategies for helping people quit vaping. The findings, published today in the Cochrane ...

If you've ever turned on the TV to see a harrowing story of a person with a hole in their throat warning against the dangers of smoking, you witnessed an ad by the Tips From Former Smokers campaign.

What are the main strategies for quitting vaping? Our report focuses on strategies for helping people stay vape-free for six months or longer. We found that text message-based interventions may help ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Lots of people who vape want to quit, but there’s very little guidance on how best to do so. The idea was proposed the same day he refused to rule out using military force to take..

Jamie Hartmann-Boyce receives funding for research from Cancer Research UK (which supported the work reported here), the US National Institutes of Health via the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the ...