4/27/2013

Are you aware that a survey by Centers for Disease Prevention and Control has revealed that the maximum number of deaths every year is caused due to smoking as compared to deaths due to road accidents, murders, AIDS, drugs and alcohol? Yes smoking has emerged as the gravest reason leading people to rest in graveyards. Smoking acts like poison slowly taking you towards death bed. Most people realize the ill effects of smoking but yet find it extremely difficult to put an end to the habit of smoking. Thus to prevent smoking people have to resort to stop smoking aids easily available in markets today.



Realizing the severe effects of smoking, various organizations exhibit campaigns against smoking, preach on various natural ways like picking up a sport, keeping the mind busy in work, avoiding passive smoking and leading a healthy lifestyle. However, any persuasion or motivation is ineffective until and unless the individual decides to put an end to this habit. Along with self motivation, following are few of the stop smoking aids available in the markets:



Nicotine Replacement Therapies



Commonly known as NRTs, these are available in various forms. For e.g. Nicotine patches which can be applied on the body once in a day and the dosage can be reduced as and when the urge for nicotine slows down. Also there is the nicotine gum which can be purchased without a prescription from a pharmacy and is available in different flavors. Nicorette is a well known type of nicotine gum. There is also the Nicotine Inhaler and nicotine nasal spray which can be sprayed in the nostril when one feels the need to smoke. It may have some side effects and hence doctor's consultation is necessary before using it. One more stop smoking aid of NRT is the nicotine lozenge which is a tablet available in fruit flavors. The tablet can be used for 20-30 min and helps satisfy the desire for nicotine. All these aids definitely have a few side effects like feeling of nausea and congestion, vomiting, sore throat, ulcers, dizziness etc. These stop smoking aids definitely help in the attempt to stop smoking.



Varenicline



Commonly known as Chantix or Champix, this is also a prescribed drug in a tablet form which works in a special way by blocking the receptors of nicotine in the brain and thus the person does anger, aggressiveness. One of the other severe side effects is an attempt to suicide. Many people have felt like attempting a suicide while using this drug. Also patients with kidney and cardiovascular diseases and pregnant and breast feeding ladies should not resort to using Varenicline.



Besides these there are herbal medicines and various motivation and hypnosis videos which also act as stop smoking aids. Quit For Sure is a well known name among few hypnosis videos available in the markets. There are also Herbal teas, smoker's herbal aromas etc that add as stop smoking aids. There is also non-tobacco cigarettes which can help as a replacement for the cigarette that you want to hold in your hand. All these aids may definitely act as a help to the wish to quit smoking. However, constant love and support of family and friends and of course the individual's own will power and self motivation is the key to the termination of this habit.
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