smoking cessation

To compare hospital claims and costs for major tobacco associated diseases with ICD 10 F17 tobacco dependence coding in Indonesian national health insurance claims and to assess whether the insurer records tobacco addiction or mainly pays for its complications.

From Stigma to Treatment: A Forum on Medical Cannabis Legalization in the Philippines The University of the Philippines Law Center Institute of Human Rights (UP IHR) hosted the public forum "From Stigma to Treatment: A Forum on Medical...

Source: Carpenter MJ, Smith TT, Wahlquist AE, et al. Medication Samples and Smoking Cessation Among Adults: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Netw Open. 2026;9(5):e2611418. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2026.11418 Abstract Importance Smoking...

Background Smoking is more common in lower socioeconomic position (SEP) groups, but smoking cessation interventions are less effective for these groups. StopCoach, an mHealth intervention, supports people with lower SEP in quitting smoking...

This webinar explored the provision of smoking cessation treatments, including e-cigarettes, in the context of primary care. It provided an overview of investigations into how smoking cessation treatment provision in the UK could be...

Contingency management (CM) is a psychological treatment based on operant conditioning. It consists of providing incentives in exchange for achieving a target behaviour such as abstinence or other treatmentrelated variables (e.g. session...

Key Points Question Did smoking cessation–related behaviours change during the COVID-19 pandemic in the US? Findings This cross-sectional study among 788 008 US adult smokers found that the annual prevalence of past-year quit attempts...

The Ministry of Health has been advised to add two non-nicotine drugs to Kenya’s Essential Medicines List, to help smokers quit tobacco and nicotine addiction. The World Health Organization said the two drugs bring “a powerful shift in the...