Areas › Low mood and hard feelings › When you use something to cope

There are medicines that make stopping smoking easier, and one of them can sometimes cover a mood or attention problem at the same time. That is a fair thing to ask a doctor about.

All of them carry side effects, so the conversation is a weighing up rather than a yes or no. Go in with what you already know about yourself: how many attempts, what happened when you stopped before, what else you are carrying. That gives the prescriber something to work with and keeps you inside the decision rather than outside it.

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