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Surprising Findings – Could Smoking Cessation Drugs Reduce Alcohol Consumption?

Man Smoking Cigarette Drinking Alcohol

[ad_1] 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 […]

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Smokers Who Quit Before Age 45 Significantly Reduce Risk of Lung Cancer

[ad_1] Quitting smoking between ages 45-54 still reduces the risk of cancer by a significant 78%, while doing so between ages 55-64 cuts it by 56%. Titled, “Association of Smoking Initiation and Cessation Across the Life Course and Cancer Mortality Prospective Study of 410 000 US Adults,” the study of over 400,000 Americans, found that smokers are three times more likely to die of a tobacco-related cancer than nonsmokers. However, reported the researchers, quitting by age 45 reduces this risk by 89%, while for those who quit before […]

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