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.

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