Brad Wienczkowski didn’t want to leave treatment. He had just finished detox, and he still felt sick from withdrawal symptoms. He didn’t feel ready to be on his own after seven years of injecting ...

After nearly three years, Philadelphia’s Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services has quietly ended its controversial smoking ban at drug treatment centers. DBHIdS ...

Smokers with smoking-related diseases who are hospitalized in rehabilitation centers should be offered smoking cessation. This is the first study evaluating whether telephone booster sessions after ...

CENTER CITY (WPVI) -- Philadelphia health officials say the smoking ban at the city's drug treatment centers isn't detering people from seeking addiction help. They started the smoking ban at all city ...

This July 2021 photo provided by Preston Browning shows him at the Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn. Browning, 20, of Ridgetop, Tenn., who is recovering from cancer surgery, quit smoking ...

A new ban on smoking at Philadelphia’s city-funded residential drug treatment centers has rankled some area social workers, who fear it will drive those battling addiction away from recovery programs ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. When cancer patients stop smoking, they heal ...

When cancer patients stop smoking, they heal faster, experience fewer side effects from treatment and lower their chances of tumors returning. Now, top cancer hospitals are helping patients quit as ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. When cancer patients stop smoking, they heal ...

When cancer patients stop smoking, they heal faster, experience fewer side effects from treatment and lower their chances of tumors returning. Now, top cancer hospitals are helping patients quit as ...