These products can double quit rates when used along with a solid behavioral change program.
Tips on using pharmaceutical adjuncts:
- Be sure your patients/clients are ready to quit smoking
- Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) relieves the withdrawal symptoms while the quitter works on other aspects of his or her smoking addiction, learning to cope with triggers to smoke
- Be sure the NRT is used for the full time recommended on the package
- Should not be any smoking while using NRT
Smoking Cessation: Clinical Practice Guideline Number 18. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, April 1996. |
