My patient wants to use a method of quitting not known to be effective such as acupuncture, hypnosis, or laser therapy. What should I do?
Ask the patient to consider increasing the odds that efforts to quit will be successful by augmenting the selected method of quitting with appropriate medication and counseling. Do not denigrate any attempt to quit, as there is something to be learned from every effort. If the patient declines to augment the selected method of treatment, support the effort to quit, but ask for an agreement that should it not work the patient will consider methods that include medication and counseling.
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