Hospital smoking cessation clinics will help to quit smoking through methods such as behavioral and cognitive changes and medication.
1. Comprehensive methods of behavioral and cognitive change
(1) Stimulus control: Using specific scenarios or stimuli to help individuals develop good smoking cessation habits.
(2) Relaxation training: learning to consciously regulate or control one’s own psycho-physiological activities according to a certain practice program, and regulating those functions that have been disturbed by stressful stimuli.
2. Pharmacotherapy
(1) Nicotine replacement: provide nicotine to the body to replace or partially replace nicotine, and reduce nicotine withdrawal symptoms.
(2) Bupropion extended-release: an antidepressant that may inhibit norepinephrine and dopamine reuptake and block nicotinic acetylcholine receptors.
(3) Varenicline: a new non-nicotine smoking cessation drug. It relieves cravings and withdrawal symptoms after stopping smoking and also reduces the pleasure of smoking.
The two work better together. The medication should be used under a doctor’s supervision.