Efficacy, safety and tolerability of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for smoking cessation in lung cancer: a preliminary report

Background: Smoking cessation and relapse prevention represent an important opportunity to improve cancer survival rates, reduce the risk of cancer treatment complications, and improve quality of life.. Unfortunately, about half of cancer patients continue to smoke despite smoking being a known and often reversible cause of premature death.. We have previously shown that repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) decreases cue craving, reduces cigarette consumption and increases quit rate in nicotine dependent smokers.
Source: BRAIN STIMULATION: Basic, Translational, and Clinical Research in Neuromodulation - Category: Neurology Authors: Source Type: research