NRT's or Nicotine Replacement Therapies can be helpful in your quit. Here are the
most common NRT's.
**Nicotine patch:The patch contains a special nicotine rate-controlling membrane. This
membrane releases nicotine into your bloodstream through your skin. The patch is designed to provide a lower level of nicotine
to your blood than cigarettes, and allows you to gradually do away with your body's need for nicotine.
If you smoke more than 10 cigarettes a day, follow the 10 week program. Use Step 1 (21mg.)
for 6 weeks, Step 2 (14mg.) for 2 weeks, and Step 3 (7mg.) for 2 weeks.
If you smoke 10 or less a day, follow the 8 week program. Use Step 2 (14mg.) for 6 weeks
and Step 3 (7mg.) for 2 weeks. Click here for more information on which program is right for you.
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**Nicotine Gum: Nicotine gum is sugar-free and chewing pieces provide nicotine to your
system - they work as an aid to help you quit smoking by reducing nicotine withdrawal symptoms.
Nicotine gum is gum but, you don’t chew it like chewing gum. Just take a few slow,
deliberate bites (15 or so) until you get a peppery taste and a "tingle". Then park it between your cheek and gum.
For the first 6 weeks, 1 piece every 1-2 hours. During weeks 7 to 9, use 1 piece every
2 to 4 hours. Finally, during weeks 10 to 12, use 1 piece every 4 to 8 hours.
Do not use more than 24 pieces per day.
If you smoke more than 24 cigarettes a day, use the 4mg. strength.
If you smoke less than 25 cigarettes a day, use the 2mg. strength.
Nicorette
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*Commit Lozenges: Commit Lozenges contain nicotine, so as you use it, nicotine is released and absorbed through
your mouth tissues. This helps to reduce your nicotine cravings and helps relieve some of the withdrawal symptoms you may
be experiencing, like irritability or nervousness. Commit Lozenges deliver a high, safe amount of medicine. And because Commit
doesn’t contain the harmful tar or carbon monoxide found in cigarette smoke, using it doesn’t expose you to the
same health risks as smoking. More importantly, Commit works to wean you off nicotine. As you go through our 12-week program,
you use fewer and fewer lozenges until eventually, you don’t need any at all.
Commit Lozenges
It is best to seek your health care professionals advice when using an NRT,as there
may be some drug interactions.
*This is a new product and a generic brand is not yet available.
**Generic brands are available.
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Some prescription NRT's :
Zyban
Zyban has been used to help with quitting as well.Originally used as an anti-depressant,Zyban
curbs the cravings for cigarettes. Zyban is the name brand of Wellbutrin,same drug.Most insurance companies will not cover
Zyban,but will cover Wellbutrin.
To learn more,see the Zyban and Wellbutrin websites.
Zyban
Wellbutrin
Nicotine Nasal Spray
Unlike smoking cigarettes, Nicotrol NS delivers nicotine
without any of the tars, toxins, and other cancer-causing substances found in cigarette smoke. And with Nicotrol NS, you get
the nicotine your body needs to control your craving, but in a less addictive dose than with smoking.
It's easy to
use Nicotrol NS to reduce your nicotine withdrawal symptoms. With one spray into each nostril, a single 1-mg dose of nicotine
is released and absorbed through the nasal membranes.
Nicotrol NS can help you double your chances of quitting versus
placebo.
Nicotrol NS is available by prescription from your doctor.
Nicotrol NS
Nicotine Inhaler
The Nicotrol Inhaler lets you control the amount of nicotine
you get when you get a craving to smoke. By holding the inhaler between your fingers and puffing on it, you'll get the nicotine
your body needs to control your craving, but in a less concentrated — and less addictive — dose than when you
smoke. The Nicotrol Inhaler should be used as part of a comprehensive behavioral modification program.
And the Nicotrol
Inhaler leaves out the tars, toxins, and other cancer-causing substances found in cigarette smoke.
The Nicotrol Inhaler
is currently available by prescription from your doctor.
Nicotrol Inhaler
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