Smoking Cessation

United States Preventive Services Task Force recommended that clinicians ask all adults about tobacco use and provide them with behavioral interventions and even FDA-approved pharmacotherapy to help them quit smoking.

Religiously tailored text messages intended to decrease smoking during Ramadan were “feasible and acceptable” among Muslim men in Minnesota, results of a single-arm observational study showed.

E-cigarette use combined with use of traditional cigarettes may confer similar inflammatory and oxidative stress to exclusive use of traditional cigarettes, according to research published in Circulation.

Current tobacco control programs over the past two decades led to a decrease in overall cigarette use uptake in the United States and California, with reductions largely observed among non-Hispanic white adults, according to a new study.

Vitamin C supplementation, in conjunction with smoking cessation counseling, significantly increased airway function through 12 months of age among the offspring of pregnant smokers, researchers reported in the European Respiratory Journal.

On the third Thursday of each November, the American Cancer Society encourages the estimated 32.4 million smokers in the United States to begin the “journey to a smoke-free life” in the “Great American Smokeout.”

Compared with never smokers, current smokers had elevated risk for CV mortality, which was higher the earlier a person began smoking, researchers reported.

iCanQuit, an acceptance and commitment therapy-based smoking cessation app, helped more smokers quit than the National Cancer Institute’s QuitGuide, a U.S. clinical practice guidelines app based on avoidance of smoking triggers, data show.

Improving CV health by meeting components of Life’s Simple 7 may reduce the risk for incident hypertension when the lower hypertension threshold of 130/80 mm Hg is used, researchers found.

Tobacco use and smoking, in particular, wreak widespread havoc on the musculoskeletal system.