Smoking addiction and modified tobacco products

Abstract:

The question is: is smoking a disease or an addiction? The fact that the WHO has included smoking in two categories, Z72.0 (Problems related to lifestyle) and F17.2 (Nicotine dependence), speaks about how harmful this bad habit is to health. Regardless of the 4000 ingredients of tobacco smoke, some of which are carcinogenic and others are irritants, the addiction develops to nicotine, for which there is no substitute that could help in quitting smoking. This is why it is said that smoking addiction is stronger than drug addiction. How to quit smoking and is there an alternative to this addiction?

Key words:
addiction; e-cigarette; IQOS; smoking