Habitrol Nicotine Gum makes it easier to quit smoking by helping reduce the craving for cigarettes.

With cigarette smoking clearly recognised as a serious health risk and with regulations and laws against smoking in cars, offices and public places becoming ever more restrictive it is not as much fun to be a smoker as it used to be. But giving it up can be really hard. With cigarettes being manufactured with higher concentrations of nicotine many smokers have acknowledged tobacco smoking as being harder to quit than the notorious drugs, cocaine and heroin.

Hypnotherapy seems to help a number of smokers give up. One of our customers dropped her cigarette use from over 20 per day down to 4 after only two sessions with a hypnotherapist. Alan Carr's program seems to be similarly successful if not more so. Some give up smoking cold turkey, a method requiring sheer determination, will power and clarity of purpose. However medically proven nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) makes it easier to quit smoking than cold turkey methods.

Available in several forms the most popular variations of NRT continue to be nicotine patches and gum. Habitrol nicotine patches release nicotine at a steady rate over a 24 hour period while Habitrol Gum is used when there is a craving for a cigarette. The aim of NRT is to stop smoking and substitute tobacco for a nicotine patch or a gum. The toxic chemicals found in tobacco smoke are no longer being inhaled but the nicotine addiction remains. It's certainly a positive step in the right direction and further patience is required.

There are a lot of triggers that cause a cigarette to be lit. The time elapsed since the last one, certain times of the day such as morning or afternoon tea times and many smokers will tell you that coffee goes well with a cigarette. Or a beer or a wine for that matter. The triggers will still give impulse to the smoker but NRT will help alleviate the craving and weaken the impulse. Given time these impulses get weaker and have less hold over the ex-smoker. As these triggers become weaker the smoker may slowly wean off the NRT therapy. Usually a three month period is considered the most effective although some may take longer. Sadly some smokers relapse and take up cigarettes again but many succeed on second or even third attempts once they become clear about their resolve. In all cases NRT is still helpful.

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