COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A Columbus Public Health program is helping mothers across central Ohio get healthy for themselves and their babies. The most recent data from Columbus’ infant mortality rate ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The intervention reduced acute health care costs by an average of $42 per person per month. The ...

Integrating telephone-based smoking cessation and lung screening programs not only have the potential to maximize long-term health benefits, but they can also be cost-effective in the long term, ...

In 2016, Mississippi State University became a smoke-free campus. Smoking cessation programs are offered to students and employees who wish to stop using tobacco products through the Longest Student ...

Sometimes it really does "take a village" to help you meet life's challenges, and quitting smoking can be one of the toughest challenges out there. That's why specially designed smoking-cessation ...

Between excess healthcare costs and lost productivity, employers lose about $8,000 annually per employee who smokes versus non-smokers. That adds up quickly. Helping people quit using tobacco is just ...

image: Charis Baumgartner, a clinical nurse coordinator, completes a tobacco assessment of a patient at Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in ...

If you do not want to complete a tobacco cessation program (e.g., you have already quit), you may submit Tobacco User Certification Form at the point where you have not used tobacco in the last 12 ...

As a medical doctor and a community health advocate, I am increasingly alarmed by the proliferation of new tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, that are highly addictive and clearly targeting ...