Researchers: Stop smoking pills can help stop electronic cigarettes

Researchers in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reported that the medicine “varinicin” to quit smoking, usually used by tobacco smokers, is safe and beneficial for adolescents and young men who are addicted to electronic smoke. In their 12 -week experience, he received 261 smokers for electronic cigarettes, between the ages of 16 and 25, which is electronic smoke, the drug “varinicin”, which is sold by “Pfizer” under the brand name “shanstex” or a false drug, reduced or cease. They also received support for weekly psychological counseling and text messages. They all smoked nicotine daily or almost daily, but they did not smoke tobacco regularly. The last month of the treatment stopped smoking and the rate of continuous abstinence at smoke in the last month of treatment reached 51% with varinizin, compared to 14% with imaginary therapy. After 6 months, that is, about two months after they stopped the treatment, the rate of smoke that withheld was 28% in the drug group compared to 7% among those who received imaginary treatment. The side effect rate was the same in the two groups. The researchers wrote: “As far as we know, it is the first experience of medicine treatment that has stopped smoking nicotine among young people.” The researchers added that “most of the young addicted nicotine with electronic smoke did not regularly smoke tobacco and that they do not want to stop electronic smoke.” They pointed out that this reflects the importance of these results, which shows that there is an available medicine treatment, effective and some side effects to stop electronic smoke in this category. In addition to these pharmaceutical interventions to help smokers start, the advice that specialists for the same purpose is directly, including: developing a plan to quit smoking; Most people have great success in stopping smoking by setting a date to quit smoking, and suddenly stops at this date. The “Mayo Clinic” indicates that there are electronic instruments that can help develop a plan to stop and implement smoke, and these programs provide chat services, SMSs or mobile applications to provide support and adaptation strategies, which are the tools that helped people quit.