Smoking Cessation

Smoking cessation – what are the benefits?

If you stop smoking, you will dramatically reduce your risk of cancer (including those of the lungs, throat, mouth, bladder and cervix), as well as your risk of stroke, high blood pressure, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, kidney failure, impotence, infertility, and asthma.

However long you've been smoking for, if you quit smoking you will significantly improve your health, and some of the benefits will become apparent within a few days. For instance, your blood pressure, and the levels of oxygen and carbon monoxide in your blood will return to normal levels within just 72 hours of stopping. You should also find that your breathing improves and that you suffer fewer coughs.

How can I quit smoking?

Smoking cessation is not easy, but there is a lot of support available to help you quit smoking, including the NHS's Quit Kit which provides lots of help and advice. Many of the smoking cessation aids work by supplying your body with the nicotine that it would normally get from smoking, in a different form such as in a chewing gum, a patch, a tablet, or an inhaler.

Many people now use Champix or Zyban to help them to stop smoking. These pills work in a different way from simple nicotine replacement and can be a highly effective aid to smoking cessation. Champix is the most effective smoking cessation aid available. Champix reduces the nicotine cravings that drive you to smoke by stimulating the receptors in your brain which register nicotine. Champix also desensitization these receptors, so in future when you smoke you do not experience the pleasurable 'buzz' that you normally associate with smoking.

Zyban can double your chances of smoking cessation, by reducing your cravings. It does this by increasing the amount of dopamine and noradrenaline (two chemicals which affect your mood) in your system. Both of these so-called "stop smoking pills" are now available to buy online in the UK.

If you are seeking help to stop smoking, pills and medicines can be a useful aid, and TrustedMeds can prescribe them to you if they are suitable in your case. Based in the UK, TrustedMeds' free online consultation will enable our registered doctor to provide you with the treatment that is right for you, and we guarantee complete discretion and speedy delivery.