Nicotine Replacement Therapies

Smoking cessation

The best way for adult smokers to achieve risk reduction is to quit. Data from 2021 indicate that in the U.S., 66.5% of adults who were ever established smokers had quit smoking.^[1] In Great Britain as of 2019, 62.5% of those who had ever smoked had quit.^[2]

Quitting smoking can be difficult, but any smoker can quit if sufficiently motivated to do so.^[3,4,5] Adult smokers use various approaches to quit, although the majority use no support (referred to as ‘cold turkey’), despite the availability of many medications and behavioural support options.