Smoking CESSATION

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What is Smoking Cessation?

Tobacco use can lead to nicotine dependence and serious health problems. Cessation can significantly reduce the risk of suffering from smoking-related diseases.

Tobacco dependence is a chronic condition that often requires repeated interventions, but effective treatments and helpful measures exist.  Smokers can and do quit smoking.  In fact, today there are more former smokers than current smokers.

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Nicotine Dependence

  • Nicotine is the psychoactive drug in tobacco products that produces dependence, Most smokers are dependent on nicotine.
  • Nicotine dependence is the most common form of chemical dependence in the United States. Research suggests that nicotine may be as addictive as heroin, cocaine or alcohol.
  • Quitting smoking is difficult and may require multiple attempts. Users often relaps because of stress, weight gain and withdrawal symptoms.

    Examples of nicotine withdrawal symptoms include irritability, anxiety, difficulty concentrating and increased appetite.

Health Benefits of Cessation

Breaking free from nicotine dependence is not the only reason to quit smoking. Gigarette smoke contains a deadly mix of more than 7,000 chemicals; hundreds are toxic and about 70 can cause cancer. Cigarette smoke can cause serious health problems, numerous diseases and death.

Fortunately, people who stop smoking greatly reduce their risk for disease and premature death. Although the health benefits are greater for people who stop at earlier ages, cessation is beneficial at all ages.

Our Method to Quit Smoking

The majority of cigarette smokers quit without sing evidence-based cesssation treatments. However, our clinic offers the following assistance for smokers who want help to quit:

  • Brief clinical interventions (i.e., when a doctor takes 10 minutes or less to deliver advice and assistance about quitting)
  • Counseling (e.g., individual, group or telephone)
  • Behavioral cessation therapies (e.g., training in problem solving)
  • Treatments with more person-to-person contact and intensity (i.e., more time with counselors)
  • Use of cessation medications which have been found to be effective for treating tobacco dependence

Breathe Well Sleep Well and Live Lung Clinic knows that the combination of medication and counseling is more effective for smoking cessation than either medication or counseling alone and thus uses a multidisciplinary approach to achieve its FABULOUS 100% success rate for Smoking CESSATION.