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Cigarette addiction becomes a serious problem facing the world. Last time I wrote about acupuncture therapy to stop smoking and another therapy of acupuncture, Recent pharmacological breakthrough therapy to stop smoking within three months.

Not a day without a cigarette. The sentence was appropriate for the addict cigarette (nicotine addiction). A few hours without smoking a cigarette, addicts will usually feel uneasy. The mouth feel is not good to confused to do something.

In Indonesia, there are approximately 63 million smokers are difficult to avoid addiction. Although they are aware of cigarettes a negative impact on physical health, mental to the economy.

WHO data for 2008 notes, as many as 5.4 million people died from smoking worldwide. For Southeast Asia, as many as 124 million adults who smoke. Approximately 46% are in Indonesia.

Starting from these concerns, PT Pfizer Indonesia with Indonesian Heart Foundation and the Institute Tackling Problems Smoking (LM3) to develop therapies that aim to make people stop smoking.

Named with pharmacological therapy. “It’s always someone looking for a suitable drug for a person to quit smoking. However, recently discovered that pharmacological therapy can get people to stop smoking within three months,” said the doctor specialized heart disease and blood vessels as well as consultants from the Harapan Kita Hospital, dr Aulia Sani SpJP (K).

He tells us, someone is difficult to stop smoking because the nicotine in cigarettes cause addiction. Nicotine 5 to 10 times more powerful psychoactive effects in humans than cocaine and morphine. “Pharmacological therapy is quite easy way. Our patients with drug therapy called Varenicline,” call the doctor who is also Heart Foundation Board of Trustees and Members of Indonesia’s National Commission on PMM.

Therapy consists of several stages. Aulia explained, for the early stages, patients are given an initial dose of 0.5 mg of Varenicline for several days. After that followed by up to 1 mg doses of Varenicline remains Varenicline should be taken two times per day.

After pharmacological therapy using Varenicline, he admitted the average patient to stop smoking within three months. Without such experience anxiety disorders, difficulty concentrating, decreased appetite up.

Varian drug Varenicline is a new innovation called the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor partial agonist. “In addition to assisted therapy, the most important in order to stop smoking, everyone should have the intention. If the intention is strong, 150% will successfully quit smoking,” he said.

Tackling the Problem Board Institute Smoking (LM3), dr Widjajanti explained, drug Varenicline is the first non-nicotine specifically created to stop smoking.

“This drug works on receptors where nicotine works so as to reduce the symptoms of addiction,” he said.

In addition, Varenicline has a unique way of working with the blocking (antagonist effect) nicotine is attached to the brain. Not as nicotine replacement therapy, which already exists. Varenicline is also able to reduce the pleasure arising from cigarette smoking if a patient’s back.

This is evidenced by a study involving 1210 smokers. After the first 12 weeks were given pharmacological treatment with Varenicline, an addict successfully quit smoking cigarettes. Then, continue therapy for 12 weeks. The results indicate an extension of therapy to improve the success of patients quit smoking.