Nicotine Replacement Therapy

There are a lot of people smoking now, especially male friends. Almost every adult male has the habit of smoking. Smoking is very harmful to our health and can cause great damage to our lungs. In severe cases, it can also cause lung cancer and some other diseases. However, there are still many people smoking and cannot quit.

Let's take a look at a method of quitting smoking, nicotine replacement therapy

Do you know about nicotine replacement therapy? This is a very popular method of quitting smoking. Many people want to quit smoking, but everyone should know that quitting smoking is not that simple. It is often unsuccessful to quit smoking for a long time. Today we will learn about this method.

Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) replaces nicotine in tobacco with a non-tobacco form, a small dose of safe nicotine preparation. The nicotine it provides is less than that obtained from smoking, but it is enough to reduce withdrawal symptoms. After using it for a period of time, the nicotine intake of smokers gradually decreases to the minimum, thereby overcoming the smoking habit and achieving the goal of successfully quitting smoking.

Correct understanding

Whenever we talk about cigarettes, it seems that everyone knows that they are harmful and can accurately state the harmful components of cigarettes. However, due to the backwardness of science and technology, people first learned that nicotine was an ingredient in tobacco leaves. Naturally, nicotine became the eternal sinner in people's minds.

With the continuous advancement of science, people have learned that cigarettes not only contain nicotine, but also a large amount of tar, as well as a large amount of harmful gases produced during the ignition process. The most toxic are tar and carbon monoxide. People have gradually deepened their research on nicotine and realized that nicotine is not the culprit of death caused by cigarettes. In particular, relevant reports in the Hong Kong Wen Wei Po gave a correct conclusion about nicotine.

The Hong Kong Wen Wei Po reported: Trace amounts of nicotine do not cause direct harm to the human body. Clinical studies have shown that nicotine has the potential to become an effective drug for treating Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and depression. Research results published by a US research institute show that nicotine helps the body burn fat. Statistics released by the agency show a strong correlation between the decline in the number of smokers and the increase in the number of obese people.

At the same time, nicotine is not only found in tobacco leaves, but also in the fruits of many Solanaceae plants. For example, tomatoes, wolfberries and other plants contain nicotine. However, these vegetables and medicinal herbs are recognized as healthy foods that are beneficial to the human body. If nicotine is really that harmful, then people who have eaten tomatoes are probably poisoned.

Cancer culprit

Conclusions of the study by the US FDA and the Swedish Ministry of Health:

Tar is the main culprit of cancer, carbon monoxide is the most harmful!

Widely recognized

In the early 1990s, the Swedish Ministry of Health successfully developed a "nicotine replacement therapy smoking cessation patch" to solve the problem of officers and soldiers not being able to smoke on submarines. At the same time, the number of smokers in Sweden dropped sharply, from 42% of the total population to 20%.

Before it was discovered that tar and the nitrosamines and benzopyrene in tar were the main carcinogens in tobacco, a popular misconception was that nicotine was the main harmful substance in tobacco.

In 1993, the U.S. Department of Health introduced "nicotine replacement therapy". In less than two years, 50 million people successfully quit smoking.

On September 28, 1995, the U.S. FDA Nonprescription Drugs Committee and the Drugs Abuse Advisory Committee held a joint meeting, and both parties agreed that nicotine prescription drugs "are safe and effective when used according to the instructions." They all agreed that there was no need to worry about the risk of drug abuse and dependence caused by this product, and pointed out that the main carcinogenic components in tobacco are tar, and carbon monoxide is the most harmful.

In 1996, the World Health Organization recommended the use of "nicotine replacement therapy" to quit smoking to countries around the world, and suggested that it be included in national health insurance plans. "Nicotine replacement therapy" is the only safe and effective way to control smoking. On February 28, 2005, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, the world's first convention aimed at restricting global tobacco and tobacco products, officially came into effect. It is the first legally binding international public health treaty reached under the auspices of the World Health Organization and the first worldwide multilateral agreement on tobacco. To date, more than 170 countries around the world have signed the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.

Everyone must be aware of the harm that tobacco does to us in a timely manner, especially those who have the habit of smoking, especially male friends, should have the awareness of quitting smoking. Smoking is very harmful to us. It can also cause our families to often be exposed to secondhand smoke. Not only should we consider our own health, but also the health of our family. We should quit smoking as soon as possible.