New Cochrane Review Investigates the Effectiveness of Nicotine Replacement Therapy

New evidence published in the Cochrane Library provides high-quality evidence that people who use a combination of nicotine replacement therapies (a patch plus a short-acting form, such as gum or lozenge) are more likely to successfully quit smoking than people who use a single form of the medicine. When people quit smoking, they often set a quit day, which is the day when they plan to stop smoking entirely. There is evidence that starting to use NRT before a quit day may help more people to quit than starting using NRT on the quit day itself, but more evidence is needed to strengthen this conclusion. Read more here.

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