Nicotine replacements and patches are always in advertisements and pushed in stores. While the ads may make it seem easy to quit with a nicotine replacement, they are not actually effective. Recent studies show that smoking cessation drugs like patches and gums do not effectively stop nicotine cravings.

Nicotine Replacements Are Not a Solution

Less than 10 percent of people can quit cold turkey. In the journal Tobacco Control, researchers found that smoking cessation drugs are no more effective than quitting cold turkey. This means that …