Medicine’s Rong Xu discusses research findings linking semaglutide to reduced alcohol use disorder and smoking

Ozempic and Wegovy could help smokers kick the habit

BloombergRong Xu, professor at the School of Medicine, discussed recent research that links semaglutide—the key ingredient in diabetes shot Ozempic and its sister drug Wegovy for obesity—to a reduction in both alcohol use disorder and smoking. “People like food, people like drinking or smoking or taking addictive medication,” she said. “We thought they probably share some common mechanisms.”