Get all the details on varenicline, nicotine replacement therapy, and integrating psychosocial interventions into a comprehensive smoking cessation treatment plan! Smoking cigarettes is the leading cause of preventable death worldwide. Listen as our esteemed guest Dr. Steve Baldassarri
(Yale) provides us expert pearls to help our patients quit smoking.
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- Cover Art: Kate Grant
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- Editor: Cyrus Askin, MD (written materials); Clair Morgan of nodderly.com
- Guest: Steve Baldassarri MD MHS
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*Note: Time Stamps refer to ad free version.
03:02 Intro, disclaimer, guest bio
04:35 Guest one-liner
09:50 Tobacco Use Disorder - Chronic Disease
11:08 Case from Kashlak
11:56 Obtaining a history
13:39 Motivations for Smoking Cessation
15:29 Factors associated with challenges in smoking cessation:
21:40 Gradual Tapers vs Cold Turkey
25:18 Nicotine Replacement 32:40
28:57 Pharmacotherapy - “Controller” Medications
31:05 Pharmacotherapy - Short Acting Medications
33:20 Dosing Medications
38:35 Varenicline
39:00 Nicotine gum dosing
44:40 Duration of therapy
48:08 Bupropion
49:05 Behavioral Interventions
55:24 Vaping and electronic cigarettes
57:03 Vaping for smoking cessation
01:02:35 EVALI
01:05:49 Outro