Nicotine Nasal Spray

March 1996 was when the nicotine nasal spray became available by prescription. It has become a popular means to quit smoking and has helped many to lose their addiction to cigarettes.

The nasal spray is available in a pump bottle which is sprayed into each nostril. If you decide to use the spray, then it is extremely important not to breathe at the same time you spray. This is because nicotine must be connected to the nasal wall.

When she is attached to the nasal wall that can be absorbed into the bloodstream. If you inhale the same time as the spray, nicotine will end in the throat and be swallowed. If nicotine is swallowed, the nasal spray will not work, because the acids in your stomach that are destroying the nicotine.

Start with 16-80 sprays per day, which is 8-40 doses. Each bottle of nasal spray contains 200 sprays. Therefore, you use one quarter to half of the bottle every day.

The spray can be used up to five times per hour. The number of sprays will be reduced over a period of three months. However, you may find that you need to continue for a long period of time.

The nicotine nasal spray comes with common symptoms, including nasal, eye irritation and sinus. Other therapy methods of nicotine replacement should be used by people with asthma, such as spraying may cause an attack. Other methods should also be used by people with allergies such as nasal congestion can block the nicotine contained in the spray to be absorbed by the body.

Nicotine Inhaler

Nicotine inhalers are also available by prescription. They work exactly the same way as other nicotine products. The only difference is that the inhaler up the medicine into the lungs, allowing the nicotine in the blood much more quickly.

The inhaler is made of plastic and is shaped like a cigarette. It is owned and inhalation exactly the same way you smoke a cigarette.

The inhaler contains small plastic cartridge containing nicotine. Air through the cartridges when you inhale. This air then turns the nicotine in the cartridges into steam.

The lungs and the bloodstream, and then absorb the vapor as it is inhaled. While nicotine inhaler provide the body with nicotine, they omit harmful tars, carbon monoxide, and smoke cigarettes.

There are about 20 minutes worth of breathing force in each cartridge of nicotine. This adds about 80 deep puffs or 300 shallow puffs. If the cartridge is not fully used, nicotine remains in the inhaler, so that you can use later.

Typically 6-16 cartridges are used every day by people who choose this method. The dose is usually reduced over a period of 6 to 12 weeks.

The nicotine inhaler can be used for more than a few months, if necessary, just as with other products of nicotine replacement. Some people reduce the use of the inhaler more than six months.

As with any form of products of nicotine replacement, people who suffer from stomach ulcers, heart problems, high blood pressure, thyroid problems, kidney or liver disease, asthma, diabetes and having require insulin must be exceptionally careful when you use these products to stop smoking.