title: Pharmacological aids for smoking cessation.
abstract: To smokers, nicotine addiction is a powerful vice that is difficult to overcome even with pharmaceutical aids. Relapse rates are high and maintaining a successful quitting strategy is difficult regardless of the method used. Therefore, clinicians should routinely provide positive feedback to help maintain their patients' cessation. Encouraging smoking cessation, selecting appropriate products, and monitoring and supporting patients through their withdrawal symptoms makes for a more complete therapeutic care plan for cessation of tobacco use. In the long term, helping patients to succeed in their cessation treatment has the potential to reduce healthcare costs, save clinicians time and money, and improve morbidity and mortality rates.
authors.affiliation: New England Medical Center, Department of Pharmacy. Kho@lifespan.org
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ho
authors.forename: H M
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Abourjaily
mesh_terms: D000279:Administration, Cutaneous; D000281:Administration, Intranasal; D016642:Bupropion / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000697:Central Nervous System Stimulants / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D002638:Chewing Gum; D018765:Dopamine Uptake Inhibitors / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D005246:Feedback; D006801:Humans; D009330:Nebulizers and Vaporizers; D009538:Nicotine / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D011109:Polymethacrylic Acids / Q000627:therapeutic use; D011145:Polyvinyls / Q000627:therapeutic use; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000379:methods*; D000074606:Smoking Prevention; D061485:Tobacco Use Cessation Devices
chemical_list: D000697:Central Nervous System Stimulants; D002638:Chewing Gum; D018765:Dopamine Uptake Inhibitors; D011109:Polymethacrylic Acids; D011145:Polyvinyls; D016642:Bupropion; D009538:Nicotine