Smoking Cessation

Reduction strategies show success

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, January 5th, 2003

People who use nicotine replacement products like skin patches, gum and inhalers while continuing to smoke can cut their daily cigarette consumption almost in half, according to a new study.

Using data from 11 previous studies of nicotine replacement products, Swedish researcher Karl Olov Fagerstrom and colleagues calculated an approximate 50% drop in daily cigarette consumption among smokers across all the studies.

The individuals also reduced their exposure to harmful carbon monoxide, a toxic smoking byproduct, by 30%. Blood nicotine concentrations were the same with gum or inhaler and increased by 54% with the patch, when high doses were used. ...

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