Nicorette, Nicotine Gum News

PITTSBURGH GlaxoSmithKline plans to launch the first recently FDA-approved innovation into the smoking cessation category in seven years.

Lamenting his first teenage cigarette, President Barack Obama ruefully admitted on Monday that he's spent his adult life fighting the habit.

With the signing of some of the strongest anti-tobacco legislation ever this week, the media has taken a keen interest - some say too keen an interest - in President Obama's own history with cigarettes.

Do they make nicorette milk? Apparently the youngest smoker in the world is two-year-old Tong Liangliang from Tianjin, who has a pack-a-day habit.

I'm reading William Saletan unpack the latest antismoking bill , and although I don't have a great framework for evaluating drug regulation, it seems to make a lot of sense.

Should anyone care if the president still sneaks the occasional cigarette, despite his promise to quit? Cigarettes: Obama admits sometimes he can't resist President Obama has come clean, said Lynn Sweet in Politics Daily .

President Obama signed the anti-tobacco bill today. He mentioned his own struggle with smoking.

Lamenting his first teenage cigarette, President Barack Obama ruefully admitted on Monday that he's spent his adult life fighting the habit.

In an effort to reduce costs and improve the health of residents, Los Angeles County is giving away a two-week supply of expensive nicotine replacement therapy to encourage people to quit smoking.

As President Obama hailed new legislation to regulate tobacco Friday, his spokesman ducked a question on whether Obama still sneaks a cigarette now and then.

The county is giving away 30,000 nicotine cessation kits to help smokers make the break from tobacco.

Even as US President Barack Obama congratulated Congress for passing tough new tobacco regulations, the White House admitted on June 12 that the commander-in-chief himself was still struggling to do away with his smoking addiction.

Asked if the president still smoked, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Obama has "a struggle with nicotine addiction" every day.

The White House acknowledged Friday President Obama is still struggling to break his smoking addiction even as the president congratulated Congress for passing tough new regulations that puts tobacco under control of the Food and Drug Administration for the first time.

President Barack Obama said in February 2007 that he had quit smoking and that he was, instead, chewing Nicorette gum.

Starting treatment with nicotine gum 4 weeks before one's target quit date does not improve smoking abstinence, according to an Archives of Internal Medicine study.

Starting nicotine gum, while reducing the number of cigarettes smoked by half at 4 weeks before a target date for quitting smoking is no more effective than beginning nicotine replacement on the quit date without tapering off beforehand, according to a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Background New ways of improving the efficacy of nicotine therapy need to be explored.

GlaxoSmithKline has shaken up the advertising rosters for several of its consumer brands.

It turns out there is an upside to higher taxes; it may be the key to getting people to quit smoking.