Q. What's the relapse rate for people who quit smoking?
Studies there have found that they reduce the relapse rate for schizophrenia by more than 50 percent.
The relapse rate for heroin addicts is lower than that.
Any treatment lasting less than a year has an approximate relapse rate of 40%.
When given three times a day, it cut the relapse rate by 51 percent.
Now new research may shed some light on why relapse rates are so high.
It does reduce the relapse rate for high risk patients.
There is a 29% to 69% relapse rate, however, so the treatment may need to be repeated.
The relapse rates after stopping the medicines are close to 50%.
A relapse rate of 7% follows one such course.