क्विनीन और तंबाकू और धूम्रपान का इंटरैक्शन

Cigarette Smoking (CYP1A2 Inducer) In healthy male heavy smokers, the mean quinine AUC following a single 600 mg dose was 44% lower, the mean C max was 18% lower, and the elimination half-life was shorter (7.5 hours versus 12 hours) than in their non-smoking counterparts.

However, in malaria patients who received the full 7-day course of quinine therapy, cigarette smoking produced only a 25% decrease in median quinine AUC and a 16.5% decrease in median C max , suggesting that the already reduced clearance of quinine in acute malaria could have diminished the metabolic induction effect of smoking.

Because smoking did not appear to influence the therapeutic outcome in malaria patients, it is not necessary to increase the dose of quinine in the treatment of acute malaria in heavy cigarette smokers.