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Do you want to stay healthy? If yes then why
is it so hard for you to quit smoking? Why do you keep yourself indulged
in this bad habit, all the time? The present health scenario is such
that if you eat more, you get ill; if you drink more, you end up feeling
unwell; then where is the scope left to imbibe something as worst as
smoking in your lifestyle.
Here, the role of
nicotine replacement therapy comes into light to help you quit smoking.
Nicotine replacement therapy is not all about nicotine. It is about
picking the good over the bad. It is not going to help if you quit
smoking and pick up some other bad habit.
Nicotine replacement
therapies are available in different varieties which help you in
fighting the cravings. They decrease or stop the cravings and make it
easier for you to cope with the withdrawal symptoms. They are
administered by providing user controlled doses of nicotine without the
other harmful components of cigarette smoke. The nicotine replacement
therapy can be availed of in the following different ways:
1) Nicotine nasal spray
2) Nicotine patches
3) Nicotine inhalers
4) Nicotine gums
5) Nicotine lozenges
All these nicotine replacement products are approved by the US Food and
Drug Administration (FDA). While the nicotine patches, gums and lozenges
are easily available as 'over the counter' products, the nicotine nasal
sprays and inhalers can be purchased only with a physician's
prescription.
As a smoker is
going through the phase of kicking the habit, he needs some other means
as a cushion to support him in the difficult times. When a smoker quits
smoking, he suffers from some physical nicotine withdrawal symptoms. To
cope with these symptoms you should use the nicotine replacement
therapies with some behavioral therapies to get the best results. These
behavioral therapies or programs are recommended to help the smokers
break their psychological or mental dependence on cigarettes.
However, there are some preconditions to using the nicotine
replacement therapy. People with certain medical conditions such as
asthma should abstain from using it. Pregnant women should also not use
it. It is important that people who are using these therapies should not
smoke as it will add up to receiving double doses of nicotine which
could sometimes prove fatal.
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