If any smoke 6?7 cigarettes a day so what best medicine to leave the same? ALSO WHICH TEST SHOULD BE CARRIED OUT TO CHECK health OF LUNGS AND heart?

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Dear lybrate-user,
The best medicine to leave the cigarettes, is your continuous motivation to keep off cigarettes. Initially for 12 weeks, later as and when you crave for cigarettes. Apart from that if you have withdrawal symptoms, you can take the help of nicotine replacement as gum or patch. If you have depression or anxiety or alcohol dependence along with smoking, you have to take treatment for them also. Then your relapse rate will come down.
Please request your family/local doctor to check your lungs and heart. He may send you for x ray chest, lung function test, ECG, treadmill, echo-cardiogram and various blood tests depending on your age and signs after examining you.
Alternately, you can undergo master health check up done in many labs and corporate hospitals on your own. They may refer you to a doctor depending on the results of tests.

Saranya Devanathan · Accepted Answer

Dear lybrate-user,
The best medicine to leave the cigarettes, is your continuous motivation to keep off cigarettes. Initially for 12 weeks, later as and when you crave for cigarettes. Apart from that if you have withdrawal symptoms, you can take the help of nicotine replacement as gum or patch. If you have depression or anxiety or alcohol dependence along with smoking, you have to take treatment for them also. Then your relapse rate will come down.
Please request your family/local doctor to check your lungs and heart. He may send you for x ray chest, lung function test, ECG, treadmill, echo-cardiogram and various blood tests depending on your age and signs after examining you.
Alternately, you can undergo master health check up done in many labs and corporate hospitals on your own. They may refer you to a doctor depending on the results of tests.

Jagadeesan M.S. · Answer

You need to be checked and tobacco anti craving drugs can be given. Doing a ECG, Echo, CT chest along with Pulmonary function test will show your heart lung condition at present due to smoking. All the best.