Stop smoking and live longer.

Five medications have been approved by the U. S. food and Drug administration to help you kick the smoking habit

  

Smoking cigarettes increases the risk of nonfatal and fatal heart attacks in both women and men. Smoking also increases the risk of a 2nd or subsequent heart attack among heart attack survivors. Women who take oral contraceptives and smoke as well have an even bigger risk than smoking alone.

The good news is that if you quit smoking your risk of having a heart attack is greatly reduced. Twelve months after you quit smoking, the risk then drops to about1/2 that of current smokers and slowly returns to normal in persons without heart disease. Even among persons with heart disease, the risk also diminishes sharply twelve months after quitting and it continues to drop over time but the risk does not return to normal.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the following 5 medications to help you stop smoking and reduce the urge to smoke. They are:

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Bupropion SR - available by prescription

Nicotine gum - available over-the-counter

Nicotine inhaler - available by prescription

Nicotine nasal spray - available by prescription

Nicotine patch - available by prescription and over-the-counter

All of these medicines will more or less double your chances of quitting and quitting for good.

 

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