When most people consider treatment for psychiatric problems, they usually consider medications and/or psychotherapy. However, emerging neuromodulation approaches using transcranial magnetic ...

Medically reviewed by Melissa Bronstein, LICSW Key Takeaways Withdrawal happens when a person stops or reduces intake of an ...

Sarah Todd returned to reporting in January 2025 after being assignment editor at STAT since October 2022. You can reach Sarah on Signal at sarahlizchar.47. The young people who wanted to quit ...

More than 2,000 clinical trial participants contributed to the body of evidence submitted in the NDA demonstrating cytisinicline’s efficacy, safety, and tolerability profile The cytisinicline NDA is ...

The percentage of those teens who made unsuccessful efforts to quit also doubled THURSDAY, Nov. 6, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Tweens and teens who vape are becoming hopelessly hooked on nicotine, a new ...

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 ...

Aversion therapy (AT) is a behavioral therapy that involves repeatedly pairing an undesirable behavior with an unpleasant experience with the goal of discouraging the undesirable behavior. Other names ...

Graham Smith-Thompson is proof that you can beat an addiction to tobacco. Now aged 79, he smoked for 66 years until the end of 2025. Smith-Thompson used to smoke more than 20 roll-up cigarettes a day ...

New evidence suggests the powerful addictive properties of nicotine upon teenage vapers Daily nicotine vaping doubled among U.S. middle and high school students between 2020 and 2024 The percentage of ...