NEW Resources to Help People Quit Smoking

CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health (OSH) has recently released some new web content related to medicines to help people quit smoking. The new pages help people who want to quit smoking to select a quit-smoking medicine, and  learn how to use the 7 FDA-approved medicines to increase their likelihood of quitting for good. These pages can be accessed via the Learn About Quit-Smoking Medicines web page.

 

We hope the new web content helps visitors understand more about FDA-approved quit-smoking medicines (pros, cons, and potential side effects). It also has examples of how their past experiences or preferences might suggest specific medicine choices that could help them quit smoking for good. Detailed critical information on how to use the medicines successfully is included in the web content
An additional page focusing on 7 Common Withdrawal Symptoms and how they can be managed was published as well. Whether or not someone uses a medicine to try to quit smoking, these tips can help increase the likelihood of success.   The new content is based on findings from Smoking Cessation: A Report of the Surgeon General (Chapter 6) and FDA material on individual FDA-approved quit-smoking medicines.   We hope that you and others who visit the site will benefit from this information about quit-smoking medicines.   Quitting smoking is one of the most important actions people can take to improve their health. This is true regardless of their age or how long they have been smoking.   For more information about quitting smoking, visit cdc.gov/quit.

 

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