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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,
Army Times
added 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.
Montgomery (AL) Advertiser
added 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
MedPage Today
added 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
JAMA Psychiatry (Archives of General Psychiatry)
added 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
Medical Xpress (PhysOrg.com)
added 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
ScienceNordic.com (dk)
added 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
Wired
added 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.
Nicotine and Tobacco Research
added 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.
Thomson Reuters
added 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
Forbes
added Feb 27, 2013 11:29
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