NICOTINE DEPENDENCE AND EFFECTIVENESS OF NICOTINE REPLACEMENT THERAPY (NRT) AMONG TOBACCO USERS VISITING A HOSPITAL.

Dr. Manmeet Kour, Dr. Anshuman Dwivedi, Dr. Nida Afroz

Abstract


The major cause of cardiovascular diseases, respiratory diseases and cancer is smoking. Effective treatment is needed to help smokers stop
smoking in order to overcome this public health burden. Behavioral support along with Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) has been proven to
be effective in helping a wide range of smokers to quit. Keeping this in mind a study was programmed in the hospital comprising of 317 patients
with a positive history of tobacco smoking. The patients were evaluated using Fagerstorm Nicotine Dependence Test (FNDT) and willing patients
were prescribed with Nicotine Gums with behavioral management. Depression, Anxiety, Stress Score (DASS 42) was also assessed before and
after the therapy. And a conclusion was made that NRTs are very effective in reducing the withdrawal symptoms like Depression, anxiety & stress
levels among those who are willing to quit tobacco and thus helpful in tobacco cessation.
KEY POINTS:
Ÿ Through this study we get to know that after using the nicotex gums which are a form of NRT the DASS 42 score decreases which implies that
the withdrawal symptoms get reduced and also the patients were able to quit tobacco habit completely.
Ÿ Besides the improvement in the DASS score the main lack in this study was that very less people agreed with the Nicotine replacement therapy.


Keywords


NRT (Nicotine Replacement Therapy), FNDT (Fagerstorm Nicotine Dependence Test), DASS (Depression Anxiety Stress Score)

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