To stop smoking, nicotine patches for longer
A study by the University of Pennsylvania said that treatments with these products extend over months that the recommended increase the chances of quitting.
Treatment with nicotine patches that are left in patients six months, and not the two recommendations would be much more effective in helping you quit smoking, according to new research published yesterday in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine.
The study was conducted by the School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. Caryn Lerman, the author remarked that these new findings should serve to modify and give a new spin on smoking cessation treatments.
The research involved 568 people who used the nicotine patch Nicoderm Code and after six months, patches inactive.
After this process, patients who received continuous treatment were twice as likely to quit as those who receive the patch inactive after eight weeks.
“We found that extending the duration of therapy to 24 weeks was significantly more effective in helping smokers quit, compared with standard duration of eight weeks,” said Lerman, according to published news agency Prensa Latina.
However, after a year left to differentiate the most important measurements of those who had made the long-term treatment and smoking and those who do not. That’s why scientists continue to experiences to determine if there is a exact time to be completed treatment with patches to quit snuff, or be combined therapies.
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