Do you use any alternative or non-FDA-approved treatments for smoking cessation?  

For a non-medication, non-nicotine option, NADA auricular acupuncture has had some evidence-based success in tobacco cessation. It can also be somewhat helpful for anxiety and insomnia. The results are not always mind-blowing, but the risks are also not high so, in general, the outcome tends to be w...

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...

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...