Public health messages have told us for decades that if you smoke, you should quit. And if you don’t smoke, don’t start. But a new study suggests smoking may be even worse than we thought. The study, ...

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 ...

It doesn't matter how long you've been smoking, quitting is the single biggest thing you can do to improve your health, say experts I’ve been an off and on smoker since I first pinched one of my dad’s ...

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: ...

Withdrawals and cravings are side effects of quitting smoking, according to Dr. Sanjay Sethi of the University of Buffalo. Your risk of developing certain cancers also decreases when you stop smoking, ...

What you should know about the long-term effects of smoking [ProHealth] At first, it may seem harmless, just a puff here and there. But over time, smoking takes a toll on your body in ways you may not ...

Although quitting smoking during the 1 st trimester of pregnancy reduces the risk of low birth weight, it isn't enough to protect the unborn child from being born shorter and with smaller brain size, ...

This study examined how factors associated with body image predict regular smoking in adolescent females. Data were from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), a study of ...

Some research links smoking to weight changes. However, it may not cause weight gain directly. Quitting smoking has shown links to minimal weight gain, for various reasons. Smoking is the most common ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. A middle-aged cigarette smoker who has smoked for decades is two to three times more likely to die early than ...