LONDON, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Cytisine, a nicotine substitute, more than triples a person's chances of quitting smoking for at least a year, British and Polish researchers say.
Lead author Robert West, director of tobacco studies at the Cancer Research UK Health Behavior Research Center at University College London said co-investigator Witold Zatonski, a doctor at the Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology in Warsaw, Poland, had been telling him for years that "there was this pill available in Eastern Europe that he believed was effective and cost next to nothing," to help smokers quit.