Thursday, May 17, 2007

Antidepressants for smoking cessation

(Disponible en anglais seulement.)
Purpose of this review was to assess the effects of antidepressant medications in aiding smoking cessation. Medications reviewed include bupropion, doxepin, fluoxetine, imipramine, moclobemide, nortriptyline, paroxetine, sertraline, tryptophan and venlafaxine.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD000031.pub3

Comment: Trials of burpropion and notriptyline, two medications used to treat depression, are shown to double quit rates of smokers and are similar to that of a nicotine replacement.