What is the best way to use nicotine replacement therapy to quit smoking?
The Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Group has produced many reviews of the role of nicotine replacement therapy in smoking cessation and, in June 2023, they updated their review of different doses, durations and modes of delivery. Here ' s first author, Annika Theodoulou from the Centre for Evidence-based Medicine at the University of Oxford in the UK to tell us about the latest findings. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - August 11, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts

What is the best way to use nicotine replacement therapy to quit smoking?
Nicotine replacement therapy has been used to help people stop smoking for more than 20 years, and a large and growing body of research has tested it. To help cope with this, some of the related Cochrane Reviews have been divided up and in April 2019 the evidence on different doses, durations and modes of delivery was updated into a new review. Here ’s one of the authors, Samantha Chepkin from Cochrane UK to tell us what they found. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - October 17, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts

Is advice to cut down smoking wrong?
New NICE guidance says that smokers should be encouraged to cut down on the number of cigarettes they smoke, as well as trying to quit. In a head to head, published on bmj.com, Paul Aveyard, professor of behavioural medicine at the University of Oxford, says that reducing smoking is a worthwhile step towards cessation, but Gerard Hastings, professor of social marketing at Stirling and Open Universities, argues that the lifelong nicotine replacement therapy being recommended in support may benefit industry more than public health. Read the full head to head: http://www.bmj.com/content/348/bmj.g2787 (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - May 23, 2014 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts