2023-11-07 16:52:55
Smokers now have a second medication with which they can quit smoking in just 25 days and which the Ministry of Health will finance once a year for consumers of at least 10 cigarettes a day who have made an attempt to quit the habit in the last year.
This new medication to stop smoking has been launched by Adamed Laboratorios and presented at a press conference by Dr. Carlos Andrés Jiménez-Ruiz, pulmonologist expert in smoking; Dr. Raúl de Simón, National Coordinator of the SEMERGEN Tobacco Working Group, together with Marcin Nowak, General Director of Adamed, and Víctor M. Millán, Director of the Cardiovascular Business Unit of these laboratories.
The commercial name of the drug is RECIGARum, whose active ingredient is cytisinicline, and is indicated in adults for the treatment of smoking dependence and the reduction of nicotine craving in smokers who are willing to quit smoking, which is the “ first step” to achieve it.
With a price of 111 euros without financing, patients will be able to benefit from coverage of between 40 and 60% of the price of the medicine, but as long as they meet certain requirements.
“We are leaving many smokers out of financing,” lamented Dr. De Simón, pointing out that the conditions are set by the Ministry of Health.
To begin with, they will have to be included in a support program (individual and/or group) for smoking cessation that is implemented in the autonomous community, and they must have that express motivation to quit smoking that can be verified with an attempt in the last anus.
They must be consumers of 10 cigarettes or more per day, and only one attempt per year will be covered; Each prescription will be made for a container, which consists of 100 tablets, which is equivalent to 25 days of treatment.
The main novelty with respect to Todacitan, the other drug paid for by the National Health System, is that RECIGARum is presented in the form of a calendared blister to follow the dosage optimally, which facilitates adherence.
In the presentation of this drug, the Dr. Raúl de Simón has highlighted: “Without a doubt, cytisinicline is supported by scientific evidence accumulated after more than 30 years of experience of use in other countries.”
Tobacco, main cause of death
According to the WHO, tobacco is the leading cause of death, disease and impoverishment in the world.
It kills more than 8 million people a year, of which 1.3 million are non-smokers exposed to smoke.
In Spain, 61,000 people die as a result of smoking each year, which is approximately one death every 9 minutes.
Dr. Carlos Jiménez He pointed out in the presentation of this new medicine that “smoking is an addictive and chronic disease; Although 70% of smokers want to quit, only 20% go to a health professional asking for help to achieve this.”
The experience of quitting smoking in Spain
Adamed has also presented a study on “The experience of quitting smoking in Spain”, carried out on 2,000 people nationwide (1,200 smokers and 800 ex-smokers), whose most notable data have revealed that:
90% of smokers want to quit smoking: 72% have proposed it, but 56% have not known how. He 84% of smokers smoke daily and the 5.3% more than 20 cigarettes per day (that is, more than one pack of tobacco daily). He 59.5% of smokers quit tobacco at least once, but relapsed. And the 9.2% have lost count of the number of times they have tried it. Among the ex-smokers surveyed, they quit tobacco an average of 2 times. He 12% made countless attempts until they succeeded.
A third of ex-smokers admit that they will smoke again. Among the reasons for quitting smoking, there was medical advice is more important among former smokers (20.3%) than for current smokers (16.5%). For current smokers who quit in the past, The most difficult thing (56%) was fighting the intense desire to smoke and irritability and anxiety.
He 41% of ex-smokers who quit tobacco with prescription medications, They have not smoked again for more than 2 years.
Most former smokers who took prescribed drugs (59%) recommend smokers see a doctor to quit smoking.
The first piece of advice: seek medical help
In addition to this new smoking cessation medication, with the aim of raise awareness in society of the importance of quitting tobacco and go to health professionals to find a way to quit, Adamed Laboratories has launched the campaignSend tobacco for tobacco… and don’t let it come back”.
This campaign, aimed at the general population and health professionals, aims to The objective is to raise awareness in society about the addictive and chronic disease that is smoking and about the importance of going to the health professional to treat it..
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