Text message-based programming and the drug varenicline were the only 2 strategies that were shown to be effective for quitting vaping.
- Associate Professor, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford
Using varenicline can double, or even triple, a person’s chances of quitting smoking.
The drugs cytisine and varenicline are both effective at helping people stop smoking, but getting hold of them is not easy.
Three tobacco-flavored cartridges and a vaping device have been approved by the FDA for sale in the US. It comes after a decadelong debate over e-cigarettes.
Experts at Oxford University’s Centre for Evidence Based Medicine review the latest evidence on how to quit smoking.
Yet regulators remain torn.
Eight million people die from smoking each year. Let’s not stockpile the therapy that can help them quit.
A recent Cochrane review came to a surprising conclusion.
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