Health

Study finds differing treatment options for women smokers

A new study led by Assistant Medical Professor Philip Smith of The City College of New York's Sophie Davis Biomedical Education/CUNY School of Medicine, and conducted in collaboration with researchers at Yale University and ...

Health

Novel nicotine inhaler doubles smoking quit rates

A study by researchers at the University of Otago, Wellington shows that smokers who used a nicotine inhaler were twice as likely to quit smoking as smokers using a placebo inhaler.

Medical research

Nicotine vaccine delays the drug's effects in mice

Many people who smoke want to quit, but the urge to light up is often irresistible. An effective vaccine to help people kick the habit once and for all has been elusive. But now, scientists report in ACS' Journal of Medicinal ...

Health

Few get Rx to help quit smoking after COPD hospitalization

(HealthDay)—A minority of patients discharged with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) receive pharmacologic treatment for tobacco use, and treatment is not associated with smoking cessation, according to a study ...

Health

Pilot program finds success among smoking prisoners

A pilot quit smoking program trialled on prisoners in the Goldfields has helped quash the inmate's nicotine dependency, thereby laying the foundation for smoke-free prisons throughout WA.

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