PSYC 314 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Nicotine Replacement Therapy, Metered-Dose Inhaler, Nicotine Patch
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Most people actually quit on their own! Brief clinical interventions: for example, when a health care professional takes 10 minutes or less to deliver advice and assistance before quitting. Counseling and psychotherapy: cognitive-behavioural cessation therapies involving stimulus control; reinforcement; cognitive reframing . Nicotine replacement products - over-the-counter (nicotine patch, gum, lozenge etc) Prescription non-nicotine medications (eg. , zyban/welbutrin (help with mood and anxiety associated with nicotine, || chantix (preventing nicotine from binding;; blocking nicotine receptors) Brief clinical interventions: public health service smoking cessation guidelines for health care providers: the 5 as . Ask : systematically identify all tobacco users at every visit. Advise : strongly urge all tobacco users to quit! Assess : determine willingness to make a quit attempt. 1) tell them the risks, 2) what are the downsides, and 3) what"s good about stopping! Assist : aid the patient in quitting. You could provide them with all possibilities, like medications, or clinical interventions etc etc.
