PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] -- Researchers have found that a mindfulness-based smartphone app designed to help people stop smoking was effective at reducing study participants' self-reported ...

People living with HIV often respond poorly to common smoking cessation treatments. After 4 weeks of using an app-based mindfulness intervention, anxiety was reduced and participants were more ready ...

A magnifying glass. It indicates, "Click to perform a search". A magnifying glass. It indicates, "Click to perform a search". WORCESTER, Mass., May 16, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- In a National Institutes of ...

image: Researchers in Georgia State University's School of Public Health have been awarded a five-year, $3.15 million grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH)'s National Cancer Institute to ...

Researchers have found that a mindfulness-based smartphone app designed to help people stop smoking was effective at reducing study participants' self-reported daily cigarette consumption. And those ...

For smokers looking for alternatives to help wean themselves off nicotine, researchers at the School of Public Health have a new option — a mindfulness app. “Craving to quit” is an app that delivers ...

ATLANTA and WORCESTER, Mass., Feb. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Sharecare, the digital health company that helps people manage all their health in one place, and MindSciences, the leader in evidence-based ...

Nicotine dependence is a tough addiction to beat. About half of current U.S. smokers actually gave up cigarettes for more than a day within the past year, but then relapsed. So it’s good news when a ...

“I remember thinking this is hokey and it’s not going to work,” Morgan recalled. — -- Yale graduate student Michelle Morgan started smoking at age 12. When the 35-year-old wanted to quit she ...

At this point, you’ve probably read of the detrimental impact doomscrolling habits can have on your mental health (if you couldn’t already tell by the fact that doing it makes you feel terrible).