Scottish government considers nicotine addiction treatment for children aged under 12 years Experts say that teachers and parents are raising concerns about nicotine addiction in children aged under 12 years.…
E-cigarettes associated with greatest chance of smoking cessation, suggests Cochrane review The review revealed that 10–19% of people were likely to quit smoking using an e-cigarette, 12–16% using varenicline and 10–18% using cytisine.…
Filling the gap in smoking cessation therapies: a race to a smoke-free 2030 Nicotine replacement therapy is currently the only pharmacological treatment available in the UK to help tobacco smokers quit, but this is set to change.…
Patients to be referred to community pharmacy smoking cessation scheme from lung cancer checks The expansion will allow patients to be referred to the smoking cessation scheme from targeted lung health checks, which are offered to current and ex-smokers aged 55–74 years.…
Smoking cessation drug led to almost a third of smokers quitting during phase III trial Participants taking cytisinicline in the ORCA-2 study had a higher abstinence rate from smoking than those assigned to placebo.…
Pharmacists now able to refer patients to extended pharmacy pregnancy smoking cessation service Exclusive: Any community pharmacist in the pilot area can now refer patients to the smoking cessation scheme.…
Government working to reintroduce varenicline following contamination concerns Smoking cessation aid varenicline was recalled by Pfizer in October 2021 owing to the presence of a possible human carcinogen.…
‘Strong certainty’ that e-cigarettes are better than other nicotine replacement therapy for quitting smoking, review finds People using e-cigarettes were 63% more likely to quit smoking than those using other nicotine replacement therapy, according to a Cochrane review.…
More than 2,000 pharmacies sign up for smoking cessation service in first two months Since the smoking cessation service for discharged hospital patients went live in March 2022, 2,200 community pharmacies have signed up to provide it.…
E-cigarettes more effective than patches for stopping smoking in pregnancy, study suggests Quit rates using e-cigarettes were 6.8%, compared with 3.6% when nicotine patches were used, a study has found.…
