The Center for Disease Control and Prevention's "Tips From Former Smokers" ads are set to stop at the end of September. For 13 years, these tough and honest commercials told real stories about the ...

'Tips From Former Smokers' ads will end in September after 13 years The ads encouraged millions to give up tobacco and helped more than a million succeed Public health experts warn ending the ads ...

In 2014, the CDC launched a national tobacco education campaign to get Americans to quit smoking. A report measuring the latest outcomes of the campaign suggests the ads are still having a significant ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A 2012 national TV ad campaign that featured real people living with diseases and injuries caused by smoking was tied to 1.6 million smokers making quit attempts and over ...

A man’s breathing is so tortured from emphysema it takes him more than a minute to speak a word. Another is paralyzed from a stroke. Others have had limbs amputated, lungs removed, and heart attacks.

Number of calls to 1-800-QUIT-NOW, a toll-free number that helps people quit smoking, last week — the first week of the CDC’s $54 million graphic antismoking ad campaign. The phone line had received ...

(AP) Health officials say a graphic new anti-smoking campaign led to a doubling of calls to a toll-free number that helps people quit cigarettes. Calls to 1-800-QUIT-NOW totaled more than 33,000 last ...

People who smoke often desire to quit. Yet smoking can be a hard habit to break, even knowing the clear link between smoking and cancer. While there are smoking cessation programs that can help, many ...

Research shows the campaign led to millions of attempts to stop smoking and more than 1 million long-term quits between 2012 and 2023. HealthDay News — The US Centers for Disease Control and ...

The campaign saved billions of dollars in health care costs by preventing smoking-related illnesses. HealthDay News — The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will stop airing its “Tips ...

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 27, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will stop airing its “Tips From Former Smokers” ads at the end of September, ending a 13-year ...