nicotine dependence
Addiction medicine · 2017–2018
No submission for this condition has carried consumer input, including the 3 made since the comments facility came into use.
Every decision
| Medicine | Meeting | Outcome | Consumer input |
|---|---|---|---|
| nicotine Nicotine dependence in cigarette smokers who wish to quit and enter into a behavioural support program. | Mar 2018 | Recommended | no section in document |
| nicotine Nicotine dependence in cigarette smokers who wish to quit smoking and enter into a behavioural support program. | Jul 2017 | Deferred | none received |
| varenicline Nicotine dependence; continuation of a short-term course of treatment (12 weeks or up to 24 weeks) as an aid to achieving abstinence from smoking. | Nov 2017 | Recommended | none received |
What the PBS pays
$19M in government benefit over 2024–25, across 372,068 services.
This is spend on the medicines considered for this condition, not spend on the disease. A medicine used for several conditions is counted in full under each, so figures across conditions add to more than national PBS expenditure.
| Medicine | Government benefit |
|---|---|
| varenicline | $10.3M |
| nicotine | $8.6M |
Registered, not subsidised
Medicines on the ARTG for this condition with no PBAC record at all. Registration and subsidy are separate decisions: a medicine can be legally available in Australia and never have been put to the committee.
| Medicine | On the ARTG since | Registrations |
|---|---|---|
| bupropionZYBAN SR bupropion hydrochloride 150mg tablet blister pack | 2000 | 1 |
The ARTG export holds current registrations only, so the year is the earliest entry still on the register rather than a first-registration date. The condition here comes from the registered label, which is usually broader than the population a sponsor asks to have subsidised.
Conditions are classified by a language model from the indication text of each submission, so an individual label here can be wrong. Consumer input is read from the document's own consumer comments section: 0 of 3 decisions since 2014 carried some. Silence means no comment reached the committee through that facility, not that nobody was affected. More on how this was built.