Quitting Smoking Glossary
Acupuncture
An ancient Oriental treatment that uses needles to lessen someone's desire to smoke, lessen pain or other things.
Addiction
When someone depends on a drug or chemical physically and/or mentally and takes it even when he/she doesn't want to.
Anti-depressant medicine
Medicine that treats depression.
Anxiety
Having "nerves" or feeling very nervous.
Audiotapes
Cassettes or tapes that you listen to.
Coping skills
Ways to act that help you with difficult situations.
Craving
A feeling of wanting something very badly.
Depression
A condition when someone feels very low or has a feeling of no hope.
Hypnosis
Treatment to help someone quit smoking; used by a psychologist or psychiatrist to put someone in a trance.
Impotence
When a man is not able to have sex.
Infertility
When a man or a woman is not able to have a child.
Nicotine gum
Chewing gum that contains nicotine and lessen,s a person's craving to smoke.
Nicotine inhaler
A small plastic tube that contains nicotine and is used like a cigarette; it lessens a person's craving to smoke.
Nicotine nasal spray
A nose spray that contains nicotine and lessens a person's craving to smoke.
Nicotine patch
A patch that contains nicotine and is placed on the skin everyday; it lessens a person's craving to smoke.
Nicotine replacement treatment
These treatments are used to help someone quit smoking. They provide nicotine to the body in a way other than smoking.
Problem solving
When you think about different ways to deal with a problem.
Quit Date
The date you choose to quit smoking. You make a plan for quitting on this day.
Relapse
A setback when someone has a puff of a cigarette or starts smoking again after quitting.
Secondhand smoke
Smoke from someone blowing out while smoking, or smoke from a lit cigarette.
SIDS
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Support system
People (family, friends) you are close to who will help you.
Telephone counseling
When a trained counselor talks to you by phone to help you quit smoking.
Temptation
A situation that makes you want to do something you know you shouldn't do.
Urge
A feeling of wanting something very badly.
Videotapes
Tapes or cassettes that you watch.
Withdrawal
Uncomfortable feelings someone who is addicted to a drug or chemical has when the drug or chemical is stopped.
Zyban®
A medicine (pill) that can be prescribed by a doctor to lessen someone's desire to smoke.
