%0 Journal Article
%T Effects of varenicline on sympatho-vagal balance and cue reactivity during smoking withdrawal: a randomised placebo-controlled trial
%A Alexandra Gossler
%A Gerd Hasenfu£¿
%A Helge Haarmann
%A Peter Herrmann
%A Slavtcho Bonev
%A Stefan Andreas
%A Tobias Raupach
%A Xuan Phuc Nguyen
%J Archive of "Tobacco Induced Diseases".
%D 2016
%R 10.1186/s12971-016-0091-x
%X Varenicline is an effective smoking cessation medication. Some concern has been raised that its use may precipitate adverse cardiovascular events although no patho-physiological mechanism potentially underlying such an effect has been reported. The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that varenicline impacts on sympatho-vagal balance during smoking withdrawal
%K Smoking cessation
%K Sympathetic activity
%K Baroreflex
%K Cue reactivity
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4977756/