Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The 12-week varenicline treatment also involved weekly behavioral counseling and a text message intervention ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Minimal behavioral support included a self-guided cessation booklet and a counseling session. More adults ...

Researchers have identified variants in a gene that influences the likelihood of smokers developing abnormal dreams while taking a medication to help them quit. The study is published in the journal ...

The trend in varenicline use has changed sharply since the treatment’s supply disruption in July 2021, say researchers, who found that its use had fallen by almost 70% per year to December 2022. This ...

Tobacco is associated with immediate and long-term adverse clinical outcomes, including morbidity and mortality. Although Pfizer’s Chantix (varenicline tartrate) showed prominent efficacy for dry eye ...

It beat alcohol for the first time,” says Dr. A. Eden Evins, director of the Center for Addiction Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. “Kids are initiating it at younger and younger ages.” It’s ...

Varenicline and nicotine-containing electronic cigarettes are both effective in helping individuals in quitting smoking conventional cigarettes HealthDay News — Varenicline and nicotine-containing ...

Increasing the dosages of varenicline (Chantix) or combined nicotine replacement therapy (CNRT), or switching from CNRT to varenicline, improved abstinence from smoking, a randomized clinical trial ...

A new randomized controlled trial has found promising evidence that the smoking cessation medication varenicline (Chantix/Champix) can help people with cannabis use disorder (CUD) to reduce cannabis ...

Many teens who vape want to quit. A recent clinical trial suggests that a drug used to stop smoking can help. In the last four weeks of a 12-week trial, 51 percent of the 88 teens and young adults ...