Kristine Carabeo, Quit Coach, Service Delivery:   A recent report says that smokers should never use nicotine replacement therapy (NRT), which includes products like nicotine patches, gums, inhalants, lozenges and pills, or else they will never quit smoking. When first seeing that headline, I thought that maybe the article would encourage more people to quit cold turkey (no quit smoking aids or medications whatsoever), which is one of many methods that people can use to quit. But ... [More]

Allegra Wiborg, Quit Coach, Service Delivery:   Occasionally participants in our tobacco cessation program will tell me they don’t want to use the patch or nicotine gum to quit tobacco. Some have pretty strong feelings about it, too: “If I’m quitting nicotine—why would I want to add it to my body?! No thanks.” I can see where these participants are coming from. Isn’t that like pouring gasoline on the fire? I too was confused about how nicotine replacement therapy worked until I be... [More]