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(MedPage Today) -- Most smokers who have a stroke have not dropped the habit by one year after the event, which might be related to their intentions to quit before the stroke and the location of the stroke, researchers found.

LONDON (AP) -- A pill developed in Bulgaria during the Soviet era shows promise for helping millions of smokers cheaply and safely kick the habit, the first big study of it shows....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists say they've finally discovered why smokers tend to gain some weight when they kick the habit....

The easy, in-office blood test gives smokers "objective evidence" the habit is hurting them, making them more likely to quit.

Most Medicaid programs in the U.S. offer at least some form of health care coverage to enrollees who are trying to quit smoking, but in many states more could be done to help people kick the habit, the CDC says.

CHICAGO (AP) -- Have you ever worked on your laptop computer with it sitting on your lap, heating up your legs?

If so, you might want to rethink that habit....

A 2-year-old Indonesian boy whose chain-smoking had much of the world fuming has kicked the habit.

WebMD answers common concerns about children who co-sleep with their parents at night and how to help them break the habit and sleep in their own beds.

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) -- Brazil's president says a recent health scare led him to quit smoking - a habit he's had for 50 years....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- With support from a president who's been trying to kick the habit himself, lawmakers renewed their efforts Monday to require government regulation of cigarettes....