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Pharmacologic Augmentation Can Aid Smokers Who Fail to Quit After Nicotine Patch

Smokers who fail to quit smoking with the nicotine patch, can be “rescued” by alert clinicians and provided adjunctive pharmacologic treatment to aid in smoking cessation. That finding is from a study of more than 600 smokers using the nicotine patch that is published online in AJP in Advance.

Researchers from Duke University's Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences followed 606 cigarette smokers who started open-label nicotine-patch treatment two weeks before an established quit date. Those whose smoking did not decrease by 50 percent or more after one week were randomly assigned to one of three double-blind...

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Published By: Psychiatric News - Yesterday