Combined behavioral support, medication offers smokers best chance of quitting
Wednesday, October 8, 2014 - 23:31
in Health & Medicine
Numerous randomized clinical trials have shown the effectiveness of the two major forms of smoking cessation treatment -- behavioral support and medication -- in helping smokers quit. Researchers have now demonstrated that this approach can successfully translate to the "real world" and that a combination of the two treatments offers almost a threefold chance of success over attempts to quit without using a cessation aid.