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Pill helps you lose weight and quit smoking all at the same time
When a person has to lose weight and stop smoking, is the same doctor who recommends you to do one thing at a time. Pleasures deprived of these two would generate patient anxiety levels are too high to be able to cope with treatment. However, if it is to demonstrate the efficacy of a drug that is under investigation, it would become part of the past.
Rimonabant, this is the name of the drug in question, does block a receptor involved in the sense of anxiety, helping a person lose weight and quit smoking simultaneously. A group of scientists has just presented last week at the annual meeting of the European Society of Cardiology in Munich, Germany.
The drug was tested in 1,507 obese people. One half of the group took a daily pill Rimonabant 20 mg, while the rest took a placebo only. During the experience, the whole group was subjected to a diet for a year and performed daily physical exercises. The results were quite encouraging. Those who had used the pill real achievement on average 8.6 kilos down, and reduce the waist diameter of about 8.5 cm, against just 3.8 kilos and 4.5 cm for those who consumed the placebo.