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NICOTINE REPLACEMENT THERAPY

Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, 1999
Physicians can help their patients quit smoking by recommending to all of their patients that they quit smoking with the help of nicotine replacement medications. Currently available forms of nicotine medications include gum, patch, nasal spray, and vapor inhaler.
R V, Fant, L L, Owen, J E, Henningfield
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Nicotine Replacement Therapy

Annals of Pharmacotherapy, 1998
OBJECTIVE: To review the literature on nicotine dependence, nicotine pharmacology, health consequences associated with the use of nicotine, and nicotine replacement therapies used to aid smokers who are nicotine dependent. DATA SOURCES: A review of articles, book bibliographies, and published studies identified by a search of the MEDLINE database from ...
G H, Thompson, D A, Hunter
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Nicotine replacement therapy and ischaemic stroke

British Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2005
A52-year-old right-handed businessman developed sudden onset of non-fluent dysphasia, weakness and sensory disturbance on the right side of his body 3 weeks after starting Nicorette patches (21 mg). He continued to smoke 3–5 cigars a day while on these patches. The patient had a history of depression and excessive alcohol intake.
Richard, Ang, Stephen, Wroe, Hadi, Manji, Pankaj, Sharma   +3 more
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Tailoring Nicotine Replacement Therapy

CNS Drugs, 2006
Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) is an effective treatment for smoking cessation, but as with all such pharmacotherapies, the majority of smokers who use NRT products do not stop smoking or remain abstinent long term. Treatment outcome is affected by a range of individual-specific factors, as well as the pharmacokinetic profile of each NRT ...
Jennifer B, McClure, Gary E, Swan
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Nicotine Replacement Therapy and Cardiovascular Disease

Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 2005
Smoking is a well-established and important risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Cessation of smoking clearly decreases the chances of a first or subsequent cardiovascular event. Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) is a proven adJunctive therapy to increase the probability of quitting smoking. Anecdotal reports of adverse events in patients using NRT
Catherine L, Ford, Jonathan A, Zlabek
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Tobacco Smoking, Nicotine, and Nicotine and Non-Nicotine Replacement Therapies

Heart Disease, 2001
Tobacco smoking is associated with an increased risk for the development of coronary and pulmonary vascular diseases and smoking cessation will greatly reduce this risk. Nicotine replacement and nonnicotine modalities have been used alone and in combination to help in smoking cessation.
W H, Frishman, T, Ky, A, Ismail
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Nicotine replacement therapy during pregnancy.

JAMA, 1992
To the Editor. —Benowitz 1 recently suggested in an intriguing report submitted to the Food and Drug Administration Drugs of Abuse Advisory Committee that nicotine replacement therapy may provide a beneficial aid for pregnant women wishing to cease smoking.
D S, Seidman, D K, Stevenson
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Nicotine Replacement Therapy During Pregnancy

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1991
CIGARETTE smoking is a major preventable cause of fetal death and injury, yet many women continue to smoke cigarettes throughout pregnancy. The most effective pharmacologic adjunct to smoking cessation therapy is nicotine replacement, including nicotine chewing gum or transdermal nicotine.
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Attitudes and knowledge about nicotine and nicotine replacement therapy

Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 2006
Nicotine replacement therapies (NRTs) represent an effective means of promoting smoking cessation, but they remain underutilized. Negative attitudes and false beliefs about nicotine and nicotine replacement may cause NRT underutilization. In a randomized, controlled, single-blind study of nicotine gum, 97 smokers were assessed on their attitudes and ...
Marc E, Mooney, Adam M, Leventhal, Dorothy K, Hatsukami   +2 more
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Nicotine Replacement Therapy During Pregnancy

Archivos de Bronconeumología ((English Edition)), 2006
In spite of the fact that smoking is the main cause of obstetric morbidity and mortality, 20% of North American women smoke during pregnancy. In Spain, this figure is as high as 30% to 35%. Treating smoking addiction in these patients should be the first and most important therapeutic measure undertaken by health professionals responsible for the care ...
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