A single dose of psilocybin, the active compound in magic mushrooms, appears significantly more effective than nicotine ...

The fight to stamp out cigarettes may be heading in a mind-bending new direction. Research published this week found that a ...

Psilocybin "should move forward in the FDA process," researchers say ...

Psilocybin, also known as “magic mushrooms,” may help smokers quit tobacco for the long term. Smokers who received psilocybin ...

I bought a vape stick in December 2015 to curb my social smoking habit. The result? Zero cigarettes smoked in 2016. But even though vape pens appear to be a much, much safer alternative to smoking, I ...

A new study, published in JAMA Network Open, reports the outcome of a clinical trial out of Johns Hopkins University ...

Despite earlier reports to the contrary, nicotine patches do not increase your risk for heart attack. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center compared 2,990 control subjects and ...

The nicotine patches that help smokers quit might also boost the recall of seniors with the mildest form of memory loss, according to results of a preliminary clinical trial on 11 people conducted at ...

Researchers now think nicotine patches could help the memory of people with early onset Alzheimer's disease and they're launching a study to find out. The University of Washington and Puget Sound VA ...

It is generally accepted that tobacco and nicotine in particular have an emetogenic effect. Most individuals experience nausea and diarrhoea with their first cigarette. A meta-analysis by Greenland et ...