Nicotine Replacement Therapy for Smoking Cessation-An Overview

Tobacco products are products made of leaf tobacco and contain the highly addictive ingredient, nicotine. Tobacco use is one of the main risk factors for cancer, cardiovascular diseases and lung diseases. Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) help the tobacco users to quit the usage of tobacco products. They provide nicotine to the tobacco users thus temporarily replace much of the nicotine from cigarettes to decrease motivation to smoke and nicotine withdrawal symptoms, thus easing the transition from cigarette smoking to complete abstinence. Tobacco users may quit tobacco without using NRT, but most of those who attempt quitting do not succeed on the first try. NRT only deals with the physical dependence. It’s not meant to be the only thing you use to help you quit smoking. Nicotine replacement therapy along with behavioral counselling help the persons who find difficult to quit the habit. Hence, a review was done about the different types of nicotine replacement therapies.