Treatment
A smoking cessation program may improve one’s chance for success in quitting. This may be possible by following the fives A’s of smoking cessation: ask about tobacco use, advise quitting, assess willingness to make a quit attempt, assist in quit attempt and arrange follow-up. Additionally, nicotine replacement therapy may also be useful. This can be achieved by the use of nicotine patches, which also can prevent other diseases that other tobacco constituents produce. A health care provider can also prescribe medicines to help smokers quit and prevent former smokers from starting again. Other pharmacotherapies include bupropion (which should never be uses on patients who have had seizures), varenicline, nortryptiline, clonidine and rimonabant.
The most important component for full nicotine cessation is willpower.. This can be supplemented with medication or other means. These include behavioral therapy, which often includes developing a plan to set a date to end smoking (sometimes with the support of family and friends), anticipating obstacles that may occur during the treatment and removing all nicotine products from the patient’s environment. However, the most important factor is the coping skills for the prevention of relapse, which is why smokers need to develop behavioral and cognitive tools to prevents and solve a crisis. Clinicians use methods to help people stop this addiction like self-help materials and simple cognitive-behavioral therapy. These treatments help the smoker to detect “high-risk smoking situations”, manage stress, increase social support and develop activities to endure the nicotine withdrawal treatment. The combination of medical and behavioral treatments can increase the odds of total withdrawal from nicotine.
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