Background Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) aims to temporarily replace much of the
nicotine from cigarettes to reduce motivation to smoke and nicotine withdrawal symptoms …

Background Healthcare professionals frequently advise people to improve their health by
stopping smoking. Such advice may be brief, or part of more intensive interventions …

Smoking cessation treatment is now integrated into many health‐care systems and a major
research effort is under way to improve current success rates. Until now results from …

A workgroup formed by the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco reviewed the
literature on abstinence measures used in trials of smoking cessation interventions. We …

Aims This study aimed to assess the effects of opportunistic brief physician advice to stop
smoking and offer of assistance on incidence of attempts to stop and quit success in …

Outcome measures for smoking cessation are reviewed and evaluated, including 3 self-
report and 3 biochemical-validation measures. Point prevalence reflects the percentage of …

Meta-analysis was used to examine 108 intervention comparisons in 39 controlled smoking
cessation trials. Type of intervention (face-to-face advice being better than all others), type of …

Predictors of successful smoking cessation were examined in a randomized controlled trial
of 450 smokers who received an intervention by their general practitioner (GP). Pretreatment …

Background Smoking remains the leading preventable cause of premature deaths. Several
pharmacological interventions now exist to aid smokers in cessation. These include Nicotine …

Nicotine is the primary reason why people consume tobacco products and it may contribute
to causation of tobacco-related diseases. This chapter reviews the human pharmacology of …