NRT is smokin’!
March 13, 2012
ONE year after the listing of
nicotine patches on the
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme,
NRT use has increased significantly,
according to GlaxoSmithKline.
The Federal Government
approved the listing of transdermal
nicotine patches from 01 February
2011, and since that time the rise in
NRT use has been marked, with
estimates pipping that the amount
of NRT scripts that will be filled by
July this year will reach over
100,000.
Speaking about the increased
uptake of NRT’s Tobacco Treatment
Specialist Dr Colin Mendelsohn said
that “many thousands of additional
successful quit attempts have been
triggered by the government
subsidy on nicotine patches”.
In backing up NRT’s credentials
GSK cited a University of Sydney
report which estimated that
improved access to NRTs (via OTC
availability) in the decade to 2007
led to over 68,000 lives being saved
in Australia over that ten year
period.
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