You can get addicted to nicotine within days of starting to use it. Nicotine affects the brain by releasing dopamine, which ...

A new paper in Nicotine and Tobacco Research, published by Oxford University Press, finds that people experiencing more economic disadvantages are more likely to smoke cigarettes, have higher levels ...

Is marijuana addicting? A caller to my talk show today talked about how his son was addicted to smoking pot and that he doesn’t seem to have the ability to quit. When I smoked pot in the past, I never ...

You're at a party and all of a sudden, the unmistakable whiff of cigarette smoke hits you from the direction of one of your friends, who's just stepped out for some "fresh air." "I didn't know you ...

LONDON – According to a study recently published in the journal Tobacco Control, a child who smokes just one cigarette can be addicted to tobacco for the rest of his or her life. A survey conducted by ...

Quitting feels hard because nicotine changes both the brain and the daily routine around it. The most common way to quit ...