Why Nicotine Replacement Therapy does not work

For many years the only treatment for those requiring a little extra help in quitting smoking was offered in the form of nicotine replacement therapy. This therapy was endorsed by the NHS and offered on prescription to quitters wishing to get over their addiction. Whilst NRT has stopped some people from lighting up it is a difficult therapy to follow and seldom are results successful for the pure reason that replacing nicotine in one form with another makes no sense in aiming to cure nicotine addiction.

People start smoking for various reasons, but addiction is what keeps them going for life despite health warnings, the high cost of smoking and the awful smell associated with the habit. Nicotine is, as we well know, a highly addictive substance and often new smokers are hooked after just a few days or weeks after taking the habit up regularly. Nicotine is the reason why most people fail to quit through willpower alone, and this means that tackling the addiction to nicotine is the most important action in quitting smoking. NRT in this respect is not an ideal treatment as it requires using the addictive substance as a means to cure the addiction. In fact success rates of NRT are very low and often quitters go back to smoking after a few weeks or months, unable to shake their cravings for nicotine. NRT never aimed to purge the body of nicotine and so fails completely in addressing the key cause of addiction and for this reason cannot really work. Instead when smokers try to quit smoking with a prescription medication that stops them feeling the effects of nicotine withdrawal the rate of success are much higher. Champix est un nouveau traitement pour le sevrage nicotinique, contre le tabagisme , and is being hailed as a miracle drug by those who have tried it and have successfully binned the habit altogether. Champix is better than the traditional Nicotine Replacement Therapies as rather than maintaining the body’s levels of nicotine it aims to purge the body of this poison and does so without causing withdrawal symptoms.

The merits of using NRT should not be completely overlooked, as for many years the treatment was used as a safer alternative to cigarettes and the benefits of using NRT in the long run have had noticeable positive affects of health, especially smoking associated cancer rates. However, NRT is intended for life and the costs to public spending are high. Providing the drug that fuels addiction on the NHS is ludicrous now there are even better more effective alternatives to nicotine replacement therapy and NRT should now not be the government’s first choice in tackling the smoking issue.

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