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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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