Case scenario

Charlie, a 54-year-old regular patient of your pharmacy, comes in with a prescription for varenicline. He discloses that his smoking has increased significantly since his divorce and that it escalated further during the isolation periods of the COVID-19 pandemic. His other medicines include amlodipine, atorvastatin and fluoxetine. You dispense the varenicline and ask that he join you in the private consulting room to have a chat about his new medicine. 

Introduction

Despite being the most technologically connected society in history, we appear to be the loneliest. Robust scientific evidence has declared loneliness a significant dan

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