Chantix is a non-nicotine pill treatment that targets the nicotine receptors in the brain. While there are some disconcerting side effects, it is a very effective means by which 44% of users successfully quit smoking on their first try. Users can even continue to smoke while on their first week of treatment!
Nicoderm CQ nicotine replacement therapies:
When trying to deal with an addiction such as cigarettes, the brain tells you that you still need the nicotine; even though addicts don’t want to smoke any more, often times the urge becomes so great that will power isn’t enough. Nicotine replacement therapy gives the body small amounts of nicotine, therein letting the brain down gently rather than trying to quit “cold turkey”.
There are four main vehicles by which those who want to quit may get their nicotine fix (information copied from Nicoderm CQ Website).
“Patches: These look like large adhesive bandages and are stuck onto the skin in the same way. The sticky side of the patch contains a layer of nicotine. While you are wearing the patch, the nicotine passes through the skin into your blood.
Gum: This looks like chewing gum, but it contains nicotine. As you chew the gum and hold it in your mouth, the nicotine passes through the skin inside your mouth into your blood.
Lozenges: These work like the gum, but you allow them to dissolve in your mouth instead of chewing them.
Inhalator: This is a device which looks similar to a cigarette. You load it with a cartridge containing nicotine and suck air through it. Once the nicotine is in your mouth, it is absorbed into the blood in the same way as it is for the gum and lozenges. Inhalators are available with a prescription only.”
There has been controversy surrounding nicotine replacement therapy recently, the dispute being that, while they can quit more easily, smokers generally tend to relapse if using these often costly treatments.
Electronic Cigarette:
This device was originally intended to get consumers to smoke a “healthier” version of tobacco, employing a tobacco cartridge, water vapor that is meant to look like smoke, and even a LED-lighted tip that glows bright red as the user takes a drag. Despite the intentions of helping today’s smoker reduce intake of harmful chemicals and eventually stop altogether, in recent years the face of the E-Cigarette, as it has come to be called has changed. Now, rather than it being a bridge to ending addiction, it is marketed as being just as good as an authentic cigarette, and unlike the real cigarette, restriction free. Owners can smoke the e-cigarette in places that have banned tobacco use. It may have been developed to stop consumption, but this product seems like it just replaces one bad habit with another.
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