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Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) is a medically approved way to treat people with tobacco use disorder by taking nicotine through means other than tobacco. [6] It is used to help with quitting smoking or stopping chewing tobacco. [1] [7] It increases the chance of quitting tobacco smoking by about 55%. [8]
The WHO Report of the Global Tobacco Epidemic: The MPOWER Package was the first in a series of WHO reports to track the status of the tobacco epidemic and the impact of interventions to stop it. [4] The report was launched at a news conference by Margaret Chan, Director-General of WHO with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on 7 February ...
Smokeless tobacco is a tobacco product that is used by means other than smoking. [1] Their use involves chewing, sniffing, or placing the product between gum and the cheek or lip. [1] Smokeless tobacco products are produced in various forms, such as chewing tobacco, snuff, snus, and dissolvable tobacco products. [2]
Smoking cessation, usually called quitting smoking or stopping smoking, is the process of discontinuing tobacco smoking. [1] Tobacco smoke contains nicotine, which is addictive and can cause dependence. [2] [3] As a result, nicotine withdrawal often makes the process of quitting difficult.
The consumption of tobacco products and its harmful effects affect both smokers and non-smokers, [9] and is a major risk factor for six of the eight leading causes of deaths in the world, including respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, cerebrovascular diseases, periodontal diseases, teeth decay and loss, over 20 different types or subtypes of cancers, strokes, several debilitating ...
Using chewing tobacco can cause minor health effects such as dental disease, cardiovascular disease, asthma, and deformities in the female reproductive system. [15] It also raises the risk of fatal coronary artery disease, fatal stroke and non-fatal ischaemic heart disease. [16] [17] Quitting chewing tobacco use is as challenging as smoking ...
Nicotine is an addictive substance found most commonly in tobacco and tobacco products including cigarettes, cigars, chewing tobacco, e-cigarette liquid, pipe tobacco, snus, snuff, and nicotine medications such as nicotine gum. Withdrawal is the body’s reaction to not having the nicotine it had become accustomed to.
Nicotine gum is a chewing gum containing a small dose of nicotine polacrilex. [1] It is classified as a short-acting (also called fast-acting) form of NRT because it relieves the cravings and symptoms that occur with smoking cessation more quickly than a long-acting NRT (i.e., the nicotine patch).