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May 9, 2011Health
Addiction Centers Should Think Twice Before Banning Smoking: Trying to get drug addicts to quit drugs and smoking at the same time may drive them out of a program prematurely. Christopher Intagliata reports

January 25, 2011
Editor’s Selections: Movies, Addiction, and Liking: Here are my Research Blogging Editor’s Selections for this week: A new post by Scicurious recommends, “If you’re trying to quit smoking, it’s best to stay away from movies or TV shows depicting smoking, which might induce craving and cause you to relapse.” Easier said than done, perhaps...; Jason G. Goldman

January 14, 2013
Speakeasy Smoking? The Making of a Stigma: Fifty years ago, smoking was a matter of preference. (Didn't all the cool kids do it?) Today it's a vice. Smoking has been moralized; and it has gained a heavy social value that we use to judge smokers and leverage to try alter their behavior...; Krystal D'Costa

August 15, 2006Health
New Drug Helps Smokers Quit: David Biello

November 29, 2007Mind
See Your Doc to Stop Smoking: Two researchers from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health published a review in the November 20th issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal, of several hundred smoking studies...

January 9, 2018
Smoking Is Way Down in the U.S., but Not for People with Mental Illness: That’s one reason they tend to suffer from poorer health and die younger; Nathaniel P. Morris

November 12, 2013Health
Mondays Top Quit-Smoking Google Searches: Based on the number of searches for info about smoking cessation on Google, it appears more people consider quitting on Mondays than any other day. Dina Fine Maron reports

May 22, 2008Health
Failure to Kick Smoking Habit May Put a Drag on Social Life: New study shows pattern of "quitting cascades" permeate social networks; Nikhil Swaminathan

July 25, 2007Health
No Purchase Necessary For Anti-Smoking Product Ads To Work: The so-called spillover effect means that exposure to stop-smoking product ads persuades people to stop even if they don't buy the product. Steve Mirsky reports.

November 24, 1997The Sciences
Kicking the Habit: At last, a treatment that combats craving

June 21, 2011
FDA Unveils Graphic New Warning Labels for Cigarettes: It once was difficult for people to imagine that smoking might be harmful, as Siddhartha Mukherjee documents in The Emperor of All Maladies (Scribner, 2010).; Lauren F. Friedman

November 10, 2014Mind
"Vaping" Brain May Hold Clues to Smoking Addiction: British scientists say they have found the best way yet to analyze the effects of smoking on the brain -- by taking functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans of people while they puff on e-cigarettes...

March 21, 2011Health
Money over Matter: Can Cash Incentives Keep People Healthy?: Losing weight or quitting smoking might just be a small bonus away; Jordan Lite

January 29, 2013Health
Brain Circuitry behind Cigarette Cravings Revealed: Applying a weak electric current to a particular region of a smoker’s brain could curb nicotine cravings; Tanya Lewis and LiveScience

June 15, 2012
Graphic Warning Labels on Cigarettes Help Smokers Remember Dangers: This September, cigarette packs in the U.S. will be getting a lot more colorful. And a lot more disturbing. By then, tobacco companies will be required to display one of nine graphic health warnings on each pack, to comply with the Tobacco Control Act of 2009.The U.S...; Katherine Harmon

May 7, 2013Behavior & Society
Do Electronic Cigarettes Really Help Smokers Quit?: The results of the first trials on the efficacy of e-cigarettes are due this year, offering new hope for a stubborn addiction; Alisa Opar

October 21, 2013Health
Tobacco Companies Still Target Youth Despite a Global Treaty: With novel marketing and flavors to appeal to first-time smokers, Big Tobacco seems to be aiming for youth smokers in the developing world; Erin Brodwin

January 25, 2007Mind
Stroke Damage May Help Smokers Kick the Habit: The insula, an area of the brain largely ignored by researchers, may hold the key to breaking harmful addictions; Nikhil Swaminathan

May 19, 2015Wellness
Is Nicotine All Bad?: Scientists question if a daily dose of the well-known alkaloid is as benign as caffeine...; Kate Kelland

April 1, 2016The Body
Mother’s Smoking During Pregnancy Affects Baby’s DNA: Changes in gene expression may explain how smoking contributes to certain birth defects

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