cytisine for smoking cessation
The NY Times had a recent article on cytisine as an effective treatment for smoking cessation: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/02/well/quit-smoking-cytisine.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb they make a few well-substantiated points: -- it is pretty easy to stop smoking, the issue is maintaing abstinence (and 47% of those who try to quit are smoking 1 year later: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3723776/ ) -- cytisine was developed as a pill in Bulgaria in 1964 and has been used in Eastern Europe for 50 years for smoking cessation -- cytisine was approved in Canada in 2017 and Britain last year for smoking cessation -- there have been many scientific articles showing a great effect of cytisine in smoking cessation (several noted below), with a 2014 editorial by Nancy Rigotti referring to cytisine as “a tobacco treatment hiding in plain sight”: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe1412313 Commentary: -- cigarette smok