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...smoking on campus at any given time isn't really feasible," says Joni Troester, director of the university's campus wellness program. Instead, the school helps those trying to kick the habit by offering smoking-cessation programs and providing reimbursement for nicotine patches, gum and prescription medications like Zyban...
Reporting this week in the Archives of General Psychiatry, scientists describe for the first time a set of genes, about 100 in all, that seem to predict how well a smoker will respond to two different types of quitting programs - nicotine replacement or bupropion (Zyban). Nicotine-replacement methods, including the patch, pill and gum, work by weaning the smoker off nicotine gradually, usually over a period of weeks or months. Bupropion, on the other hand, is an antidepressant, which does not contain nicotine; instead, it works to curb nicotine cravings by interfering with the reward circuit in the brain, where...
...urged the manufacturers of 10 popular antidepressants to issue new, more stringent warning labels. The drugs named in the advisory are Prozac, Zoloft, Wellbutrin, Zyban, Paxil, Celexa, Effexor, Serzone, Luvox and Remeron. Together these pills racked up sales of about $12 billion worldwide in 2002. Some experts believe that it was their very popularity that concerned the FDA. Many doctors, the agency apparently fears, are giving out the pills too freely, without adequate monitoring...
What a lot of smokers don't realize is that the most popular method of quitting--just stopping, a.k.a. going cold turkey--is the least effective. Studies show that getting intensive short-term counseling, taking drugs like Zyban (an antidepressant) or using one of the many nicotine aids (gum, patch, inhaler, nasal spray, lozenge) all double the chance of success. Preliminary results suggest that combining these methods will increase success rates even more...
...this was good news for the rapidly fattening bottom line of Direct Response Marketing, a tiny pharmaceutical firm in the British Channel Islands that trades in trendy pills at the website lifestyledrugs.com To his inventory of Viagra (for impotence), Propecia (for balding) and Zyban (to quit smoking), owner Tom O'Brien last week added the much hyped Xenical. Result: a tidal wave of U.S. Web surfers that overwhelmed his staff of four. "We're averaging about 60 to 70 orders an hour," O'Brien reports. "It's wiped...