Wednesday 1 October marks the start of Stoptober – an annual health campaign designed to help people quit smoking for good. Supported by the free NHS Quit Smoking app, people are challenged to go ...

A study of 410,000 adults finds current smokers have a lower Parkinson’s risk, while quitters have a higher Parkinson's risk but a much lower risk of death.

Smoking tobacco is so harmful to the body that it changes a person's immune system, leaving them vulnerable to more disease and infection even years after they've quit, a new study found.Video above: ...

The trend in varenicline use has changed sharply since the treatment’s supply disruption in July 2021, say researchers, who found that its use had fallen by almost 70% per year to December 2022. This ...

I received an interesting question from a reader whose husband has been a heavy smoker for many years. She tried to get him to stop but he has seen friends gain a lot of weight quickly when they quit ...

Current smokers had less incident Parkinson's, but higher mortality risk ...