Plant-Based Smoking Cessation Alternative Cytisine ‘Likely’ To Help Quitters

 
• By David Ridley

“Moderate-certainty evidence” shows that low-cost smoking cessation therapy cytisine “probably” helps more people to quit smoking than a placebo and “low-certainty evidence” suggests that the natural alternative may also help more people to quit than using a nicotine replacement monotherapy, finds a recently published Cochrane Review.

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Naturally-derived smoking cessation alternative cytisine is “likely” to help more people to quit smoking than if they were to receive no medical help, says a recently published Cochrane Review.

Currently available OTC in several countries in central and eastern Europe, as well as Canada, cytisine may even help more people quit than using one nicotine

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