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Tobacco smoking with its long history is of still high prevalence worldwide and has a high impact on human health and an enormous economic burden due to its toxicity and its high addictive potential. One obvious possibility of treatment is a suited way of nicotine substitution and then tapering off. Different products of replacement therapy that deliver nicotine via an oral, transdermal, or pulmonal way are applied for smoking cessation and relapse prevention, whenever possible and only to reduce smoking behavior as a means of harm reduction if complete abstinence is not achieved. The efficacy of NRT, even if challenged by diverse studies, could be shown in numerous RCTs, meta-analyses, and Cochrane reviews including recent ones. Genetic studies and combination therapies might provide new opportunities for differential approaches of NRT to augment its efficacy. In groups of certain risk such as minors or pregnant woman, NRT can be applied in single cases if psychosocial measures failed because side effects are rare. In conclusion, still nowadays with increasing therapeutic possibilities like noradrenaline-dopamine-reuptake inhibitors, nicotine receptor partial agonists, or vaccination trials, NRT is an easy, well-tolerated, and cost-effective way that guidelines still recommend as a first step besides counselling in smoking cessation.

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Polak, T., Jacob, C.C. (2021). Nicotine Replacement Therapy. In: Riederer, P., Laux, G., Nagatsu, T., Le, W., Riederer, C. (eds) NeuroPsychopharmacotherapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56015-1_398-1

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