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2001 MAY 24 - (NewsRx Network) -- A review of numerous research studies focusing on smoking cessation has concluded that while women may suffer greater relative risks of smoking related diseases than do men, they tend to have less success than men in quitting smoking.
Dr. Kenneth A. Perkins from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pennsylvania, who conducted the review, offers several reasons for this disparity in a paper published in the May 2001 issue of CNS Drugs:
* Nicotine replacement therapy may not be as effective for women.
* Women smokers are more fearful than men of gaining a lot of weight if they quit.
* Medications to aid smoking cessation are not currently recommended for pregnant women.
* A woman's menstrual cycle affects tobacco withdrawal symptoms, and responses to anti-smoking drugs may vary by cycle phase.
* Husbands may provide less effective Support to women who are trying to quit smoking than wives give to husbands.