Acupuncture? Nicotine patches? Telephone therapy? Antidepressants? Cognitive behavioural therapy?Which work? Which have no effect? Which are dangerous? Confused?Over 40 Cochrane reviews analyse the evidence.For example, one systematic review (CD000146) shows how nicotine patches can double the odds of successful quitting. [click link for full article]

Acupuncture? Nicotine patches? Telephone therapy? Antidepressants? Cognitive behavioural therapy?Which work? Which have no effect? Which are dangerous? Confused?Over 40 Cochrane reviews analyse the evidence.For example, one systematic review (CD000146) shows how nicotine patches can double the odds of successful quitting. [click link for full article]

Acupuncture? Nicotine patches? Telephone therapy? Antidepressants? Cognitive behavioural therapy?Which work? Which have no effect? Which are dangerous? Confused?Over 40 Cochrane reviews analyse the evidence.For example, one systematic review (CD000146) shows how nicotine patches can double the odds of successful quitting. [click link for full article]

* Alcoholics frequently smoke. * Many alcoholics in treatment continue to smoke. * New findings indicate that smoking may interfere with alcoholics’ neurocognitive recovery during their first six to nine months of alcohol abstinence. Alcoholics frequently smoke. Anywhere from 50 to 90 percent of individuals in North America who seek alcoholism treatment are also chronic smokers. [click link for full article]

* Alcoholics frequently smoke. * Many alcoholics in treatment continue to smoke. * New findings indicate that smoking may interfere with alcoholics’ neurocognitive recovery during their first six to nine months of alcohol abstinence. Alcoholics frequently smoke. Anywhere from 50 to 90 percent of individuals in North America who seek alcoholism treatment are also chronic smokers. [click link for full article]

* Alcoholics frequently smoke. * Many alcoholics in treatment continue to smoke. * New findings indicate that smoking may interfere with alcoholics’ neurocognitive recovery during their first six to nine months of alcohol abstinence. Alcoholics frequently smoke. Anywhere from 50 to 90 percent of individuals in North America who seek alcoholism treatment are also chronic smokers. [click link for full article]