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Be wary of subsidising nicotine replacement therapy [PDF]

Tobacco Control, 2002
The efficacy of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) as a smoking cessation aid has been convincingly demonstrated in a large number of studies, including many randomised trials.1 Findings from these studies have prompted suggestions that widespread access to NRT could substantially increase quitting in a population, thereby reducing population smoking ...
C, Miller, S, Kriven, D, Rowley, L, Abram   +3 more
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Overcoming Challenges to Treating Tobacco use During Pregnancy - A Qualitative study of Australian General Practitioners Barriers

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2019
Background General practitioners can play an important role in addressing smoking among pregnant women but studies suggest they rarely do so. The aim of this study was to explore general practitioners perceptions about the management of smoking in ...
Yael Bar-Zeev, Eliza Skelton, Billie Bonevski, Maree Gruppetta, Gillian S. Gould   +4 more
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Oral health and nicotine replacement therapy product

, 2020
Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) products are used extensively for assisting users in achieving cessation goals through the substitution of pure nicotine with tobacco-less products. Awareness of the adverse oral effects of nicotine replacement products
Itthagarun, Anut, Miliankos, Andrew, George, Roy, Manakil, Jane, Gray, Megan   +4 more
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The role of doctors in smoking cessation: evidence from the Cochrane Library

SA Heart Journal, 2021
This article examines the role of doctors in assisting patients who smoke to quit, using evidence from Cochrane systematic reviews of randomised trials.
Tim Lancaster
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A pilot randomised controlled trial of the feasibility of using body scan and isometric exercises for reducing urge to smoke in a smoking cessation clinic. [PDF]

, 2008
BACKGROUND: The main cause of relapse in smokers attempting to quit is inability to resist urges to smoke. Pharmacotherapy ameliorates but does not entirely prevent urges to smoke when abstinent, so other methods to resist urges to smoke might be helpful.
Stenner, S, Neha Prasad, Stenner, Sarah, Michael Ussher, Lemees Al-Chalabi, Prasad, Neha, Ussher, M, Prasad Neha, Steed, Lucy, Jane Beach, Al-Chalabi, L, Stenner Sarah, Al-Chalabi Lemees, Aveyard Paul, Prasad, N, Aveyard, P, Paul Aveyard, Beach Jane, Beach, Jane, Al-Chalabi, Lemees, Steed Lucy, Ussher, Michael, Ussher Michael, Steed, L, Beach, J, Aveyard, Paul, Lucy Steed, Sarah Stenner   +27 more
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Nicotine replacement therapy [PDF]

BMJ, 1994
EDITOR, - Jin Ling Tang and colleagues' systematic analysis of randomised trails of the efficacy of nicotine replacement therapy in helping people to stop smoking1 is an important contribution to evidence of the effectiveness of nicotine gum and patches in stopping smoking. As the authors conclude, these aids …
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Varenicline versus nicotine replacement therapy for long-term smoking cessation: an observational study using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink

Health Technology Assessment, 2020
Background: Smoking is the leading avoidable cause of illness and premature mortality. The first-line treatments for smoking cessation are nicotine replacement therapy and varenicline.
Neil M Davies, Amy E Taylor, Gemma MJ Taylor, Taha Itani, Tim Jones, Richard M Martin, Marcus R Munafò, Frank Windmeijer, Kyla H Thomas   +8 more
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The tobacco epidemic – pharmacological interventions for smoking cessation

Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2023
Introduction: One of the biggest public health threats in the world is tobacco epidemic. According to WHO in the world cigarette smoking is the most common form of tobacco use.
Natalia Sergiel, Patrycja Maj, Karolina Włodarczyk-Cybulska, Agata Kania, Malwina Gonet, Karolina Miszczyk, Aleksandra Serwik-Trandasir, Piotr Mozer, Jakub Maternia, Michał Lazar   +9 more
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Nicotine replacement therapy

BMJ, 2004
Although products for nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) have been available for over 20 years, they have been excluded until recently from state or insurance based health service provision in the United Kingdom and many other countries. They have therefore not been widely prescribed by doctors who help smokers wanting to quit.
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Pre-quitting nicotine replacement therapy: Findings from a pilot study [PDF]

, 2006
Background Using nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) while still smoking in the lead up to quitting could enhance success at quitting, one of the most cost-effective means of improving health, but little is known about its acceptability and tolerability.
Natalie Walker, Robyn Whittaker, Chris Bullen, Mark Wallace-Bell   +3 more
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