STOP SMOKING

Therapy / smoking cessation

Being able to quit smoking

The Smoking cessation/ Quitting smoking as a therapy for nicotine abuse can be done in different ways. Possible are:

„cold turkey“

Acupuncture for smoking / Hypnosis

Mesotherapy

Behavior therapy

Nicotine Replacement Therapy (Nicorette)

medical therapy

“Cold withdrawal” means quitting smoking without any supportive measures. Acupuncture and hypnosis to quit are among the alternative cures for smoking.

For more information about hypnosis therapy, read our article: Hypnotherapy

The other procedures mentioned are accompanied by professional, mostly medical, support, which more than doubles the success rate of weaning.

Drug or nicotine replacement therapy also reduces the relapse rate.

Nicotine replacement therapy to quit smoking uses preparations that contain nicotine. These include nicotine patches, nicotine gum, nicotine spray, nicotine inhalers or nicotine-containing lozenges. A combination of different preparations is possible. Depending on the amount of tobacco previously smoked, your dosage is determined individually and the intake should ideally take place according to a fixed schedule, for example one chewing gum every hour.

Alternatively, a medical therapy to give up smoking in order to be able to quit smoking in the long term. Provide approved tablets Bupropion such as Varenicline as a selective dopamine norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor, bupropion is one of the Antidepressants. By inhibiting the resumption of the dopamine released by the nicotine effect, it remains longer on the receptors, so that the withdrawal symptoms are reduced when you stop smoking.

The second drug Varenicline, recruits Alkaloid derivative and acts through the same receptors as nicotine. It binds there, which is why the receptors are activated and, as a result, fewer withdrawal symptoms occur when smoking is stopped. In addition, the varenicline occupies the binding sites of the receptors, so that nicotine can no longer bind and thus becomes ineffective. When you smoke, you don't get the desired feeling of reward.

Behavioral therapy as a way to quit Smoke aims first to motivate the smoker to give up nicotine consumption. The positive effects of long-term abstinence and the negative consequences of persistent tobacco consumption are brought to the fore. This is followed by the prevention of a possible relapse by analyzing factors that could prevent or make quitting more difficult. For example, the smoker is encouraged to avoid certain situations which could lead to smoking. The last stage is the maintenance and stabilization of the newly learned smoke-free behavior.

Overall, this type of smoking cessation follows the transtheoretical model, which the planning of nicotine abstinence in 4 phases divides:

Intention formation: Intention to quit smoking

Preparation: Preparing to quit smoking

Synopsis: stop smoking

Maintenance: Avoiding smoking again