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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| | Chapter 22 Smoking and tobacco cessation |
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| | Smoking and tobacco cessation: Nicotine replacement and |
| | pharmacologic treatment |
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| | Actor James Garner, 68, was successful in 1996 in stopping after 55 years of |
| | smoking, and now serves as a spokesperson for the Nicotrol brand of nicotine |
| | patches. |
| | USA Today, February 14, 1997, p. 2D |
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| | Nicotine patches help in reducing symptoms in patients with ulcerative colitis, a |
| | chronic condition that eventually results in nearly 30% of colitis sufferers having their |
| | colons surgically removed. The condition affects 320,000 Americans and results in |
| | rectal bleeding, severe diarrhea and cramping. It is much less common in smokers. |
| | Associated Press, March 1, 1997 |
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| | Nicotine NS, a nasal spray delivering one milligram per squirt (about as much as an |
| | average cigarette) was approved by the FDA in March 1996. |
| | American Medical News, April 15, 1996 |
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| | A Federal advisory committee has recommended approval of a metered dose oral |
| | nicotine inhaler as a fourth alternative source of nicotine for people trying to give up |
| | smoking. |
| | Associated Press, December 14, 1996 |
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| | In a study from Iceland, by adding nicotine nasal spray to the nicotine patch, |
| | abstinence rates were doubled at 6 months, tripled at 12 months, and remained |
| | double at the end of a five year follow up period compared to use of the transdermal |
| | nicotine patch alone. |
| | 10th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Beijing, 1997 (Thorsteinn Blondal) |
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