Archive for January 3rd, 2009

British Medical Journal - Bupropion for smokers

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009

Bupropion may not be as good as editorial implies
EDITOR–Britton and Jarvis give a surprisingly uncritical welcome to bupropion.[1] Although Jorenby et al did find that 30% of patients who took bupropion were still non-smokers after 12 months (point prevalence data), these volunteers must have been highly motivated as 12-15% of those who took the placebo successfully stopped smoking.[2] There are no studies showing that bupropi…