The study provides new data for clinicians treating patients who want to quit smoking.
Most smokers do successfully quit after their first attempt. Switching patients from nicotine replacement therapy like the patch and lozenge to
Participants who failed to abstain from cigarette smoking after the initial period were re-randomized to continue the same treatment, switch therapies, or increase the dosages to ≥ 3 mg of varenicline or a 42-mg patch and lozenges for another 6 weeks. At the conclusion of initial treatment, the varenicline group consisted of 157 people who failed to abstain from smoking and 191 people who failed in the nicotine replacement therapy group.After the initial intervention period, the prescription drug appeared to be more effective for smoking cessation: 22% of those who received combined nicotine replacement therapy abstained from smoking and 36% abstained in the varenicline group .
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