Text Messaging Helps Smokers Break the Habit

Wednesday, March 9, 2011 - 11:30 in Health & Medicine

A pair of related studies on smoking cessation by researchers at the University of Oregon and other institutions have isolated the brain regions most active in controlling urges to smoke and demonstrated the effectiveness of text-messaging to measure and intervene in those urges.

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