Training health professionals in stop-smoking techniques helps encourage health professionals to ask patients if they are smoking. If a patient is smoking, health professionals are then equipped with ...

Current smokers faced up to 12-fold higher risk for age-related macular degeneration, a threefold higher risk for primary open-angle glaucoma, and a fourfold higher risk for cataracts. The risk for ...

For the first time since 2021, a pill used to help people quit smoking—varenicline—will again be available from the NHS. Varenicline is one of the most effective ways to quit smoking and is deemed an ...

The health hazards from smoking cigarettes are well-known. The nicotine in tobacco is the addictive substance. Some smokers can stop smoking on their own. Others benefit from smoking-cessation aids.