Any financial incentive – from cash to vouchers, acts as a major psychological motivation, tempting people to get over their ...

Technology in smartwatches could help people quit smoking, according to researchers who have developed an app which ...

Smoking remains one of the most challenging habits to overcome, but new research suggests that rewards and incentives can ...

The researchers has developed a smartwatch fitted with a custom app which uses in-built motion sensors to detect typical ...

Residents being asked if they gave up through sheer personal determination or using the free support available via the NHS ...

Characteristics of participants are displayed in Table 1. All smokers had started smoking at a time when this was socially acceptable. Most had started smoking because of social reasons.

Women in the two groups reported comparable reasons for wanting to stop smoking during pregnancy. While citing broadly similar factors as influencing their quit attempts, their accounts differed ...

National Non-Smoking Week begins this weekend and the province wants to raise awareness about the benefits of quitting ...

Sheila Duffy, chief executive of ASH Scotland, said: "Ahead of No Smoking Day on 12 March, we would love to hear successful quit smoking stories from people in Fife about how they have started to live ...