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Being a regular smoker, motivational therapy with a trained psychotherapist or a psychiatrist and enormous will power will help you quit. If you are a diseased smoker, consult a de addiction psychiatrist at the earliest. He may give you anti-addiction medications and de addiction treatment. Medicines like bupropion and verinicline also help in treating addiction of smoking or chewing tobacco. One can get the prescription of the same from a qualified psychiatrist.
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Congratulations that you want to quit smoking. Tobacco consumption, either through smoke or other edible forms, is always harmful. The desire to quit is a good starting point. The best way to quit is to know more about the ill-effects of tobacco. The knowledge is astounding and scary. That information itself should help you to want to quit. Smoking uses the respiratory system and gives you a faster kick. The tobacco tar in cigarette smoke lines your lungs with huge patches that make that portion...more
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First step is you can chew nicotine chewing gums instead of smoking available as nicotex (cipla). Second step is using antidepressants like bupropion or venlafaxine but should be done under a deaddiction program under supervision of a psychiatrist who has experience with these drugs. Regular exercise and meditation with strong will might be enough also.
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Yes, There are treatment methods available for smoking caesation which includes motivation enhancement therapy and drug therapy combination for that u have to visit nearby psychiatrist.
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First of all with an asthmatic condition, your friend is fooling around with a poison that uses and harms the respiratory system. He desperately needs to quit smoking. The erratic pattern, induced by his attempts to quit, is worthy endeavors but true success lies in his finding support either through therapy or through the support of a close friend. Let him not attempt to stop gradually because the success rate of such attempts is neither permanent nor reliable. He needs to stop abruptly and imm...more
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Hi I am very glad that you asked this question, which many people have in mind.
To explain you this I will give you one example. When we get frequent acidity that is mainly because of our wrong eating habit and sometimes other causes. We advise such patients to be on diet and medicines. Once patient stops medicines but goes back to old wrong eating habits, then the condition worsens and he needs to start on medicines again. So is he addicted to medicines or wrong food habits. He needs to cha...more
To explain you this I will give you one example. When we get frequent acidity that is mainly because of our wrong eating habit and sometimes other causes. We advise such patients to be on diet and medicines. Once patient stops medicines but goes back to old wrong eating habits, then the condition worsens and he needs to start on medicines again. So is he addicted to medicines or wrong food habits. He needs to cha...more
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Bupropion Hydrochloride is an antidepressant used to control Smoking cravingss and have few side effect if continued used such as dry mouth, sore throat, nausea, vomiting, stomach/abdominal pain, flushing, headache, changes in appetite, weight loss or gain, constipation, trouble sleeping, increased sweating, increased urination, strange taste in mouth, sore throat, muscle pain, joint aches, dizziness, itching, skin rash, ringing in your ears, loss of interest in sex, or blurred vision.
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If you are an occasional smoker - with public messages, health awareness programs and your own doctors advice, you can quit. If you are a regular smoker, motivational therapy with a trained psychotherapist or a psychiatrist and enormous will power will help you quit. If you are a diseased smoker, consult a de addiction psychiatrist at the earliest. He may give you anti-addiction medications and de addiction treatment. Medicines like bupropion and verinicline also help in treating addiction of sm...more
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Stop smoking beedi.
You may start on nicotine patch/ chew gum Nicorette.
Best is stop all and can take medication like Bupropion XR 150 mg after checking ECG and Other tests.
You may start on nicotine patch/ chew gum Nicorette.
Best is stop all and can take medication like Bupropion XR 150 mg after checking ECG and Other tests.
Answered 8 years ago
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Hi there, I am very glad for your question. I appreciate that you got the courage to have your question answered on a public forum.
Start your stop smoking plan with start
s = set a quit date.
Choose a date within the next two weeks, so you have enough time to prepare without losing your motivation to quit. If you mainly smoke at work, quit on the weekend, so you have a few days to adjust to the change.
T = tell family, friends, and co-workers that you plan to quit.
Let your ...more
Start your stop smoking plan with start
s = set a quit date.
Choose a date within the next two weeks, so you have enough time to prepare without losing your motivation to quit. If you mainly smoke at work, quit on the weekend, so you have a few days to adjust to the change.
T = tell family, friends, and co-workers that you plan to quit.
Let your ...more
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