Stop Smoking Aids Overview

by Angelina Petterson

Stop smoking aids are used by millions of people world wide to help stop smoking. Quitting smoking is hard. It is not always necessary to use any aids to quit smoking but it becomes inevitable because of the difficulty of breaking a nicotine dependency.

Aids to stop smoking are essentially pharmaceutically developed tools to help smokers kick the smoking habit. The best known and commonly used stop smoking products are nicotine replacement therapies (NRT). These use a technique were-by medically approved solutions are ingested to supply nicotine to deal with nicotine cravings that immediately follow any attempt to quit smoking.

Nicotine replacement products will include nicotine patches, nicotine lozenges, nicotine chewing gum and nicotine inhalers. By way of review these particular aids for stopping smoking come with their own side effects which may include headaches, mood swings and nausea amongst others. This is all apart from nicotine withdrawal symptoms.

In some extreme cases, some users of NRTs have reported addiction especially of nicotine chewing gum lasting even for years. This however has been found to be as a result of misuse of the stop smoking aid. NRTs have the danger of nicotine overdose which may actually lead to nicotine poisoning if used out-side of packaging guidelines.

NRTs can not be used by pregnant women who are expecting. They will adversely affect the unborn child which might be consequently born with defects. They may also not be used by individuals with pre-existing conditions such as heart disease and diabetes.

Other stop smoking aids include pharmaceutical drugs such as Chantix and Bupricon. Results of these drugs have been mixed. Some users have complained of the drugs being too strong and containing further toxins beyond the 4000 already present in tobacco smoke. This hinders body detox which many quitting smokers desire as they quit.

Apart from this the drugs are also expensive and require a doctor's prescription before starting. All in all the Chantix dosage will require that a patient swallows over 300 tablets over the entire duration of the quit smoking program.

Some users also suffer varying Chantix side effects. A complete Chantix program will cost upwards of US$1000.00

Another stop smoking aid that is growing in popularity are stop smoking herbs. An increasing number of quitting smokers appreciate the combo power of specific herbs to carry out a detox, ease nicotine withdrawal symptoms as well as do a through repair of internal organs at the same time. Herbs are common amongst smokers for lung cleansing. They have the capability of turning dark rubbery unhealthy lungs into pink healthy ones over a relatively shorter period of time.

The emergency of electronic smoking via e-cigarettes has raised claims of good success in quitting smoking using these products. E-cigarettes hold no approval from the FDA in the United States. This has made it difficult for electronic cigarettes to be marketed in the United States as quit smoking aids. Regardless of this fact a substantial number of people has claimed unprecedented success in stopping smoking using the product.

Even though like the electronic cigarette it never received FDA efficacy approval, nicotine water has also been effective amongst certain groups in quitting smoking.

Nico water as it also known is governed by packaging instructions forbidding excess consumption which might lead to nicotine overdose. This stop smoking method consists of bottled water mixed with nicotine which can be sipped on as and when cravings come.

Yet another group is that which have found success using laser quit smoking treatment as part of the many stop smoking aids. A significant number of doctors reject the claimed effectiveness of laser treatment to stop smoking.

For each of the various stop smoking products above the results vary from one individual to the other. Smoking relapses may occur on any of them. Research has shown that aids to stop smoking produces double the results when used together with stop smoking programs.

Free stop smoking aids such as free nicotine patches are usually available with stop smoking programs in many states in the United States. These programs are also often funded by non-profit organisations.

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