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A new drug that aids in kicking the smoking habit has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The drug Chantix (varenicline) quadruples a smoker’s odds of quitting the habit, and is twice as effective as an existent smoking-cessation drug, Zyban (bupropion), reported health portal HealthDay News.
According to scientists, Chantix will also help smokers stay away from smoking months after quitting.
It greatly decreases smokers’ likelihood of relapse in the first six months after quitting, said a study conducted recently.
The result is encouraging, say experts, as smokers have little that’s pharmacologically useful in helping them to quit.
However, they warn that much of the hype around the new drug may be unwarranted, because Chantix remains a far-from-perfect means of quitting smoking.
Whenever a new smoking-cessation aid gets FDA approval, "there is often unbridled enthusiasm regarding the potential to solve the problems associated with smoking," said Robert Klesges at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in the journal Memphis.
While Chantix does appear to perform better than either a placebo or Zyban, high rates of both side effects and treatment failure mean the drug "definitely is not a panacea for smoking cessation," added Klesges.
The results of these trials are promising, he said, but pointed out that nicotine addiction remains an impossibly tough challenge for most smokers.
The resilience of the smoking habit against all interventions suggests that "patients currently cannot and probably never will be able to ’take a pill’ that will make them stop smoking.
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