Zapping the urge to smoke: brain stimulation trial offers new hope for quitting

NCT ID NCT02812810

Summary

This small, completed study tested a new approach to help heavy smokers quit. It combined standard nicotine patches with a gentle, non-invasive brain stimulation technique called rTMS. The goal was to see if stimulating a specific brain area could reduce cravings in people who had failed to quit multiple times before.

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Contacts and locations

Locations

  • Centre Hospitalier Universitaire

    Dijon, 21079, France

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