On the eve of 'World No Tobacco Day', MiD DAY tells you how to kick the butt. Experts believe that therapies like Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) help deal with withdrawal symptoms, which one suffers when attempting to quit tobacco.


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When an individual tries to quit smoking one experiences withdrawal symptoms like irritability, insomnia, headaches, constipation, gas and stomach pain among other symptoms, but medicos as well as those who have been able to quit smoking agree that experiencing withdrawal symptoms is better.

"Once the person overcomes the psychosocial need to smoke, nicotine dependence is eliminated by successively reducing the dose of nicotine replacement. Globally several forms of NRT have been marketed, including the nicotine patch, nicotine inhaler, nasal spray, gum, sublingual tablet, and lozenge. As a method of delivering nicotine into the bloodstream, NRT is far less dangerous as compared to tobacco smoking," said Dr P C Gupta, Director of Healis-Sekhsaria Institute for Public Health Mumbai.

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