Nicotine addiction remains one of the most persistent public health challenges worldwide, driven by changes in the brain that reinforce repeated use and make quitting extremely difficult. For decades, ...

You can get addicted to nicotine within days of starting to use it. Nicotine affects the brain by releasing dopamine, which ...

Variants in a nicotine receptor gene are associated with a lower likelihood of heavy smoking, according to a study published in Nature Communications. The findings are based on data from populations ...

Yes, research shows that vaping carries the same risks for nicotine addiction as cigarette smoking. The same tools used to help people stop smoking can also be used to help quit to reduce vape use.

Editorial: The UN is set to review the legal status of nicotine. An outright ban would go too far, but there is no case for its easy availability ...

When I was in medical training in the 1970s, 40 percent of adults in the U.S. smoked cigarettes. There were cigarette vending machines everywhere, cigarettes cost a low 40 cents per pack, making teen ...

For years, public health officials have warned that flavored nicotine pouches, lozenges and gum were finding their way into ...

One of my 18-year-old patients beseeched me to write a post about vaping. He told me that he has tried to quit vaping nicotine on a few occasions and was dismayed to find that his addiction to ...

Industry uses influencers and sleek flavours to normalise addiction as only 35% of women now see smoking as unacceptable.

UCSF’s Dr. Pamela Ling explains why the FDA’s Zyn ruling risks a new generation of nicotine addiction, despite being marketed ...