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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. Read the rest of this entry »