The Washington Post and USA Today posts articles on nicotine replacement therapy’s ineffectiveness in a 5 year study

The Washington Post and USA Today posted articles on a 5 year study performed by Harvard School of Public Health’s Center for Global Tobacco Control in Boston.  The lead author Hillel Alpert said “Even though other well-controlled studies have shown that nicotine replacement therapy can be effective, our study looked at real-world use over the long-term… And in the real world, cigarettes are simply a very powerful addiction. And NRT is apparently not an effective replacement for that addiction.”

The study was performed on 787 adult smokers in Massachusetts who had recently quit smoking.  They were interviewed 3 times at 2 year intervals.  They smokers ranged from light smokers to heavy smokers.  Based on the tests, those who used the nicotine replacement therapy relapsed back to smoking just as much as those who quit without them.

Read the Washington Post Article here.

Read the USA Today post here.