Archive for November 2011
Quit Smoking Drugs and Products – How They Can Help You Quit
The truth is that if you eventually stop smoking, you may need some stop smoking group therapy to help with the psychological addiction to smoking. Talking to others about your smoking problems and listening to theirs will do you a great deal of help.
Added to the psychological stop smoking treatment, you may also want to try a number of drugs that can help you break your smoking habit. Some of these drugs work by helping you deal with the severe withdrawal symptoms from tobacco smoking that tend to hit within the second and third days of your quit smoking program.
These symptoms include but are not limited to relentless headaches and nausea. Even with the stop smoking drugs like bupropin, sold as Zyban in the United States, you may still have trouble weathering the storm; but without the antidepressant medications to stop the smoking habit, you may as well pack it up because you will not likely get very far trying to stop your smoking. Read the rest of this entry »
Quit Smoking – Common Side Effects of Stop Smoking Drugs
Smoking cessation treatment is able to help smokers to get rid of their smoking habit. Being a smoker is not a good thing at all because it is addictive, wasteful and deteriorates one’s health. Breaking the smoking habit can takes a long time to accomplish. Nonetheless, this particular treatment has some disadvantages. It is because that some medicines used during the therapy might be bringing side effects to the consumers. Therefore, most common side effects are including:
- Diarrhea
- Gingivitis
- Chest pain
- Back pain
- Headache and dizziness
- Polyuria (excessive urination)
- Menstrual disorder on women
- Hypertension
- Weight gain and the lowering of blood sugar levels
- Anxiety, depression and emotional disorder
What causes the side effects in the body?The side effects result from the chemical reactions in the body. After years of smoking, nicotine (a common drug compound that is found in cigarettes) is able to penetrate the body system. Thus, after breaking the smoking habit, the body reacts as if the body is absorbing nicotine. Such reaction of the body is normal as it undergoes the process of cleansing itself and should not be a major problem to the smoker. Read the rest of this entry »
FDA Warning on Stop-Smoking Drugs
It is not easy to quit smoking. We all know people who have struggled with their nicotine addiction and their smoking habit. And now we are learning that some products that are marketed to help smokers quit are now going to carry labels with their own set of health warnings.
The following article by TODD NEALE of MedPage Today was published on ABCNews.com July 1, 2009:
‘The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it will immediately require boxed warnings about the risk of serious neuropsychiatric symptoms on the packaging of two popular smoking cessation drugs — varenicline (Chantix) and buproprion (Zyban, Wellbutrin and generics).Reports of behavioral changes, depressed mood, agitation, hostility and suicidal thoughts and behavior associated with use of the drugs have been submitted to the FDA’s adverse event reporting system.
Throughout the marketing history of the drugs, there have been 98 suicides and 188 attempted suicides in varenicline users and 14 suicides and 17 attempted suicides in buproprion users, the agency reported.” Read the rest of this entry »