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Tapered approach?

deleted_user
deleted_user
I ran across an interesting article this moring about tapering off nicotine:

" . . . The key to the clinical trials success was providing smokers with cigarettes of gradually decreasing nicotine content over a number of weeks. If such cigarettes were federally mandated, smokers would find it easier to quit, and more young smokers could avoid addiction, according to the scientists. Tobacco company products marketed as low-nicotine alternatives, in fact, do not change the level of nicotine taken in by smokers, they added. . . ."

Here's a link:

http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/tapered-approach-smoking-slashes-nicotine-addiction-14810.html

Think it could work?
deleted_user
deleted_user
Thats interesting, thanks for sharing. Have a nice week end
deleted_user
deleted_user
I wouldn't trust anything you put to your lips and light.
LankyYankee
LankyYankee
The tobacco industry has been lying to us for decades so I have a very tough time swallowing their so called evidence. Nicotine is nicotine is nicotine and nicotine is poison. The only successful way to quit is to simply not smoke.
deleted_user
deleted_user
I'm with you on this one Cheryl
deleted_user
deleted_user
YEP!
shevie
shevie
The theory is similar to NRT, but with the smoke and habitual actions still present. Plus, there is no way to regulate the number of cigs you smoke. Other studies have shown that when the per cigarette nicotine level is reduced, the smoker smokes more cigs to maintain the addiction's requirement.

Shevie
Quit May, 2005
deleted_user
deleted_user
I've read the same thing as Shevie, and have also heard that smokers trying to "lighten" their smokes inhale more deeply, more frequently, and hold the smoke in longer.
Tselani
Tselani
Nope! It wouldn't work for me! Nicotine -- even the tiniest bit -- would keep the addiction alive and well in my body. Til death do us part. . .
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