There was a time when if you wanted to stop smoking, you had to do it cold turkey. That meant that one day you were smoking and the next day you weren't. The only tool you had working for you was your own will power.
For many people, though, this was virtually impossible and there is good reason for that. Smoking is an addiction - an addiction to the drug nicotine - and breaking that addiction is difficult. But, in reality, stop smoking products don't really make breaking that addiction that much easier.
About twenty years ago, the very first nicotine patch appeared on the market. At that time, they were available by prescription only and you had to admit to your doctor (if you hadn't already), that you were a smoker. Many people were too ashamed to tell their doctor that they smoked, knowing how bad it was for them, so they never got on the patch. Eventually, stop smoking products like the nicotine patch and nicotine gum became available over-the-counter, which meant more people were able to use them and today the nicotine patch and nicotine gum are a popular choice for smokers who are attempting to quit smoking.
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- 77.2% quit smoking cold turkey
- 35.9% quit smoking using nicotine patches
- 35.9% quit smoking using nicotine gum
- 35.3% quit using a nicotine inhaler
- 22.8% quit using Zyban or Wellbutrin
Why Stop Smoking Products Don't Work!
The quit smoking patch, or transdermal patch, is an adhesive patch, much like a Band Aid, that is put on your torso, lower back, or upper arm and then releases a supply of nicotine through the skin and into the bloodstream. Nicotine gum works in a similar way and is used like regular gum. When chewed, nicotine gum releases a dose of nicotine into the bloodstream through the mucous membrane within the mouth and like the nicotine patch supplies you with the nicotine you would of received from smoking a cigarette.
The problem with these stop smoking products is that they are still giving you the one thing you crave - nicotine. If you wanted to stop drinking alcohol, you wouldn't use a product that gave you alcohol in another form, would you? But, that is what these patches and gums are all about. They try to stop you from smoking cigarettes, but still give you the nicotine.
In a study conducted in Australia reporting on the best quit smoking methods and there success rates among 2,207 former smokers and 928 current smokers and published in the May 2006 edition of Addictive Behaviour:
The conclusion from this research was that nicotine patches, gums, inhalers and lozenges were ineffective and not the best way to stop smoking and that quitting cold turkey was almost twice as effective as the alternative methods.
In reality, most people who quit smoking cold turkey have a greater success in the long run than people who use stop smoking products like the patch or the nicotine gum. This could be because people who stop on their own are more serious and dedicated, or because they have generated more will power. It could also be because they get the nicotine out of their system so quickly that once they get through the first couple of days and the withdrawal symptoms that will accompany them, that they are able to get on with their lives.
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