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And now, on to the show. Welcome to Helix Talk, episode five. I'm your co-host, Dr. Kane.

I'm Dr. Patel.

And I'm Dr. Schumann.

And before we get in today's topic, I wanted to update our listeners on an inaccuracy that we had in one of our previous podcasts regarding the novel oral anticoagulants or noax.

In particular, Prodaxa, generic, the Bigotran.

And one of our list owners actually let us know that when the BiggerTran was first approved

by the FDA, it was only approved in the bottle for an expiration date of four weeks, but

that expiration date has now been extended to four months.

So again, instead of four weeks for the expiration, it's now four months with

Prodaxa. However, it's still to be kept in the original container to protect it from the moisture.

And with that said, if any other listeners have any questions or comments regarding any of our

episodes, please visit us at helixotoc.com for our contact information. And we absolutely love

the five-star reviews that we've

received on iTunes. So keep those coming. So today's topic for episode five is going to be on smoking

cessation. We're going to talk a little bit about the pharmacotherapy of smoking cessation,

but really focus a lot of our attention on some of the nuances with one of the newest medications,

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