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It does have some side effects and isn't necessarily for everybody , but it definitely does what it says on the tin. You basically set a quit date for some weeks into the future and then smoke your brains out til then. The drug breaks the reward pathway so you start to find after a week or two that every cigarette does nothing and tastes bad, and you end up cutting back naturally. The course lasts for long enough to break the habit and then after that the will power to not go back is significantly easier. I believe there are some issues for people with mental health concerns due to the reward pathway fuckery, but your doctor should be able to advise when they are prescribing.
It appears that people with mental health issues have way more problems to quit smoking than people on average.
The burning of tobacco makes the nicotine combine with other compounds in the tobacco to form MAO inhibitor effect. Which people with mental problems become way more dependent on than other people.
For these people e-cigs have been shown to help a lot, despite they don't have the MAO effect, they help by limiting the abstinence of not smoking by providing nicotine, and probably by providing a reasonably strong placebo effect from "feeling" like smoking in many ways.
For some people with mental problems, smoking can often be seen as an attempt of self treatment.