Do you use any alternative or non-FDA-approved treatments for smoking cessation?
Are any effective options available beyond nicotine replacement therapy, varenicline, or bupropion?
Answer from: at Community Practice
I've never prescribed anything beyond those three mentioned. I did have a patient with GAD who was anxious about quitting and finding better treatment for the GAD gave her the confidence to use nicotine replacement to successfully quit.
I have had more than one patient who was prescribed naltrexone...
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at Private Practice, General Psychiatry You might want to consider N-acetyl cysteine. It d...
at Maine Medical Center Outpatient Adult Psychiatry I run into tobacco smoking a fair amount in people...
Different forms of nicotine may be easier or harder to quit. One strategy is to get patients to slowly shift from smoking cigarettes to using tobacco-free nicotine pouches (not gum or lozenges, which have slow PK). Once the ritual of smoking is divorced from nicotine, my patients have an easier time...
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at Array Behavioral Care Are there mouth cancer risks with the pouches?
You might want to consider N-acetyl cysteine. It d...
I run into tobacco smoking a fair amount in people...