by Society for the Study of Addiction Credit: CC0 Public DomainA new study published in Addiction has found that cytisine, a low-cost, generic stop-smoking aid that has been used in Eastern Europe since the 1960s, increases the chances of successful smoking cessation by more than two-fold compared with placebo and may be more effective than...
by University of East Anglia Quit Sense is the world’s first Artificial Intelligence (AI) stop smoking app which detects when people are entering a location they used to smoke in. It then provides support to help manage people’s specific smoking triggers in that location. Credit: University of East Anglia A stop-smoking mobile app that senses...
The researchers developed a new machine learning method, where computer programs analyze data sets for patterns and trends, to identify the drugs and say that some of them are already being tested in clinical trials. Cigarette smoking is risk factor for cardiovascular disease, cancer, and respiratory diseases and accounts for nearly half a million deaths in the United...
by Cara Murez, HealthDay Reporter Giving up cigarettes can be excruciating, with cravings and withdrawal symptoms lingering for weeks, especially if you aren’t strongly motivated. Yet, just minutes after that first smoke-free breath, your body starts to change for the better. And with all the healthy breaths you take in the weeks and months that...
