What are the approved FDA tobacco cessation treatments?
The FDA has approved seven medicines for smoking cessation. There are a lot of smoking gimmicks out there, says Dr. Sullivan, “but only the following seven have been subjected to the rigors of well designed clinical trials and have been shown to be both safe and effective.” The approved tobacco cessation treatments are: Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT’s) – • nicotine polacrilix gum • nicotine inhaler • nicotine nasal spray • nicotine lozenge • nicotine patch • buproprion (non-nicotine medicine) • varenicline (non-nicotine medicine) Smoking kills Tobacco kills more than 400,000 people each year in America, and these are preventable deaths. Comprehensive coverage requires providing easy access to the seven cessation medications and three forms of counseling recommended to treat nicotine addiction by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). West Virginia West Virginia is one state where comprehensive coverage is lac
