Researcher Questions Efficacy of Nicotine Gum

OPEN MINDS The Behavioral Health & Social Service Industry Analyst Industry News Psychiatrist John R. Hughes, M.D., a researcher at the University of Vermont, has found that the usefulness of nicotine gum in helping people quit smoking is “either small or nonexistent’. Only about 10% of 210 smokers who received the nicotine gum and about 7% of those who received a placebo gum were not smoking a year after they started chewing the gum (a statistically insignificant difference), according to a report by Michael Waldholz that appeared in the March 3 issue of ‘The Wall Street Journal’. However, the . . .