Check for clogged arteries do not help smokers kick the habit if they have smoking cessation programs, Swiss researchers have found.
Yet that’s sometimes that excuse when doctors recommend expensive scan, called a carotid plaque screening, which experts say has no proven benefits in people without symptoms of cardiovascular disease.

At a time when actor Hrithik Roshan has been propagating among his family and friends, the side effects of smoking, his close friend Shah Rukh Khan seems less likely to kick the butt anytime soon.

For teens, image and acceptance can be everything, which often explains their sometimes risky choices — like lighting up a cigarette among friends.

Do you want to quit smoking in 2012? Are you tired of being addicted or of spending your spare cash on cigarettes? Perhaps you are worried about the effects of passive smoking for your relatives. Unfortunately cigarette smoking causes the deaths of 443,000 Americans every year, making it the biggest preventable cause of disease, disability and death in the United States.

SOUTHERN Cross University First Class Honours student Jamie Hetherington believes a multi-faceted approach could help smokers quit their deadly habit.

Roshan gifts co-star Sanjay Dutt a copy of Allen Carr’s Easy Way… to help him quit smoking

Did you know that tobacco use in the United States costs an estimated $197 billion a year in lost productivity and health care costs? Add to that second-hand smoke, which costs an additional $10 billion in losses. Tobacco use contributes to one of every five deaths, and smokers die an average of 13 years earlier than nonsmokers.

There could be a better way to help people snuff out the smoking habit.