Your doctor, dentist, or pharmacist can suggest the correct nicotine replacement drug for you. If you can’t see your doctor, go to your local pharmacy or grocery store for over the counter nicotine replacement medicines. Read the instructions to see if the medicine is right for you. If you're not sure, ask the pharmacist. If you are taking other medications, ask the pharmacist or your doctor if they will interact well with the nicotine replacement drug you are considering.
Other tobacco cessation prescription drugs, such as Zyban or FDA approved Chantix, must be prescribed by your doctor or dentist.
Right now is when I tell you about a controversial tobacco cessation study being done by the psychology department of an American university that relies on a combination of behavioral therapy and -- well, smoking.
Smokers in the study are scheduled to smoke at times when they usually wouldn’t smoke and kept from smoking at their habitual times. This is said to have been designed to “break the psychological connection” between desire and act. Since this is a relatively short seven week program, its success would be a boon to those smokers, like me, who quit about ten times before I quit forever. However, since the study is still in progress, there is no way yet to judge its success. I need to add that all government studies on tobacco cessation programs -- for all age groups -- strongly advise against “cutting back” or smoking during attempts to quit smoking.
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