Smoking Cessation Methods

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Tobacco addiction contributes to approximately 438,000 deaths in the United States each year2, with smoking cigarettes constituting one of the most common preventable causes of death, on report asserts3. Tobacco use kills five million people a year worldwide, another source stresses4. Quitting smoking, or at least reduction, for instance, could greatly reduce the occurrence of coronary heart disease and other forms of cardiovascular disease.1,5 These diseases that can be prevented or reduced include heart attack, stroke, high blood pressure, atherosclerosis, thrombosis, coronary artery spasm, and cardiac arrhythmia.1

Quitting smoking, albeit, proves to be difficult to most smokers2. Right after a person starts to quit smoking, along with symptoms that accompany nicotine withdrawal, he/she may experience a number of short-term effects such as weight gain, irritability and anxiety.2,3,5 Ways to quit smoking include “cold turkey”, step-by-step manuals, counseling or medical products may help replace or reduce nicotine addiction.3

Advertisers, including drug companies, routinely market a number of stop-smoking products, scientifically “proven” to help a person quit smoking.6 These products, however, cannot do the “work” required to quit smoking.7 Using particular stop-smoking products, albeit, may help the smoker, determined to quit smoking, feel more comfortable and in control while he/she adjusts his/her life to be free from smoking.8,9,10

The development of smoking cessation drugs dates back to 1971 when Pharmacia developed the first nicotine replacement product for smoking cessation, nicotine-laced chewing gum.11 Ensuring, contemporary nicotine replacement products can help relieve so...

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“A new reason to stop smoking: research shows that quitting can reduce your diabetes risk, in addition to providing known health benefits.” 2008, para. 1. Belvoir Media Group, LLC. Available at: http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-34342062_ITM. Accessed April 13, 2009.

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