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Tricare now covers smoking cessation drugs
Medications that help smokers kick the habit are now available through Tricare’s home delivery pharmacy system. Pharmaceuticals such as varencline, or Chantix, and buproprion, or Zyban, as well as various nicotine replacement therapies such as patches,
Apr 2, 2013
Army Times
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Apr 3, 2013 13:36
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[Alabama] Smoking-cessation drugs available by mail
Smoking cessation drugs now are available at no charge through the TRICARE Mail Order Program for service members, military family members and retirees under age 65 who want to kick this unhealthy habit.
Mar 31, 2013
Montgomery (AL) Advertiser
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Mar 31, 2013 14:31
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Stop-Smoking Drugs Not Equal in Real Life
* Varenicline (Chantix) may hold some longer-term advantages for smoking cessation compared with bupropion (Zyban, others). * Note that adverse event rates were similar overall among the groups without any significant differences in any of the psychiatr
Mar 27, 2013
MedPage Today
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Mar 28, 2013 09:22
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Effects of Varenicline and Bupropion Sustained-Release Use Plus Intensive Smoking Cessation Counseling on Prolonged Abstinence From Smoking and on Depression, Negative Affect, and Other Symptoms of Nicotine WithdrawalVarenicline and Bupropion and Nicotine
In a community sample, varenicline exerts a robust and favorable effect on smoking cessation relative to placebo and may have a favorable (suppressive) effect on symptoms of depression and other affective measures, with no clear unfavorable effect on neur
Mar 27, 2013
JAMA Psychiatry (Archives of General Psychiatry)
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Mar 27, 2013 16:36
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Varenicline reduces depressive mood, craving and reward value of cigarettes when smokers attempt to quit, study reports
Smokers have a higher probability of quitting smoking and a better overall cessation experience when taking varenicline compared to bupropion and to placebo – unmedicated assisted smoking cessation –according to a study published in the journal JAMA
Mar 27, 2013
Medical Xpress (PhysOrg.com)
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Mar 27, 2013 16:33
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Surviving pandemics with tobacco plants
Surviving pandemics with tobacco plants March 27, 2013 - 05:00 Article from University of Bergen So far, the tobacco plant has done more harm than good. But in the future, the plant may be used as part of a life-saving vaccine. Keywords: Epidemics, Pl
Mar 27, 2013
ScienceNordic.com (dk)
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Mar 27, 2013 10:24
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Fight Flu With Tobacco
Medicago, a Canadian pharmaceutical company, is testing a new idea: Coax tobacco plants into expressing the proteins to make vaccines. Last year Darpa challenged the firm to make 10 million doses in a month. Medicago succeeded, proving it can respond quic
Mar 18, 2013
Wired
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Mar 19, 2013 03:26
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Niccine®, a Nicotine Vaccine, for Relapse Prevention: A Phase II, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Multicenter Clinical Trial
Conclusions: This nicotine vaccine appeared well tolerated but did not influence trajectories of relapse possibly because of insufficient antibody levels or lack of efficacy of the vaccine concept for relapse prevention.
Mar 7, 2013
Nicotine and Tobacco Research
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Mar 9, 2013 22:00
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Pfizer settles suits over anti-smoking drug for $273 mln
Pfizer Inc has agreed to settle the majority of lawsuits alleging its smoking cessation drug, Chantix, caused suicide and other injuries, the company said in its annual report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Mar 5, 2013
Thomson Reuters
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Mar 5, 2013 16:05
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Nicotine Vaccine May Help You Quit Smoking
The nicotine vaccine (NicVAX), currently under development by Nabi Biopharmaceuticals, is a chemical derivative of nicotine that is linked to a protein that induces an immune response. The nicotine-antibody complexes are structurally too large to cross th
Feb 26, 2013
Forbes
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Feb 27, 2013 11:29