What is the state of the art, medically soeaking, in terms of quitting smoking?
2026-05-01 03:10 UTC
Replies (12)
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@UnrefinedChihuahua@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-05-02 11:11
The patch + realizing how bad I actually smelled as a smoker. Not just after having a smoke; all the time. All of my clothes, even clean, smelled like smoke. My car reeked. I was nose blind to all of it. 2.5 years since I quit and I swear I can smell a smoker a mile away and it turns my stomach. Smokers: we really stink, bad.
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@Formfiller@lemmy.world 2026-05-01 10:59
I tried for years. I finally went cold turkey after finding this website. It really helped to learn that all nicotine is out of your system in 72 hours. After that it’s all mental. I basically just stayed in my pj’s in bed for that 72 hours and it got easier everyday after that. He has a recording for everyday of your quit and every struggle https://whyquit.com/joel/
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@SaneMartigan@lemmy.world 2026-05-01 03:14
Are you asking "What's the best way to quit smoking?"? There's no one size fits all solution. Keep trying methods until one sticks. It took me a hundred goes to quit.
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@HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social 2026-05-01 08:08
I used spite, self discipline and being angry at everything, including the tobacco manufacturers and the government raising taxes on it. I quit cold turkey. I was alone for a few days, just sat at home being all huffy and puffy and then I got over myself. I think the self discipline is the most important one. Just get a hold of yourself and do it, stop being a wuss about it.
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@Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 2026-05-01 03:20
Moat effective seems to be weaning off, using the replacement products and slowly reducing nicotine dosages. Though people are different, have to use lots of trial and error and try again and again. I used the least likely method of price increase to quit cold turkey.
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@Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-05-01 08:02
Waiter, there's an ad in my AskLemmy 🤢
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@Buffalox@lemmy.world 2026-05-01 07:43
I have seen many studies that show e-cig has higher success rate than anything else, both short and long term. One of the reasons is that smoking is not just an addiction it is also a habit. With e-cig you can break the addiction, while still performing the habitual behavior, and that has been shown to help ease the cravings. No fiddling with your hands when the cravings come, and you even have the calming pleasure of the vapor cloud that mimic smoke visually. The bases of e-cig like vegetable glycerine and propylene glycol, even have the advantage of helping to clean out the lungs from smoking, so your lungs recover faster, while still being considered extremely safe to inhale after more than 70 years of research. Also using the e-cig as a 2 step solution has higher success rate than anything else, again because you can keep performing the habitual ritual, while stepping down the nicotine. So you are free of any dependency on either the e-cig or other nicotine products or medicine. e-cig is one of the cheapest yet most effective options, and finally e-cig is the least stressful and among the safest options. Champix may be among the better options, but it is a way more serious change of the brain chemistry than e-cigs, and may have mood altering effects and cause depression and/or aggression. These are symptoms can also occur when going cold turkey, problem is that Champix does not help against it as effectively as e-cigs do. Champix helps with the cravings, but not other side effects of quitting. It is also curious how Champix is taken for 3 months, when that is one of the major crisis points for smokers to revert. This is a clear recipe for making people revert after having used Champix, which my tinfoil hat tells me is so they have higher chance of selling the same "cure" multiple times to the same person. Disclaimer: I am not a professional, but I have studied these issues very thoroughly, and learned how to read scientific papers to a reasonable degree, to investigate and better understand the issue at the scientific source and better understand criticism of some research papers, rather than just sensationalist journalistic interpretation. The above are all points I have learned through those studies. Except of course the suspicion of Champix treatment ending just a little bit to soon to sell the treatment multiple times.
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@A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 2026-05-01 05:56
Have you answered your own question with that brand name? Was dropping that brand name the point of your post?
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@disregardable@lemmy.zip 2026-05-01 03:34
The medicine, Varenicline. I saw a pharmacist on YT that said that, I don't know.
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@neidu3@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-01 10:31
Seconding champix. I was on it, and it really helped, but one round (two weeks) wasn't quite enough, and when I went in to get enough for a longer treatment, champix had been pulled off the market, lol. It's now back again with a slightly different formula, so I'll give it a new go.
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@sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz 2026-05-01 03:46
> Champix There we go. Something helpful to recommend :) Added
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@Buffalox@lemmy.world 2026-05-01 08:33
>I believe there are some issues for people with mental health concerns due to the reward pathway fuckery, It appears that people with mental health issues have way more problems to quit smoking than people on average. The burning of tobacco makes the nicotine combine with other compounds in the tobacco to form MAO inhibitor effect. Which people with mental problems become way more dependent on than other people. For these people e-cigs have been shown to help a lot, despite they don't have the MAO effect, they help by limiting the abstinence of not smoking by providing nicotine, and probably by providing a reasonably strong placebo effect from "feeling" like smoking in many ways. For some people with mental problems, smoking can often be seen as an attempt of self treatment.