Stop Smoking Aids - the more the merrier?There are a lot of different "stop smoking" aids on the market. Some of them work, and others are created by entrepreneurs who are looking to make a quick buck. In any case, it is good to familiarize yourself with your choices. In this article, I will give you an introduction into stop smoking aids, as well as some things you should consider to get positive results from using them. Most stop smoking aids come in the form of nicotine replacement therapies. This is a five dollar terms that simply refers to devices such as nicotine patches, gums and inhalers. The idea here is to replace how your body gets its nicotine, and
deliberately decrease the amount of nicotine over a period of time. This
will help you make the transition from smoking to not smoking. |
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When people give up smoking cold turkey they often experience symptoms of withdrawal. They find they are cranking, easily agitated and downright miserable. When they get to feeling like this, it's just too easy for them to go back to smoking. These stop smoking aids will prevent you from feeling miserable on your way to quitting smoking. An interesting study found that the use of stop smoking aids have helped increase the chances of success from anywhere to 50-70%. However, if one does not follow a program while using these aids, they have a 95% chance of going back to smoking after the first year. So which stop smoking aids work the best? Actually, a combination seems to work the best. A French study decided to test a nicotine inhaler against using both a nicotine inhaler and a patch. After monitoring their test subjects for six weeks, they found that only 47.5% quit who use the inhaler. However, 60.5% who used a combination of both had quit. After 12 weeks, 9% more of those who used a combination had quit than those that hadn't. Then, after 12 months, it was found that 5.5% more who used a combination still hadn't smoked compared to those who just use the inhaler. The results of the study tend to suggest that you can increase your chances of quitting smoking by 5.5% simply by using a combination of an inhaler and a patch instead of just an inhaler.
Finally, it's good to remember that these are just stop smoking aids,
and should not be used by themselves, but in conjunction with a program
or system. |