How do patches help smockers?
Quitting smoking is tough, but the nicotine patch can wean people off cigarettes Transdermal patches are non-invasive medicated sticking plasters that are used daily to dispense steady close of medication through the skin and into the bloodstream. Nicotine is the addictive element of a cigarrette that makes you want to keep smoking.
While a cigarette delivers the nocotine that a smoker craves straight to their brain, this nicotine fix can be replaced with a much lower dose that can be released slower to reduce the cravings associated with trying to give up smoking, and without chemicals found in tobacco smoke. The drug is sandwiched in a reservoir between an impermeable membrane that sticks to the skin. Although our skin is designed to keep chemicals out, the molecules of the drug used in patche are so tiny they can permeate it. The drug is diffused from the reservoir to the drug-release membrane and adhesive membrane, then from the adhesive membrane to the outer-most layer of skin. The drug is taken up by the capillaries and takes effect on the brain.
I'll never smock.
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