By admin on
Saturday, May 10, 2008 2:15 AM
"An updated clinical practice guideline released by the U.S. Public Health Service has identified new counseling and medication treatments that are effective for helping people quit smoking. A review of more than 8,700 research articles published between 1975 and 2007 found that there are now seven medications approved by the Food and Drug Administration as smoking cessation treatments that dramatically increase the success of quitting. The review also found that counseling by itself or especially in conjunction with medication can greatly increase a person's success in quitting. In particular, quitlines were found to be effective and can reach a large number of people; 1-800-QUIT-NOW, a national quitline, is an access number that connects people to their State-based quitline. It also provides broad access to cessation counseling for diverse populations and is easy for clinicians and patients to use."