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Nicotine Replacement: When Quitting Cigarettes, Consider Using More Nicotine, Not Less:
When delivered through cigarettes, nicotine is considered to be one of the most addictive substances on Earth, so it may seem odd to suggest that people should use more, rather than less, to quit smoking. A recent review of the research, however, has found just that.
Nicotine replacement therapy, known as NRT, has been used to help people safely quit smoking for more than 20 years. It can be prescribed by a doctor but, in many countries, is also available to buy from grocery stores and pharmacies. The Cochrane review (Cochrane assesses evidence on healthcare interventions and summarises the findings) looked at the best ways to use NRT to quit smoking – and found three ways in which using more nicotine might help:
- Use two forms of NRT rather than one. [...]
- Start to use NRT before stopping smoking. [...]
- Higher doses of NRT may help some people.
If you don't get a "happy" jolt from the release of dopamine (because the levels of nicotine never dropped to a stage of craving), the perceived "reward" for smoking is reduced/removed.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Saturday April 20 2019, @02:34AM (1 child)
My grandfather quit after he started coughing up blood regularly.
My uncle (his son) started around age 18 with his girlfriend/wife, and quit around age 25 because he remembered what happened to his father.
My aunt (his wife) kept smoking until she was ~35, played around with tar filters and stuff before finally quitting - but, she gained a ton of weight after she quit.
I'm pretty sure I never smoked tobacco (and only smoked other things in college), but I have this bizarre quasi-memory from a stressful time in my life where I seem to remember smoking just a few cigarettes, maybe only one pack altogether, but... I don't remember where I kept the pack, I don't remember buying it, or what brand it was, or throwing out the wrapper, or how I lit the cigarettes, or whether or not I inhaled some clean air after the smoke... like I learned in college, and I don't remember what I did with the butts - I certainly didn't leave them on the ground outside the garage where I have these memories of going to smoke. So, I'm pretty sure something in my mind just created this memory of going out for a smoke when things were getting to be too much, but I don't think I actually did it.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 20 2019, @06:14AM
My father smoked until he was bedridden with stage 4 lung cancer that was attacking his nervous system and he couldn't walk any more. Watching someone (especially someone you love) die slowly and painfully like that was one of the hardest things I ever had to do.
You'd think that'd get me to stop smoking, but more than 20 years later, I'm still at it. Go figure.