quitting

'I'll take you on vacation if you quit smoking,' I told Jon a few months ago. An incredibly stressful situation at work lead to him taking up the ... Read More »

Genetics may be to blame for hooking some people on cigarettes. Genetics may make some smokers more prone to lung cancer too, say three new studies. ... Read More »

If you're one of the 21 percent of the American public that still smokes, it's possible that you're also part of the large percentage (70 percent) ... Read More »

It's a fact -- 80% of smokers gain weight when they quit. So which is a worse habit: being overweight or being a smoker? Both have been shown to lead ... Read More »

Some smokers I've talked to in the past believed that not only was it too hard to stop smoking, that their health was already damaged; so, why not ... Read More »

Sick of dealing with the haze from your office's smoking area? Wish the colleagues you've grown to care about would stop killing themselves with their ... Read More »

Smokers looking for a way to quit now have yet another option: Thrive nicotine replacement gum by Novartis. Just approved by the FDA, Thrive is ... Read More »

If you have lots of bad habits (and I think most of us do) it seems working on them simultaneously may be the most effective way to quit, as opposed ... Read More »

It is no news flash that there are many rewards in trying to stop smoking. After smoking bans started popping up all over the place, the urge to ... Read More »

If you smoked 40 cigarettes a day, and you cut back to 20, your lungs are twice as healthy -- right? Wrong. According to researchers, smokers who ... Read More »