Home > General Medicine > Medications That Help You Stop Smoking Get the Flash Player to see this player. Rate: (Click the stars to rate) Published on Nov 25, 2008 by JoshuaFink, Views: 5283 Dr. Joshua Fink, a pulmonologist, reviews the medications for smoking cessation. Nicotine gum and patch can be helpful to decrease the withdrawal symptoms from nicotine. Accupuntture, hypnosis, and the medications Buspar, and chantix may also be helpful. As a health care worker, it is hard to believe that people are still smoking given all of the information we know about the detrimental effects of smoking. docdrh 10.10 years ago