| Drugs block the effect of withdrawal from the | | | | controversial use in this same department. |
| chemicals in tobacco and tobacco smoke. Some, like | | | | Basically, the biggest problem with smoking cessation |
| Scopolamine and Atarax, which block the brain | | | | drugs is the side effects that they have. The chief |
| nicotine receptors and ease your physical withdrawal | | | | side effect of such medications is dehydration. |
| pains as you try to stay off of the substance, are | | | | Others include nausea, sleeplessness or insomnia, |
| applied intravenously for best effect - the | | | | mood alterations, gas, constipation, headaches, allergic |
| Scopolamine Medicated Anticholinergic Receptor | | | | rashes, loss of taste, and a number of others. As a |
| Treatment, SMART, has been in use in that capacity | | | | result of the severity of some of these symptoms, |
| for years. | | | | many physicians actually question the efficacy of |
| Other types of drugs that help with quit smoking | | | | these drugs and would much rather have their quit |
| efforts include Chantix and Atropine, and a number | | | | smoking patients on any number of other stop |
| of other neurotransmitter drugs. Serotonin and | | | | smoking techniques. |
| norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors, SNRIs, are mostly | | | | But do smoking cessation drugs work? Statistics |
| also used as depression medications, but they do | | | | show that they do. The question is how badly do |
| have some application in helping people to quit | | | | you want to break the habit? Is it enough to put up |
| smoking, albeit under strict supervision. Drugs like | | | | with the side effects? If it is, you may as well just |
| venlafaxine or mirtazapine, which prevent the | | | | stay with any program or medication that you are |
| neurotransmitters serotonin and norephinephrine from | | | | placed on. |
| binding to nearby nerve cells, have found | | | | |