The IntelliQuit mobile app is able to quantify the consumption of nicotine and nicotine metabolites, which allows a clinician to titrate a patient’s nicotine replacement therapy.
Successful smoking cessation involves a 2-pronged approach, since there are 2 components to smoking – physiological and behavioral, according to Nervana Elkhadragy, PharmD, MS, TTS, of Purdue University, College of Pharmacy, Indianapolis.
Although cigarette taxes were supposedly implemented to encourage smokers to quit, they can have a disproportionate effect on people of low-income status.
For adults without a recent history of depression, use of varenicline for smoking cessation does not appear to be associated with an increased risk for CV or neuropsychiatric hospitalizations when compared with NR
Organizations including the CDC and FDA have been investigating the nationwide outbreak of e-cigarette or vaping product use–associated lung injury since August 2019.
