“I remember thinking this is hokey and it’s not going to work,” Morgan recalled. — -- Yale graduate student Michelle Morgan started smoking at age 12. When the 35-year-old wanted to quit she ...

PHOENIX — The University of Arizona is attempting to develop an app designed to both help women quit smoking and prevent weight gain when they do. On average, women gain between five and 10 pounds ...

Cigarette smoking and cardiovascular risk increased even with 2 to 5 cigarettes daily, while smoking cessation delivered the ...

New research from Johns Hopkins Medicine adds to existing evidence that smoking fewer cigarettes does not eliminate ...

Smoking hurts everyone, but women under the age of 50 who smoke are at four to five times greater risk for having a heart attack, according to KOAT health expert Dr. Barry Ramo. He says most people ...

Smokers are more likely to give up their habit and remain smoke-free if given rewards for doing so, a study reveals. The incentives are particularly effective among pregnant women, who are twice as ...

The public and healthcare community are invited to a free training program on helping pregnant women quit smoking 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, April 30 at the Somerset County Administration Building ...

XENIA, Ohio (WDTN) – Greene County Public Health (GHPH) announced Friday a program that offers free diapers to expectant mothers who quit smoking. Expectant mothers who enroll in the program can earn ...

For American smokers, her portrait is a glimpse of a future perhaps too frightening to ponder, and for American health officials, too powerful to foist on an unprepared public: an unsparing photograph ...

One in five women in the U.S. are cigarette smokers. Women who didn't finish high school are three times more likely to smoke than women who finished college. Smokers include 30 percent of women ...