New 'Thrive' nicotine replacement gum approved by FDA

Smokers looking for a way to quit now have yet another option: Thrive nicotine replacement gum by Novartis. Just approved by the FDA, Thrive is designed to help smokers kick the habit in 12 weeks. The bold mint flavored gum tingles as users chew it and lasts about 30 minutes.

1 in 5 American adults smoke, but the majority of that number admit to being interested in quitting. That's a good thing, and hopefully this new Thrive gum will be also because smoking kills as many as 438,000 people every year. What a horribly large number of people dying from something completely preventable!