Stop smoking basics

Since ages, smoke and human life share an inverse liaison i.e. a
surge in the former brings a reduction in the quality as well as
quantity of the latter. The smoke that is rich in the hazardous
substance called nicotine enters human body via cigarette
smoking. The active smokers as well as the passive ones both
suffer greatly due to smoking. Studies and surveys reveal the
escalating number of human lives that smoke swallows each day.
Keeping this alarming death rate because of cigarette smoking in
mind, doctors have developed new therapies, the government and
some non-profit organizations have initiated certain quit
smoking programs to make people aware of injurious effects of
smoking. This article will enumerate the various new and
beneficial measures taken in this direction.

1.	In order to save an individual’s life from smoking, the
foremost strategy is to treat the rinse out the excess of
nicotine in his body. The ‘Nicotine Therapies’ or ‘Nicotine
Replacement Therapies’ (NRT’s) work for this very purpose.
During the course of this therapy, the individual is restrained
from smoking by feeding him with calculated doses of nicotine to
avoid detrimental consequences. This keeps the person in a
balanced state and minimizes the craving for cigarette as the
dosage of nicotine is reduced gradually. 

Nicotine substitution is also done via nicotine-laced chewing
gums. This method to quit cigarette smoking can be traced back
to 1971 when Pharmacia developed it and FDA approved of it in
1984. These gums were successful to a particular extent but lost
worth when people started getting addicted to them. Apart from
nicotine-laced gums, inhalers, nasal sprays and transdermal skin
patch are other devices that function for the same cause.
Amongst these the transdermal skin patch form of NRT is greatly
acclaimed. Users put the nicotine patch to have time-released
assistance. 

 2.	Prescription drugs such as Bupropion or Zyban and Buspirone
or BuSpar have proved to be of tremendous help to chain smokers
in limiting smoking addiction. Basically these drugs are
antidepressants and are prescribed to patients of depression.
But they have also proved to be greatly effective in controlling
the smoking habit. 

 3.	Hypnosis is a psychotic therapy to lessen smoking obsession.
Hypnosis purges the individual of pro-smoking thoughts and fills
him with revulsion to smoking. This is possible because hypnosis
takes the person in a semi-conscious state where he can be
programmed to do things which the hypnotist wants him to do.
Regular hypnotic treatment has diminished cigarette craving to a
large extent. 

4.	Negative Stimuli method for quitting smoking involves giving
small electric shocks that injects in the person a reluctance to
smoke.

 5.	Rapid Smoking or Satiation Smoking, as the name suggests is
to induce in the addict an aversion to smoke by giving him a
hefty dosage of cigarettes. He is made to smoke twice the number
of cigarettes he smokes regularly. In most of the cases at the
end, the person starts feeling sick of nicotine and dislikes
cigarette.

 6.	However, none of these tough therapies can be fruitful
unless an addict himself decides to refrain from smoking. ‘God
helps those who help themselves’. Self desire and strong will
are essential pre requisites to any kind of quit smoking
treatment. Self-help is the best help, so, an individual should
be absolutely prepared to save his life from devastation due to
smoking