Evidence-based On-call

internal medicine

Acute coronary syndrome

Prevalence
Clinical features
Differential diagnosis
Investigations
Therapy
Prevention
Prognosis

Prevention

Smoking

Alternatives include nortryptiline ^a

Why?

Nortryptiline helps smokers quit. ^a

Nortryptiline helps smokers quit

Patient	Treatment	Comparison	Outcome	CER	OR (95% CI)	NNT (95% CI)
smoker ^a	nortryptiline	placebo	sustained smoking cessation at 6months	14%	2.83 (1.59 to 5.03)	6 (3 to 15)

Expiry date: June 2003
Levels of Evidence used in grading these guides

Authors	CM Ball , N Shenker
Reviewer	I K Jang
CAT Writers	N Shenker , CJ Wotton , CM Ball , RS Phillips