Canada Releases First Smoking Cessation Guideline for Adults

published on August 26, 2025 by Marilynn Larkin in Medscape

The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care has released practical guidance, along with a menu of options, to help adults quit smoking tobacco.

The guideline includes evidence-based behavioral and drug therapies — and for the first time, a natural health product, cytisine — that can be tailored and combined to personalize treatment.

“There is a dizzying array of options for smokers who are considering quitting tobacco,” guideline co-author Eddy Lang, MD, head of emergency medicine at the University of Calgary, Calgary, told Medscape Medical News. “Our recommendations highlight the importance of focusing on options that are supported by evidence and on those that…[patients] should not waste their time and money on.”…