Is one of your New Year's resolutions to quit smoking? An American researcher says using a combination of nicotine patches and a blood pressure medicine may give you a better chance at succeeding. Dr.Jed Rose,head of Durham Veterans Medical Center's Nicotine Research Lab, says a new treatment using nicotine patches plus daily doses of mecamylamine is about eight time more effective in keeping smokers away from cigarettes than the patches alone. Patients need to undergo the treatment for only two mounths. In hospital trials, this treatment successfully kept 37 percent of patients off cigarettes for one year.