Varenicline helps smokers with stably treated depression

Dr. Vera DePalo

Dr. Vera DePalo, FCCP, comments: Smoking is a habit that contributes to several disease states and many strategies are employed to help with smoking cessation. Practitioners continue to search for the intervention that can aid the patient in success. As with all pharmacologic therapies,the prescriber considers the unintended side effects.
This industry-funded trial may be helpful to the practitioner's understanding of the possible options in non-psychiatrically ill smokers with a history of depression.