Cessation Medication Dosing Guidelines Lsuhospitals Form

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welcome back in this video we'll talk about the medications we use to help people stop smoking the first line and the medication we always start with is veroniclean it's a partial nicotine receptor agonist which means that it triggers the same receptors smoking does and the good thing about it is that it has a very long half-life so will keep the nicotine receptors triggered for very long time so people taking this medication will not feel the need or craving for smoking they usually do and that will continue until the half of the medication passes this is also excellent for preventing withdrawal symptoms as chronic smokers are dependent in nicotine and withdrawal symptoms with craving is the most common cause for relapse of course the withdrawal symptoms of smoking include strong craving mood disturbances such as anger or sadness or irritability anxiety and also weight loss if somebody takes the medication too much basically overdosing they will have severe nausea vomiting and sleep d