The health departments spokesperson, Foster Mohale, says that bupropion and varenicline have been considered for review by the committee, but adds that their widespread use would always need to be recommended as part of an established smoking cessation programme. The chairperson of the school of health systems and public health at the University of Pretoria, Olalekan Ayo-Yusuf, says pills to help someone to stop smoking will only be prescribed if they are moderately to highly dependent on nicotine
In the past, in addition to public health campaigns to help and support quitting, multimodal interventions have been tried, including combinations of counselling, printed information, helpline referrals and nicotine replacement therapy
Lungs work better on marijuana. That would be totally inaccurate. Authors say there weren't enough heavy users (those who smoked two or more joints a day) among those in the study to draw firm conclusions on that group
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