Walmart has made $4 generics the talk of medicine. But are generic medications always as good as their name-brand counterparts? Not always. The Wall S...
Last week I attended the 4th annual meeting of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (Europe) in Madrid. This is a conference where the top...
Bupropion (marketed as Zyban for smoking cessation and Wellbutrin for depression) is approved by the US Food and Drug Administration as safe and effec...
STOP SMOKING MEDICINE:NEW DRUG CHANTIX MAY BE MORE THAN JUST SMOKE:MARK TWAIN WAS JUST PLAIN WRONG A VIDEO OF QUIT SMOKING ADVICECHANTIX: BREATH OF FR...
A genetic variant (SNP) of the CYP2B6 gene present in almost half of Americans of European descent is linked to greater effectiveness of the stop smok...
Filed under: All Cancers, SmokingMore ideas on quitting smoking from the researchers on the Cochrane team. How about a hospital stay?Since hospitals a...
The Cortlandt Forum describes an interesting malpractice case in which a drug-drug interaction between Tegretol and a birth control pill led to pregna...
From a reader:For many people, going in to hospital provides an opportunity to stop smoking ... They also found that adding nicotine replacement thera...
A press release from the Cochrane Library:For many people, going in to hospital provides an opportunity to stop smoking. A Cochrane Systematic Review ...
Adolescent smokers are more likely than non-smokers to subsequently develop depression, and adult smokers are more likely to have either current depre...