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  • Clinical hypnosis helps Veteran nip smoking in the butt

    Clinical hypnosis helps Veteran nip smoking in the butt

    In clinical hypnosis, Army Veteran Walter Hauser found an anchor that helped him overcome a 60-plus-year cigarette smoking habit and find better Whole Health.

  • Kicking the habit: A smoking cessation success story

    Kicking the habit: A smoking cessation success story

    Navy Veteran Frederick Hamilton quit tobacco after years, inspired by a VA smoking cessation support group. Now tobacco-free, he feels "like a million bucks."

  • VA can make it easier for you to quit smoking

    VA can make it easier for you to quit smoking

    It’s not easy to quit smoking, but every year more than 100,000 Veterans do. For the Great American Smokeout, learn how VA can help you stop too.

  • Three resources to help you quit smoking

    Three resources to help you quit smoking

    VA apps can help Veterans who want to kick their smoking habit and improve their health and well-being.

  • Now is the perfect time to try to stop smoking again

    Now is the perfect time to try to stop smoking again

    For the Great American Smokeout, explore VA resources and learn why every attempt to stop smoking is a step toward success.

  • VA’s Stay Quit Coach app helped VA employee quit smoking

    VA’s Stay Quit Coach app helped VA employee quit smoking

    VA staff member Joni Stalnaker used the Stay Quit Coach app to quit smoking. She now encourages Veterans and other VA staff to use VA tools.

  • Quit smoking this New Year!

    Quit smoking this New Year!

    Support your loved ones who smoke by talking about the risks of smoking. Here are great resources available to help them quit.

  • Study: Smoking increases risk of death for Veterans with COVID-19

    Study: Smoking increases risk of death for Veterans with COVID-19

    COPD is a group of respiratory diseases that limit airflow and make it hard to breathe. It’s usually linked to an abnormal inflammatory response in the lungs to noxious particles or gases, such as cigarette smoke.

  • Want to quit smoking? World No Tobacco Day encourages you to live life without tobacco

    Want to quit smoking? World No Tobacco Day encourages you to live life without tobacco

    World No Tobacco Day - May 31: VA urges Veterans to learn from each attempt to stop using tobacco. Those lessons can help you stop using tobacco for good.

  • 2021 is the year you quit smoking

    2021 is the year you quit smoking

    Smoking harms the lungs, heart, and nearly every organ in the body. Veterans have many options to receive tobacco cessation treatment without leaving home. Print this blog for you or your Veteran.

  • Veterans share how they quit smoking

    Veterans share how they quit smoking

    New England VA helps Veterans with support needed to quit smoking. Success is not due to willpower or luck. Here’s how three Veterans kicked the habit and are living healthier lives.

  • VA researchers study effects of smoking on therapeutic stem cells

    VA researchers study effects of smoking on therapeutic stem cells

    Huang and Dr. Alex Chan, a postdoctoral research fellow at VA Palo Alto, are studying the effects of nicotine, a highly addictive tobacco stimulant normally inhaled with cigarettes, on therapeutic stem cells.

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Last updated December 23, 2025

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