Nicotine Replacement Therapy as a Maintenance Treatment
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Nicotine-replacement therapy: A proven treatment for smoking cessation
Smoking is a major cause of cardiovascular diseases, respiratory diseases and cancer. Despite the high prevalence of smokers worldwide, smokers are often neglected and not offered effective assistance with quitting their habits. In order to overcome this public health burden, effective treatment is needed to help smokers stop smoking. Among the pharmacological treatments available, nicotine-rep...
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عنوان ژورنال: JAMA
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0098-7484
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2015.7460