In May of 2006, the United States Food and Drug Administration approved the drug Chantix (varenicline tartrate) whose primary purpose the inhibition of receptors for nicotine in the human brain. Chantix has a two-fold role in the brain, it locates itself on the nicotine receptors in the brain and distributes results like nicotine, but at the same time, Chantix prevents nicotine itself from attaching to the nicotine receptors. The approach means no withdrawal symptoms occur and if the smoker goes back to smoking, they will not get the ”high? feeling which nicotine provides otherwise.

Chantix is produced and marketed by Pfizer while Glaxo Wellcome makes Zyban, a non nicotine smoking cessation medication also approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Zyban is the same drug as that marketed as an antidepressant aid under the trade moniker of Wellbutrin. Originally the FDA did not approve the drug at all, but it was reintroduced as an anti-depressant, then as a smoking cessation aid, when doctors noted that many of their patients using Wellbutrin were reducing smoking levels significantly.

Nicotine gums, patches and lozenges are also drug delivery systems for nicotine. The panel is still out regarding whether the use of these drugs can be properly considered as smoking cessation tools. Some would argue that changing delivery modes from smoke to oral ingestion of nicotine is not really solving the problem.

Long term success rates for smoking cessation drugs seem to be mixed. For one thing, it’s difficult to do scientific studies when the control group can tell whether or not they are receiving nicotine because of the physiological effects. Those in the control group usually refused to go on with the test.

Many people are more afraid of the cessation drugs that they are of the nicotine in the cigarettes; others just don’t have the motivation to quit yet. They still are convinced that smoking is pleasurable.

Until the proper preliminaries of determination to quit, understanding why one is smoking and why one should quit are internalized, smoking cessation drugs will not accomplish the task. The best success rate for permanently quitting smoking seems to still be quitting cold turkey, and that takes determination.

If the withdrawal symptoms are feared to the extent that quitting is forestalled, then probably the best choice is to use a mixture of methods, including that of smoking cessation drugs. In this way, the benefits of being smoke free will be applicable sooner.

The act of quitting smoking is not an easy task. Smoking is definitely one of the most addictive habits which humans can get entrapped by. Cessation of smoking causes the person both psychological and physical trauma.
One of the most recent advancements in the smoking cessation programs is the laser treatment. This treatment does not lecture the person as to how many cigarettes a person smokes or how long he has been smoking. it helps in achieving the goal of quitting the smoking habit.
Using this innovative cold laser therapy most of the smokers all around the world are quitting smoking. This therapy is known to have success rates of four to five times that of the other smoking cessation programs. Most of the smokers opt for this treatment as it is painless and is a quick resort to help quitting smoking. The laser therapy alleviates the withdrawal symptoms that surface when the person quits smoking the cigarette.
The method of laser therapy for the smokers who wish to quit smoking involves using a cold laser beam on the energy points of the body. The energy points are at a specific meridian and at the ear points. The laser technician focuses the laser beam on these areas which help in releasing the natural chemicals called endorphins. Along with the stimulation of the endorphin release, the laser also stimulates the body’s ability to detoxify the nicotine which has accumulated over the years of smoking. The endorphins have a calming and relaxing effect hence preventing the anxiety, depression and other withdrawal symptoms including craving.
The laser treatment does not burn the tissues of the smoker as it is a light beam of high wavelength and low energy, and isn’t powerful enough to burn the tissues. The biostimulation of the energy points is similar to acupuncture and hence no pain or heat is involved in the process. Most of the smokers say that the laser treatment has given them a fresh breath of air as they planned to quit using this method.
However, the laser therapy is currently undergoing clinical trials. There have been no formal studies conducted on the effectiveness of the laser therapy to help people quit smoking, though most of the smokers claim it is one of the safest and effective ways of quitting smoking. Even if the effects of the laser beam on the endorphins of the body is purely psychological, the fact that the endorphins are released can account for the positive effects of this treatment.

Much of the process of successful quit smoking techniques is due to planning and willpower. Yes, drugs can lessen some of the symptoms of withdrawal, but some people do not see the value of replacing one drug with another as is done with nicotine replacement therapy methods. In order to strengthen the ability to successfully get off and stay off nicotine and tobacco products, you may find that quit smoking hypnosis is very helpful.

The process can work either through the assistance of a trained professional therapist or hypnotist, or can rely on self-hypnosis techniques. CD’s to guide you through the process of self-hypnosis in order to quit smoking are readily available, and can be used in conjunction with other methods of smoking cessation for even high success rates.

In order to be successful, quit smoking hypnosis must deal with three aspects of smoking. Smoking is viewed as a pleasurable act, smoking is a habit, and smoking reduces stress.

Quit smoking hypnosis helps the would-be non smoker to view smoking as an unpleasant act, rather than one which brings pleasure. Most of us do not want to give up something that we see as bring pleasure into our lives, but what if your subconscious mind was reprogrammed to view the act of smoking as something distasteful. We would not want to continue doing something which is distasteful to us.

A quit smoking hypnosis CD will train the subconscious mind to see smoking as what it is?a bad habit. Hypnosis, whether self-administered or done by another, trains the mind to accept a different choice for reality in the individual.

The third aspect of the smoking addiction is the perception that smoking provides relaxation and reduces stress in the individual. Smokers often react to any minor crisis of life by lighting up, sitting back and taking a deep drag on the cigarette. They believe this act provides a relief to stress, but in fact, the belief is probably what causes the relief of stress, not the act of smoking. The use of a quit smoking hypnosis CD as a relaxation tool cannot be overestimated. In this aspect, the mind is not reprogrammed to say that cigarette smoking is stressful; the mind is taught to look at other effective means of relaxation.

By using all three channels of addiction control and elimination, quit smoking hypnosis has been extremely effective.