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Smoking Cessation Products
alfa
Feb 22, 2017
4 min read
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Smoking Cessation Products: There are a vast array of smoking cessation products available, however, availability differs from country to country...
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Smoking Quitlines
alfa
Feb 22, 2017
2 min read
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Quitlines Quitlines are a phone support service which can help in the process of quitting nicotine addiction: Country Organization Website...
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Adjunct medications and supplements.
alfa
Feb 22, 2017
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a) Benzodiazepines. These are very often used to assist with the anxiety and sleeplessness of withdrawal. I have not seen conclusive evidence to...
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Should I drink or smoke marijuana or take other drugs when I detox?
alfa
Feb 22, 2017
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My own view is no; ideally not. Stimulant use is utterly contraindicated, as although it might temporarily relieve the stress and boredom, the...
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Why 5 days in the slow taper?
alfa
Feb 22, 2017
1 min read
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Because 5 days is enough, by my reckoning, to adjust to a 5mg drop in dose. Ideally a slow taper should contain good days (i.e. the 5th day after...
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Clonidine caveat
alfa
Feb 22, 2017
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Although lofexidine is approved for home detox, clonidine is not. The main reason is that clonidine is a hypotensive (it lowers blood pressure)...
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Fairly Quick Taper, Rapid Taper and Cold Turkey
alfa
Feb 22, 2017
2 min read
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Fairly quick taper. From a stable dose of methadone, reduce by 5mg a day until you stop. From 20mg down use alpha-2-adrenergics (preferably...
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Taper with a switch to buprenorphine.
alfa
Feb 22, 2017
1 min read
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If you wish to switch to buprenorphine, reduce as above (if necessary) until you hit 20 mg, then after 5 days of methadone 20mg, wait between 36...
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Long taper.
alfa
Feb 22, 2017
1 min read
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From a stable dose of methadone, reduce by 5 mg every 5 days until you hit 20mg. Then reduce by 2.5mg every 5 days and then stop. Although adding...
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More conventional Detoxes for Home Use
alfa
Feb 22, 2017
2 min read
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Chances are you're going to resort to more conventional means. The fact that there are so many tapering strategies rather than one definitive...
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