Zyban

Combo Drug Therapies Best for Helping Smokers Quit

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

Source: Reuters Health
Nearly one in five smokers offered help in kicking the habit while visiting their doctor’s office for a check-up will make a serious attempt to quit, a new study shows.
And in this “real world” setting, the most effective smoking cessation drug therapy was a combination of bupropion SR (a sustained-release form of Zyban) [...]

Smoking Cessation Harder For Women Than Men

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

Women appear to have a tougher time quitting smoking than men, according to researchers at Women’s Health Research at Yale.
While the percentage of men nationally who have given up cigarettes between 1965 and 2006 was 54.5 percent, the rate of decline among women was less steep, at 47.5 percent.
Consequently, the gap in the percentages of [...]