Cytisine 1.5mg Tablets

Clinical Indication

For smoking cessation

Comments

Inpatient initiation by hospital stop smoking teams only.

Short-term, 25 day course. Full course to be dispensed at, or, prior to discharge. Patient followed up by the hospital stop smoking team during inpatient stay and after discharge.

In case of treatment failure, the treatment should be discontinued and may be resumed after 2 to 3 months

Date of classification

May 2024

Red

Medicines which should be prescribed only in a specialist setting usually within a secondary or tertiary care service. NB: Some highly specialised RED medicines e.g. injectable treatments for cancer are not included on the LLR APC website list.