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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Mar 19.
Published in final edited form as: Annu Rev Public Health. 2012 Jan 3;33:279–305. doi: 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-031811-124553

Table 1.

Interventions for smoking cessation

Pharmacotherapies Behavioral therapies

First-line drugs Second-line drugs Other drugs not FDA
approved for smoking
cessation

Nicotine-based medications
  • Nicotine gum

  • Nicotine patch

  • Nicotine inhaler

  • Nicotine nasal spray

  • Nicotine sublingual lozenge

Clonidine Fluoxetine Partner support
Nortriptyline Sertraline Self-help
Paroxetine Psychological counseling
  • Telephone counseling

  • Professional advice

  • Intensive counseling

Naltrexone
Rimonabant
Doxepin
Nonnicotine-based medications
  • Antagonist (e.g., bupropion)

  • Partial agonist (e.g., varenicline)

Moclobemide
Selegiline