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Surprising Findings – Could Smoking Cessation Drugs Reduce Alcohol Consumption?

Man Smoking Cigarette Drinking Alcohol

The research found that whether participants were given nicotine replacement treatment, varenicline, or cytisine, their alcohol intake dropped after three months. A new study investigates three smoking cessation drugs. Matthew Freiberg, MD, MSc, a study principal investigator, Dorothy and Laurence Grossman Chair in Cardiology and professor of Medicine at VUMC. Credit: Vanderbilt University Medical Center A clinical trial to see whether three established smoking cessation treatments might also decrease alcohol use showed no differences between the medications, although rates of behavior change for both alcohol consumption and […]

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