Increase in the number of anti-smoking products sold

Although there is a very wide range of products, patches and chewing-gums are the most sold, because they help to eliminate anxiety

One of the many chemists in Aguilas.

To quit smoking is a habit that every year, during these winter holidays, is a popular New Year´s Resolution. If we also add that this has been the year of the new law known as “anti-smoking” the result is a very high number of smokers visiting their local chemist looking for help and advice about the different methods to quit.

Local chemists have declared that “since we started hearing comments about this new law, there has been in increase in the interest for all those drugs that help get over the addiction. Actually, more than 30% of all questions we receive are about this” they declared in Farmacia Santamaría.

Besides, the owner of the pharmacy Maroto, adds that “some months ago, these products were barely sold but, for the last weeks they have noted a significant increase in sales. And the truth is that, even though it is very difficult to abandon the dependence on nicotine, there are a wide range of products on the market that can help overcome the abstinence syndrome, help ignore the “craving” or desire of lighting another cigarette that affects ex. smokers during those first weeks without nicotine.

We are able to find products and treatments without nicotine and also, products known as “substitute therapy”, amongst them patches and nicotine chewing gums. Smoking is a habit that we adquire not only because of its psychological dependency but also because of the physical dependency on nicotine.

Pharmacological help

Smoking is a habit tha we adquire not only because of its psychological dependency but also because of the physical dependency on nicotine. For these reasons, it is very important that any treatment to help abandon this addiction should be suprervised by a respiratory specialist that willprescribe the most suitable treatment that will depend on the level of dependency on nicotine of each person that is in the process of abandoning cigarettes.