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| Web Pages |
| Products Offered for Smoking Cessation on the World Wide Web |
| A review of quit-smoking products found on the Web finds that most have no science behind them and may even be harmful. |
| It's Quittin' Time: Smokers Need Not Rely on Willpower Alone |
| FDA information on the nicotine patch, gum, nasal spray, and inhaler, and Zyban. |
| FDA: No Over-The-Counter Smoking Deterrent Works |
| This includes pills, tablets, lozenges and chewing gum-type products sold under various names such as Cigarrest, Bantron, Tabmint, Nikoban and others. However, some prescription products have been found safe and effective as smoking cessation aids. Note: at the time this was written, the gum and patch were prescription products. |
| It's Quittin' Time: Smokers Need Not Rely on Willpower Alone |
| Article from FDA Consumer magazine, updated to Feb 1998. Reviews quit smoking aids and quitting itself. |
| Acupuncture for Smoking Cessation |
| Article in scientific journal. Examines whether acupuncture is effective for quitting smoking. Conclusion is it does no better than placebo. |
| Quitting Smoking: A Consumer's Guide |
| CDC, FDA information from GSA; covers which products (as of 1994) had been found safe and effective and which had not. |
| Is Bupropion an Effective Treatment for Smoking Cessation? |
| Slide presentation evaluates effectivess measurements for Bupropion ("Zyban"), the nicotine patch, the gum; also presents general information on smoking, addiction, and quitting. |
| Smokers Advised to Combine Therapies |
| The combined use of nicotine patches and sprays is the best way to quit smoking, researchers find. |
| Effectiveness of Hypnosis for Quitting Smoking |
| Researchers at Ohio State University reviewed five dozen studies and conclude that smokers who are hopeful that hypnosis will help them kick their habit need to temper their expectations. |
| Zyban for Smoking Cessation |
| Briefly reviews the scientific literature on safety and effectiveness. |
| Prescriptions to Help Smokers Quit |
| Reprint from FDA Consumer magazine, June 1994, written by a geneticist and author of a biology text. Discusses the pros and cons of the patch and gum. |
| FTC finds Ruta Lee's Vitamin C and stop-smoking ads were deceptive |
| Television personality Ruta Lee agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that advertising claims she made for three vitamin sprays and a stop-smoking spray were unsubstantiated. |
| Kicking Butts in the Twenty-First Century |
| 50 page ACSH pamphlet reports the track record of nioctine patch, gum, inhaler, lozenge, spray; buproprion; counseling, alone and in combination with drug therapies; support groups; telephone counseling; self-help materials and programs; alternative approaches including acupuncture, hypnosis, and herbal remedies. |
| The Habitrol Stop Smoking System |
| Vendor of "the patch". Focus is on a smoking cessation program that combines development of a personalized program with behavioral modification, nicotine replacement therapy and on-line support. In English and French language. |