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Smokers who are serious about kicking butts may be better off relying on old-fashioned willpower, instead of pricey, new-fangled patches, pills and gums.
The vast majority of ex-smokers stop on their own and not with nicotine replacement therapies, according to research reported in the Daily Mail.
A review of hundreds of studies on smoking cessation not only found that the majority of successful ex-smokers quit on their own, but that studies praising the virtues of patches, gums and pills are at least twice as likely to have been funded by drug companies, according to Australian researchers.
Sydney University researchers analyzed more than 500 recent studies which revealed that between two-thirds to three-quarters of ex-smokers stopped without the aid of nicotine replacement therapies. Some 51 percent of drug company-funded trials said these therapies, such as gums and patches, were of "significant" benefit. But only 22 percent of independent studies reached the same conclusion.
