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The National Health Service (NHS) in England is set to provide an improved stop smoking pill, varenicline, to tens of thousands of individuals seeking to quit cigarettes. According to NHS England, this daily tablet, administered over several months, is as effective as vapes and more effective than nicotine replacement options like gum or patches.

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A team of scientists, including a University of Massachusetts Amherst public health researcher, has conducted a major review of evidence and identified the three most effective strategies for quitting smoking: varenicline, cytisine, and nicotine e-cigarettes. The review, published in the journal Addiction on September 4, was led by the non-profit Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Group (CTAG) and authored by senior author Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, assistant professor of health policy and management at the UMass Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences, and lead author Jonathan Livingstone-Banks, a University of Oxford researcher in England. Read more