A new study has shown that using the nicotine patch for a longer period of time, increases the likelihood that smokers will be able to kick the habit and reduces the risk that they’ll start smoking again.
In this study adults smoked 10 or more cigarettes per day for one year. The smokers who used nicotine patches for the entire study, were about twice as likely to quit smoking as those who used nicotine patches for eight weeks and then received placebo patches for the remainder of the study. Standard therapy, as recommended by manufacturers is eight weeks.
After one year, participants in the extended-therapy group who relapsed, were more likely (29.1 percent) to report periods of smoking abstinence lasting more than seven days in a row during the year than those in the standard-therapy group (21.3 percent).
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