Ozempic and Wegovy could help smokers kick the habit
Bloomberg: Rong 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.”