Review Finds Licensed Medicines Effective For Smoking Cessation

A latest review of 267 studies involving 101,804 people has led to the conclusion that licensed quit smoking medicines are indeed effective for triggering off smoking cessation.   

 

A group of researchers carried out the review to study the success rates of quit smoking medicines in comparison to placebos. The researchers considered a participant to be successful in smoking cessation if he quit smoking for a period of six months or more.

 

However, as the review came to a close, the researchers discovered that all medications were successful in improving quit smoking chances for smokers. The participants taking varenicline (chantix) or a nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) had twice or three times more chances of quitting.  Smokers opting for a single NRT or administering bupropion, were 80% more likely to quit smoking than those taking placebos.

 

The researchers found out that those smokers who administered only varenicline had 50% more chances of successful smoking cessation in comparison to patients taking any nicotine replacement therapy.  Also, the results were the same when compared to participants taking any combination of two nicotine replacement therapies.  

 

Kate Cahill, the lead researcher, states that the review offers powerful evidence to prove that the main therapies available for smoking cessation, namely, varenicline(chantix), bupropion and nicotine-replacement therapy can help people quit smoking successfully. 

 

The review was published in the Cochrane Library. 

Source:  healthland.time.com,  Date:  31^st May 2013

 

 

New Quit Smoking Initiative Offers Help to Smokers In South Derbyshire

Derbyshire County Stop Smoking Service has joined hands with Sainsbury’s, off Civic Way, to offer help and support to smokers in South Derbyshire who are looking forward to trigger off smoking cessation. Derbyshire County Stop Smoking Service is gearing up to provide quit smoking assistance with the help of its expert stop smoking advisors.

Carol Wynn, an expert quit smoking advisor, discloses that the Derbyshire County stop smoking service operates famous and busy quit smoking clinics in the Swadlincote area of South Derbyshire. The Derbyshire County stop smoking service is a part of Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Trust.

 

Carol Wynn states that people love coming to the clinics and the Derbyshire County stop smoking service has been very successful in helping them trigger off smoking cessation.  

Source: burtonmail.co.uk, 27^th May 2013

Clinic Located On College Campus Helps Students Stop Smoking

According to a latest revelation, thirteen college students from Dubai Men’s College at the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) have taken help from a quit smoking clinic located on the campus and triggered off smoking cessation successfully.

Health authorities from the UAE are dealing with the increasing use of shisha or dokha, cigarettes or other tobacco products by the young generation.

 

The staff members, students and the team from the clinic have talked to Gulf News about the students` triggering off smoking cessation.

 

Source:  gulfnews.com, date 24^th May 2013