Treatment of tobacco dependence requires the scientific method – quit smoking – the pharmaceutical industries
Treatment of tobacco dependence requires the scientific method – quit smoking – the pharmaceutical industries
As we all know smoking is harmful to health. As a respiratory doctor, I usually come into contact with many patients, many of them are smoking-related disease, or even a very serious disease. I am in the process of diagnosis, are always urging patients to quit smoking, but also suggested that they go to smoking cessation clinic for specific advice, but often found seriously ill until they actually start to quit smoking, but too late. Why must we quit? What are the benefits of quitting smoking?
Life benefits of quitting According to statistics, can yield immediate health benefits of smoking cessation. 20 minutes to stop smoking, blood pressure, heart rate and peripheral circulation improvements; stop smoking 24 hours carbon monoxide levels decreased; to stop smoking for 48 hours, taste and smell improved; stop smoking 2 to 12 weeks, lung function improved by 30%; stop smoking 3 to 9 months, shortness of breath and cough decreased; stop smoking 1 year, myocardial infarction decreased by 50%; to stop smoking for 10 years Lung Cancer Risk decreased by 50%; to stop smoking for 15 years, the risk of myocardial infarction and stroke down to the level of non-smokers. Whenever you stop smoking, smokers will be longer than the life of continuing smokers. 1 pair of British male doctors carried out a 50-year study found that smokers and non smokers die earlier than average, about 10 years, 60,50,40 or 30 years of age quit smoking gain about 3,6 respectively, 9 or 10 years life expectancy.
Quit smoking can also improve the quality of life of individuals, for individuals and society at large, there are broader economic interests, such as non-smokers reduce the effects of passive smoking; public health and human resources conservation; community smoking caused disease, reducing health care expenditures; smoking-related diseases caused by the decrease absenteeism; smoking less so after the cleaning-related costs.
Thus, in terms of health or economic point of view, smoking cessation are imperative. Quitting smoking is the most economical life-saving interventions, quit smoking can reduce the incidence of disease and mortality, including respiratory diseases and Cancer , Stroke, Peripheral vascular disease, acute myocardial infarction, sudden death and so on. It also can reduce the economic losses for individual community.
The right way to quit smoking?? Doctor, drug treatment, psychological counseling three-pronged
There are so many benefits of quitting, some smokers to stop smoking after, you will find it is tiring. Research shows that to achieve long-term smokers will quit smoking simply by only 3%. Practice shows that to quit smoking, in addition to their will, also need to consult professional medical advice, medication, psychotherapy three-pronged approach. Particular medication, can help get rid of the total nicotine in tobacco dependence, it can greatly improve the success rate of smoking cessation. Authority of the “Chinese Journal of Smoking Cessation Guidelines,” also recommended the drug as a treatment for tobacco addiction.
Closely with doctors to use smoking cessation drugs
Mention drug use, some smokers may be concerned that drug use occurs in the smoking cessation process Adverse reactions . The so-called adverse drug reactions, mainly refers to the eligible drugs in the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, disease process, in the case of normal usage dosage appears unrelated to the purpose and drug adverse reactions.
Many medicines in the course of a variety of side effects may occur, in addition to the characteristics of drugs themselves, but also with the drug’s physical and health condition. Adverse events will be marked in the prospectus, to pay attention to reading, to enhance self-monitoring of medication, if adverse reactions, to take timely measures.
In drug manual, to prompt patients, manufacturers will add black box warning to alert after taking the form of possible adverse reactions, this is a common drug prompts, so long as attention is drawn specifically prompted the contents of the black box doctors remain true, good communication, by a doctor diagnosing a patient for use of the drug, under the guidance of a doctor can achieve security agents.
In fact, the quitting process, upset, irritability, anxiety, inability to concentrate … … sort of feeling, in medicine referred to as nicotine withdrawal syndrome, commonly known as smoking cessation syndrome. Syndrome is due to the occurrence of smoking cessation quit smoking during the rapid reduction of nicotine intake, reach the level required by the brain occurs. Quitting process, regardless of whether drugs are likely to quit syndrome, and the higher age smoke, to quit the performance of the more obvious withdrawal syndrome.
Be stated that smoking cessation syndrome and adverse drug reactions, both in
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