February 5, 2010 Long-Term Nicotine Patch Use Improves Quit Rate, But Effects Don't Last

Smokers who wore nicotine patches for six months were twice as likely to quit as those who unknowingly received placebos after wearing real patches for two months, according to a new study.

However, smoking rates were the same among both groups a year after the study began, Reuters reported Feb. 1.

Study author Caryn Lerman of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and colleagues found that the outcomes for long-term patch use with similar to those found among patients taking the medications Chantix or Zyban. Lerman said the findings suggest that "we may need to reconsider our guidelines about the length of treatment and consider, at least for some smokers, longer-term therapy."

The study tracked 568 daily smokers. It was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.



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Quitting Smoking Doubles Survival in Early Stage Lung Cancer

'Dramatic' results show that it's never too late to kick the habit, experts say

THURSDAY, Jan. 21 (HealthDay News) -- Quitting smoking after a diagnosis of early stage lung cancer doubles the odds that a patient will live another five years, a new study finds.

"The results are quite dramatic. I don't think anybody would have expected such a dramatic difference. It's incredible," said Dr. Norman Edelman, chief medical officer for the American Lung Association. "The important caveat is that this is early lung cancer."

Early stage lung malignancies can have cure rates of 50 percent to 60 percent, Edelman noted. The tragedy is that very few lung cancers (perhaps 20 percent, the authors stated) are diagnosed at this early stage.

The new findings are published in the Jan. 21 online edition of BMJ.

According to an accompanying journal editorial, fewer than one-third of all patients with lung cancer are still alive just one year after diagnosis.

Of course, the best way to prevent lung cancer is to never smoke, or to quit if you do smoke. People who quit smoking have a dramatically lower incidence of being diagnosed with lung cancer over the life span, experts note.



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