More than 60 percent of initial participants in a UW-Madison smoking cessation study had quit smoking at the end of eight weeks of treatment, study coordinators announced Tuesday.
About 800 people have been enrolled in the study, which is comparing five methods of treatment: a nicotine patch and the drug Zyban, each with and without a nicotine lozenge, and the lozenge alone.
The study is recruiting more than 1,500 participants from Madison and Milwaukee. For more information, call 877-363-2447 or visit www.endcigs.com.