Cytisine was found effective for cessation…
Cytisine was found effective for cessation in a randomized controlled trial of 869 smokers Pastorino U, Ladisa V, Trussardo S, et al. Cytisine therapy improved smoking cessation in the randomized SMILE lung cancer screening trial. Journal of Thoracic Oncology. 28 Jul 2022. DOI: “At the 12-month follow-up, the quit rate was 32.1% (151 participants) in the intervention arm and 7.3% (29 participants) in the control arm… The efficacy and safety observed in the SMILE RCT indicate that cytisine, a very low-cost medication, is a useful treatment option for smoking cessation….”
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtho.2022.07.007
- https://www.jto.org/article/S1556-0864(22)00346-X/fulltext
Stephen Hamann
