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Category: Smoking
A new study shows that quitting smoking after a heart attack has immediate benefits, including less chest pain, better quality of daily life and improved mental health.
Mindfulness meditation may help smokers quit - even those with no willpower
Smoking could play a direct role in the development of schizophrenia and needs to be investigated, researchers say. The team at King's College London say smokers are more likely to develop the disorder and at a younger age.
Hypnosis is the most effective way of giving up smoking, according to the largest ever scientific comparison of ways of breaking the habit. Willpower, it turns out, counts for very little.
Smoking among England's adult population is set to drop below 20 per cent for the first time in a century, it was revealed today. An ongoing survey of tobacco use is expected to show the turning point being crossed by the end of this year.