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Smokers have much more success kicking the habit when they get help

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Sean Bruna had smoked for about 10 years when he decided to face his nicotine addiction head-on last September.
But Bruna, who started smoking in college, soon found it was much tougher than he had thought to kick his habit, which sometimes was up to a pack of cigarettes a day.
He dropped the cigarettes and started [...]

Wearing the nicotine patch before quitting increases success, study says

Friday, July 10th, 2009

Source: LA Times Blogs

Smokers who wear a nicotine patch for two weeks before they quit smoking are twice as likely to kick the habit as those who puton the patch on the day they quit, finds a new study, published online in the journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research.
Smokers, and the physicians who advise them, have always been wary of suggesting [...]