Bupropion(Zyban) is a medication that is used primarily for treatingdepression. This drug, however, also is effective in helping people to quit smoking and has been approved by the U.S. FDA for use in smoking cessation in adults. Other agents that have been tried for cessation of smoking i...
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Although Yellin and Anselm called varenicline the most effective medication for smoking cessation, they noted that it was prescribed the least often among patients with and without asthma alike. The researchers also attributed the high rates of bupropion prescriptions to its indications outside...
“I want to quit and feel I had enough of smoking. Last year, I felt smoking was not interesting, so I attempted to quit. I bought “Jie Yan Ling” [a Chinese smoking cessation medication] from a pharmacy in Daguan Village. It cost 10 yuan per package and each package contained 16 [...
17 Observational studies have found that people who stop smoking are less likely to be prescribed antidepressants and anxiolytics.18 However, observational data are at risk of confounding; therefore, the associations reported between smoking cessation and improved mental health outcomes should be taken ...
cessation as well as provide insight into the impact of the addiction level on the success of quitting. Although the pharmacotherapy prescribed was based on the number of cigarettes smoked per day, which is an acceptable measure of nicotine addiction and dependence, this study used the Readiness ...
number of cigarettes smoking per day, and comorbidities including lung cancer, stroke, COPD and AMI were significant predictors of successful quitting among smokers who were prescribed NRT.Conclusions: Each different type of smoking cessation medication may be particularly beneficial to certain smoking sub...
CSG also offers smoking-cessation counselling to all other citizens from the community of So Paulo city who desire to participate in it, yet The authors do not delivery these medicines free of charge for this population.PurposeThe authors aimed to: a) verify patients adherence to CSG in those...
cohort study, researchers found that people with cancer were less likely than controls to havesmoking statusrecorded by their GP (37 percent versus 78 percent), be given advice to quit smoking (23 percent versus 45 percent), or be prescribedsmoking cessation medication(12 percent versus 21 ...
Smoking cessation medication prescribed to patient – 13 percent of cancer patients versus 22 percent of coronary heart disease patients. In the year following diagnosis, around one-third (36.7 percent) of cancer patients had stopped smoking, compared with almost half (44.4 percent) of coronary hear...