Self-reported smoking during pregnancy underestimates the true number of pregnant smokers in Scotland by 17%, and results in a failure to detect 2400 pregnant smokers each year, finds new research published on bmj.com today. This results in thousands of smokers not being identified or offered smoking cessation services, say the authors.

Whenever Alyse Leavitt visits her doctor, the guy in white always asks a question Leavitt never likes to answer. Does she still smoke? Leavitt, 25, has been smoking since she was 16 and always has to answer that yes, she does. That is, until now. Thanks to a melding of ancient Eastern medicine and modern technology, Leavitt hasn't touched a cigarette...

The year 2010 is now upon us, and therefore it's time to embrace our New Year's resolutions. If you are like some 22% of Americans, you've promised to make 2010 the year in which you finally quit smoking. Unfortunately, for many smokers this is not the first year that they have resolved to kick the habit. However, for residents of the Philadelphia region,...

Most people can readily agree that the idea to quit smoking is rather terrifying. Giving up the comfort that smoking can provide is not easy, nor can it be done instantly. Struggling to quit requires a lot of honest talks, not only with yourself but also with your family.

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'Quitting smoking is easy. I've done it a thousand times.” This quote by Mark Twain, aptly describes how tough it is for the addicts to stop smoking once and for all. Quitting cold turkey does help many smokers but many succumb to the temptation of having a puff again which gradually leads them back to their habit of chain smoking. In fact it has...