Doctors: Anti-smoking pill developed in Bulgaria cheap and easy way to quit cigarettes

Doctors say a pill first developed in Bulgaria during the days of the Iron Curtain may be a cheap and easy way of getting millions of smokers to give up the habit.

The first major study of the drug called cytisine appears in Thursday's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Cytisine is derived from laburnum seeds, which researchers call a natural nicotine substitute. A study carried out with hundreds of smokers in Poland shows those given cytisine were more than three times as successful in quitting cigarettes than those given placebos. Read More

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