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Nicotine replacement therapies may not be effective in helping people quit smoking
( Harvard School of Public Health ) Nicotine replacement therapies designed to help people stop smoking, specifically nicotine patches and nicotine gum, do not appear to be effective in helping smokers quit long-term, even when combined with smoking cessation counseling, according to a new study by researchers at Harvard School of Public Health and the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Mon, 09 Jan 2012 09:23:08 -0800 Effectiveness of nicotine patch up in smoke
The promise of nicotine patches to help people quit smoking may have just gone up in smoke.
Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:45:50 -0800 Nicotine replacement has no long-term benefit when quitting smoking
Study suggests people who use nicotine gum or patches to quit smoking are just as likely to have relapsed a few years later Chewing nicotine gum or using nicotine-replacement patches offers no advantage in keeping smokers off cigarettes in the long term, according to scientists. They say that while nicotine-replacement therapies (NRTs) could be useful in the early stages of combatting withdrawal ...
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