U.S., Sept. 13 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07171112) titled 'Smoking Cessation Trial in Recurrent Acute Pancreatitis and Chronic Pancreatitis' on Aug. 29.
Brief Summary: The purpose of this research is to assess the effectiveness of two treatment strategies for smoking cessation in patients with acute recurrent pancreatitis or chronic pancreatitis who smoke cigarettes. All participants will receive varenicline, a commonly used medication that helps people stop smoking, at its standard dose. For those who are unable to stop smoking after 6 weeks of treatment, they will be randomly selected to either 1) increase their dose of varenicline, 2) combine varenicline with bupropion (another medicati...