QUIT CIGARETTE SMOKING
IF YOU SMOKE CIGARETTES, YOU SHOULD STOP.
THERE IS NO BEHAVIOR THAT DRIVES
Heart Disease and
Cancer
Like cigarette smoking.
If you smoke,
and want to do a single thing for improving your health,
quitting cigarette smoking
is THE MOST IMPORTANT!
Quitting Is Not Easy.
BUT
Even If It Takes Several Tries
The Health Benefits Are Worth It.
I Have Two Messages for My Patients:
If you smoke tobacco, you should stop.
If you are ready to stop,
I’ll help with medication that reduces your:
Cravings for cigarettes
Withdrawal symptoms
Symptoms of Withdrawal
Trouble sleeping
Irritability
Anxiety
Anger
Foggy thinking
Medicine To Help You Quit
Nicotine Replacement
Chantix
Wellbutrin/Zyban
How Do MEDS Work?
By controlling craving and settling your withdrawal symptoms
Nicotine Replacement
Nicotine is the chemical in cigarettes that causes addiction.
Delivering nicotine in a non-cigarette form such as:
patches, lozenges, gum, sprays, or inhalers,
Protects you from the damaging effect of cigarette smoke,
while reducing your craving.
These replacements do not require a prescription.
The best plan: use a combination of 2:
a patch daily and
gum or lozenges when you get a sudden craving.
Chantix
(verenicline)
This is prescription medicine that I will prescribe.
You take it by mouth, twice daily.
It reduces both:
Cravings
Withdrawal symptoms
Wellbutrin and Zyban
(Bupropion)
This is also a prescription medicine that I prescribe.
It reduces your cravings to smoke.
Studies have shown that patients are often more successful on a combination of:
Nicotine replacement, and
Prescribed Medicine
Quitting Cigarette Smoking
Means
preventing heart diseases like
heart attacks and
high blood pressure.
AND
preventing cancer.
BEHAVIOR THERAPY
MEDICATION + BEHAVIOR THERAPY IS A POWERFUL COMBINATION
