While it was once hoped that cytisine would become the ‘aspirin of smoking cessation drugs’, it is shockingly underused ...

Since January 2024, only 0.2% of people trying to quit smoking have used it (the same proportion that used it in 2018, when ...

In 2021, varenicline, the most effective single drug for quitting smoking, was withdrawn from the market in the UK because impurities were found at ...

These medications could save thousands of lives – but doctors aren’t prescribing them While it was once hoped that cytisine would become the ‘aspirin of smoking cessation drugs’, it is ...

Champix and another oral smoking cessation therapy, GSK's Zyban (bupropion), saw restrictions placed on their use after they were found to contain potentially toxic contaminants.

Writing in The Conversation, Professor Lion Shahab and Dr Dimitra Kale (UCL Behavioural Science and Health) ask why uptake of varenicline and cytisine has been so low.

Ion channels remain an under-exploited drug target class owing to the low-throughput nature of patch-clamp electrophysiology. In this Review, Dunlop and colleagues evaluate automated ...