I get to the numbers in a few minutes but reasonably successful in allowing people to quit smoking or vaping again . Most of the data is on cigarette smoking because vaping is a relatively new phenomenon . Although quite troublingly , it's a very rapidly increasing behavior , especially in the young population .
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 . A very common approach for people to try and quit smoking or vaping is to use nicotine itself to try and prevent people from seeking nicotine through a cigarette or a Vape pen . 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 .
Vaping is actually harder to quit than cigarette smoking for most people . Does that mean that cigarette smoking is fairly easy to quit for most people .
So please check that out if you're somebody who's trying to quit ingesting nicotine by any of the four methods that I just described . Now , of course , there are other methods that people have used to successfully quit smoking or vaping or other forms of nicotine delivery . And there's actually an excellent review on this topic .
And oftentimes people are wearing them at night as well . Uh This is relevant because if people are ingesting nicotine by way of smoking and vaping , you know , hopefully they're not waking up in the middle of the night just to smoke or vapor , believe it or not , some people do that . But of course , while people are asleep , they are not smoking or vaping , they always tell you don't fall asleep with a cigarette in your mouth , you burn the whole house down , but exceedingly rare to have people are smoking in their sleep .
