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Smoking Cessation a Challenge for Chronic Smokers
Published 2020 · B. Hoey
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Abstract
This article is on smoking cessation a challenge for chronic smokers. Smoking cessation is the process of discontinuing tobacco smoking. Tobacco smoke contains nicotine, which is addictive and can cause dependence. Nicotine withdrawal often makes the process of quitting difficult. Tobacco smoke contains a deadly mix of more than 7,000 chemicals; hundreds are harmful, and about 70 can cause cancer. Smoking increases the risk for serious health problems, many diseases, and death. People who stop smoking greatly reduce their risk for disease and early death. Although the health benefits are greater for people who stop at earlier ages, there are benefits at any age. You are never too old to quit. There are effective treatments that support tobacco cessation, including both behavioral therapies and FDA-approved medications. FDA-approved pharmacotherapies include various forms of nicotine replacement therapy as well as bupropion and varenicline. The number of people killed each year by tobacco will double over the next few decades unless urgent action is taken. But just as the epidemic of tobacco-caused disease is manmade, people acting through their governments and civil society can reverse the epidemic. Ethnically tailored smoking cessation services are needed for this group of smokers. Training of traditional healers to identify and offer ethnically tailored smoking cessation services may be considered.
Chronic smoking is difficult to quit, but quitting can greatly reduce the risk of serious health problems and early death.
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