Seeing your GP is a great first step, they can talk you through the various treatments including nicotine replacement therapy (NRT), support groups and tips to change your behaviour
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It transcended mere smoking, evolving into a prominent social ritual, a symbol of hospitality, and a cherished method for relaxation and conversation
Smoking may be an effort to calm themselves down, reduce anxiety, make themselves feel relaxed, give themselves a break, or to self-medicate
Hugo Destaillats, an environmental chemist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory who wasnt involved with the work, calls the findings an interesting first step
adults over 21 who had experience with the product, including 300 current consumer nicotine gum purchasers (last product experience within the past month) and 200 former purchasers (last product experience 1 month to more than a year ago)