Tobacco Addiction: Quitting Smoking Through Systemic Approach

8. Quitting Smoking and Beating Nicotine Addiction

Reducing tobacco addiction through tobacco product regulation.

Tobacco product regulation has the potential to help reduce tobacco attributable disease by reducing the toxicity of these products and by reducing the prevalence of tobacco use and addiction.

Global effects of smoking, of quitting, and of taxing tobacco.

From the Center for Global Health Research, St. Michael’s Hospital and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto (P.J.); and the Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, Richard Doll Building, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom (R.P.). Address reprint requests to Dr. Jha at [email protected].

Quitting smokeless tobacco

How can a person get help quitting the use of smokeless tobacco? All of the resources in this general area are geared toward helping smokers stop smoking, but a smokeless tobacco nicotine addict does not have a similar usage ritual as a smoker, but does have a similar, or worse, addiction than a smoker because the nicotine absorption levels are many times greater. Any suggestions as to how a sm...

Quitting smoking: the benefits