Maintain pressure on reforms to protect NHSMedication and counselling help teenagers stop smoking
US research conducted on 312 adolescents were randomly assigned to receive 150 mg or 300 mg of buproprion, or a placebo.
All of those participating received weekly 10-20 minute counselling sessions and were interviewed after 26 weeks to see if they had managed to give up.
After 36 weeks 10.1% of the bupropion group gave up, 3.1% the 150mg bupropion group gave up and 13.9% of the 300mg group were abstaining.
However abstinence rates were lower at the end of the trial than at 12 weeks. Report authors said: ‘These results are critically important because few effective treatment options are available for adolescent smokers who want to quit.’
Archives of Paediatric and Adolescent Medicine (2007) 161:1068-1074
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