Combination of behavioral therapy and varenicline for smoking cessation: Time to beat nicotine
India is the second largest tobacco consumer and the third largest tobacco producer in the world. The current trends of tobacco use in India includes 1 million deaths per year, and the problem is worsening, and also, tobacco use will cause 13% of deaths in India by 2022. To control this number, it i...
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| author | Avnica Agarwal Ankita Goyal Saurabh Singh Gaurav Gupta |
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| description | India is the second largest tobacco consumer and the third largest tobacco producer in the world. The current trends of tobacco use in India includes 1 million deaths per year, and the problem is worsening, and also, tobacco use will cause 13% of deaths in India by 2022. To control this number, it is an alarming situation to work on the main etiology. Smoking cessation programs are considered very useful in helping tobacco users to quit, as it is a very difficult addiction to break and effective approaches are required. So, authors reported a case of 61-year-old male patient who was a chronic smoker and used to smoke 20–25 cigarettes per day. He started noticing the ill effects of tobacco in the body, so he finally decided to seek help from doctor. His habit reduced to half in few days, and finally he completely quitted smoking with the help of behavioral therapy and pharmacotherapy. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-52abcf0e3b9447228a6678631622dff02022-12-22T01:30:39ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care2249-48632022-01-011163342334510.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_2069_21Combination of behavioral therapy and varenicline for smoking cessation: Time to beat nicotineAvnica AgarwalAnkita GoyalSaurabh SinghGaurav GuptaIndia is the second largest tobacco consumer and the third largest tobacco producer in the world. The current trends of tobacco use in India includes 1 million deaths per year, and the problem is worsening, and also, tobacco use will cause 13% of deaths in India by 2022. To control this number, it is an alarming situation to work on the main etiology. Smoking cessation programs are considered very useful in helping tobacco users to quit, as it is a very difficult addiction to break and effective approaches are required. So, authors reported a case of 61-year-old male patient who was a chronic smoker and used to smoke 20–25 cigarettes per day. He started noticing the ill effects of tobacco in the body, so he finally decided to seek help from doctor. His habit reduced to half in few days, and finally he completely quitted smoking with the help of behavioral therapy and pharmacotherapy.http://www.jfmpc.com/article.asp?issn=2249-4863;year=2022;volume=11;issue=6;spage=3342;epage=3345;aulast=Agarwaladdictionchampixnicotinesmoking cessationvarenicline |
| spellingShingle | Avnica Agarwal Ankita Goyal Saurabh Singh Gaurav Gupta Combination of behavioral therapy and varenicline for smoking cessation: Time to beat nicotine Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care addiction champix nicotine smoking cessation varenicline |
| title | Combination of behavioral therapy and varenicline for smoking cessation: Time to beat nicotine |
| title_full | Combination of behavioral therapy and varenicline for smoking cessation: Time to beat nicotine |
| title_fullStr | Combination of behavioral therapy and varenicline for smoking cessation: Time to beat nicotine |
| title_full_unstemmed | Combination of behavioral therapy and varenicline for smoking cessation: Time to beat nicotine |
| title_short | Combination of behavioral therapy and varenicline for smoking cessation: Time to beat nicotine |
| title_sort | combination of behavioral therapy and varenicline for smoking cessation time to beat nicotine |
| topic | addiction champix nicotine smoking cessation varenicline |
| url | http://www.jfmpc.com/article.asp?issn=2249-4863;year=2022;volume=11;issue=6;spage=3342;epage=3345;aulast=Agarwal |
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