In fact , they can , there are a couple of methods that have been shown to help people quit . Some are behavioral and some are pharmacologic . I just wanna touch on the behavioral ones first because it turns out that there's a quite powerful method for quitting nicotine ingestion by way of cigarette smoking , which also carries over to vaping .
Only 5% of people succeed in doing that . And even among those many end up relapsing later , there are a couple pharmacologic approaches . One of the main ones that's received a lot of attention in recent years is Bryon sometimes referred to by its commercial name wellbutrin .
It was published just a couple of years ago in 2020 . And the title of the article is pharmacologic approach to smoking cessation and updated review for daily clinical practice . And even though this is mainly focused on smoking cessation , uh it carries over quite nicely to vaping and it details a number of statistics , you know , the fact that every year 700,000 or more people die because of smoking related diseases .
What I mean by that is people using a nicotine patch or nicotine gum or other nicotine delivery device that is not cigarettes and not vaping in order to maintain levels of nicotine in their bloodstream , which of course means maintain levels of nicotine in their brain and body to the same extent that they would if they were smoking or vaping , maybe even gradually taking down the total amount of nicotine in their brain and body by reducing the number or size of nicotine gum pieces that they ingest each day or keeping the patch on for a shorter amount of time or getting a lower dose patch that releases less nicotine total or overtime . All of those approaches have been shown to be reasonably successful . I get to the numbers in a few minutes but reasonably successful in allowing people to quit smoking or vaping again .
So it's very closely aligned with if not exceeding the success rate . With brr of course , there are other pharmacologic approaches to quitting smoking or vaping . All of them generally circle back to increasing dopamine and or norepinephrine in order to offset some of the withdrawal symptoms of smoking sensation or vaping cessation .
