?Stop smoking, what method to choose

 Invented in China, electronic cigarette is an electronic device that generates a "steam" and can be flavored or not contain nicotine. Is it provided a real smoking cessation? Is it safe? Should it be considered a drug? ... These are topics of debate that inflame specialists for several months.

This is the big day, you decided to quit. Alone or together, with or without consultation with a smoking addiction, withdrawal methods are many. How to choose the one that suits you? Doctissimo asked Dr. Véronique Peim, smoking addiction and attached hospitals in Paris, his advice to avoid mistakes

One might think that there are large groups of smokers and a rapid classification would determine the method best suited to these groups. This is false. Every smoker is different and the way to stop smoking is not that of his neighbor or even his spouse. Moreover, it is difficult to say that one method is better than another. Dr. Peim adds however that "the emergence of nicotine replacement democratized treatments for smoking cessation because they require no prescription or specific consultation. Medicines however impose a passage to the doctor."
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When you are smoking, it is never easy to choose "THE" method adapted to his habits, behavior, its dependence, the method that will stop calmly, limiting the risk of relapse.

Each smoker is unique

To determine the most appropriate method, it will take an interest in the history of smoking. A he already stopped, with what, how? A he was followed by a doctor? Was he satisfied with the result? If it did not work, what is the reason?Does he start with the same method or otherwise change drastically? Choices are many factors and it will therefore analyze the situation. The patient chooses to seek medical advice or to wean himself, he must first ask these questions and answer them in order to choose his method.

Nicotine replacement therapy work very well, if properly used. Dr. Peim recalls that effective patches, pills or gums should be used at the right dosage: if the amount of nicotine is insufficient, substitutes of any kind will not have the desired effect. Second important element: the user manual must be followed to the letter: the gums, for example, are not chewing gum and sometimes you remove the patch at night.

The use of each depends on the substitute smoking and are kind of addictive. To find the right solution, do not hesitate to seek advice from their pharmacist or consult a doctor. One and the other will explain and advise the smoker the most suitable method to his case.

If the person who wants to quit the treatment has already decided that she wanted to use, and there is no medical indication against-there is no reason that the doctor denied. However, we must fight against preconceptions and explain that all methods are effective if properly used.

So we thought yesterday that only a total cessation of tobacco led to success, we now know that gradual withdrawal is possible. And again, depending on each one can choose the most suitable method.

For Dr. Peim, "It is often very anxiety provoking for a smoker to crash and stress can spell failure. It may be appropriate to first remove the cigarette of the day. All smokers know that work how down the 25 floors of the office 10 times a day to smoke may be binding ... The use of substitutes in the day will go without cigarettes and go progressively to a complete halt. "

Whatever the method chosen, the person who decides to quit smoking is to become the main actor of his withdrawal. The right timing, the right method owns. It is a guarantee of success.

For further:

Dr. Véronique has Peim published by Michel Lafon: "A new way to quit smoking without fear of fat ..."