Smoking is a habit and like all habits, it's hard to quit. Doctors share their personal experiences with quitting and what helped them through it.

Medications that help smokers quit appear to have another benefit: reducing heavy drinking. Researchers in the United States and Russia have found that a variety of therapies to reduce the craving for ...

Dietmar Bär looks back on 23 years of smoking and calls it his biggest regret. The Cologne "Tatort" detective describes ...

Heather Le Biller shed 9 pounds within the first week of taking Novo Nordisk's blockbuster diabetes drug Ozempic – and then even more as she continued treatment. Le Biller, a flight attendant who ...

My views on nicotine addiction don't fit any known template. Except my own. And, oh, the facts. And to show how mainstream, how core, my views are, I‘ll refer in this post to only U.S. Government ...

(Reuters Health) – Alcohol-dependent people quickly process nicotine in their bodies and that may make it more difficult to quit smoking, suggests a small study of Polish men. “We didn’t measure what ...

Semaglutide could help people drink less alcohol. Semaglutide, a medication widely used for diabetes and weight loss, may offer another unexpected benefit -- it could help people drink less alcohol. A ...

The World Health Organization has reported that over 100 million people worldwide, including 15 million teenagers, are using ...

DEAR ABBY: My mother-in-law is a heavy smoker. She lives two hours away from us, so when she visits, she likes to stay for one or two nights. My husband and I have a 3-year-old son, and my MIL’s ...

Even people who consider themselves to be casual cigarette smokers may be addicted, according to current diagnostic criteria. Researchers at Penn State College of Medicine and Duke University found ...