NICE: GPs 'should prescribe nicotine replacement products to smokers'

NICE: GPs 'should prescribe nicotine replacement products to smokers'

It includes suggestions for health advisers to offer nicotine reduction therapy on prescription to people who smoke, despite not committing to a set date for when they will quit smoking, or even if they do not currently want to quit. Under proposals …
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Guidance On Hard Core Smokers' Quit Options, England

If you can't quit smoking in one go, what are your options? In England it appears that hard core smokers may be offered an alternative route that starts with “harm reduction” rather than quitting in one step. A draft guidance based on this approach was …
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