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Quit Smoking Drugs Help To Ease Symptoms Of Nicotine Withdrawal
By Brian Welsch
The feeling of teeth growing together and the inability to think clearly are two of the basic complaints of people experiencing nicotine withdrawal, and their families and best friends frequently link their bad moods with attempting to quit smoking. Medications have been discovered to help a person kick their nicotine habit and today there are at least 2 quit smoking drugs on the market.
Prior to the development of the new quit smoking drugs, all products were just nicotine replacement products that enabled smokers to get their usual fix of nicotine without all the smoke and the accompanying smells and dirt from the ashes floating around the house and car. Actually, one of the original stop smoking pills, Zyban is just an antidepressant, Wellbutrin, repackaged and sold as one of the stop smoking medications.
Patients who were prescribed this medication reported that they had less desire to smoke and when they did attempt to stop the characteristic effects of nicotine withdrawal were minimal or missing. Following supplemental studies, Wellbutrin was approved and distributed as one of the quit smoking drugs under the name of Zyban.
Nicotine Dependence Can Be Hard To Break
Another of the latest stop smoking drugs, varenicline is distributed under the trademark of Chantix and reduces the symptoms of nicotine withdrawal. With both Zyban and Chantix, the patient is advised to continue smoking for the first weeks they are using the quit smoking drugs and then stop smoking on a target date. Both are said to take about twelve weeks before the habit is eliminated. Currently, about twenty percent of the patients using these medications have reportedly quitted smoking without the symptoms of withdrawal.
All of the modern stop smoking drugs carry the potential for side effects and a prior medical examination is required. None of them contain nicotine and are not planned to be used as a substitute for nicotine, rather they are designed to help a patient get through the initial stages of withdrawal without the associated negative side effects.
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