New medicine helps quit smoking

On November 15, scientists claimed to have successfully tested a new drug to help quit smoking.

Many studies have been conducted in Europe within a year on about 2,000 smokers with Pfizer's new drug varenicline. As a result, the drug helps 22% of these people abstain from smoking.

Dr Serena Tonstad, a specialist in heart disease prevention at the University of Oslo, Norway, said the side effect of the drug was to cause nausea but moderate.

Varenicline works completely differently than chewing gum, nicotine patches and other drugs currently used to stop smoking. It 'binds' nicotine receptors in the brain - the cause of smoking.

T.VY ( According to AP )