Menthol Smokers in Large-Scale Nicotine Replacement Therapy Program

Running head: SENSORY PERCEPTIONS OF NICOTINE REPLACEMENT THERAPY BETWEEN MENTHOL AND NONMENTHOL CIGARETTE SMOKERS

Intentions of smokers to use free nicotine replacement therapy.

Public health initiatives to distribute nicotine replacement therapy free of charge as a means of promoting smoking cessation are ongoing. Are there enough smokers interested in using nicotine replacement therapy to have a substantial impact on the prevalence of smoking if this aid were distributed free to all interested smokers? We conducted a telephone survey of 825 randomly selected daily sm...

Nicotine replacement therapy use among smokers and ex-smokers: associated attitudes and beliefs: a qualitative study

BACKGROUND Smokers who are unwilling or unable to quit smoking may benefit from using nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) for harm reduction. This may include the partial or complete substitution of cigarettes with NRT. A taxonomy of the characteristics of those using NRT for harm reduction would be helpful in tailoring advice and treatment. Although attempts to categorize those using NRT for ha...

Inhaled nicotine replacement therapy

There are a large number of smokers who want to quit smoking but have failed in their attempts to do so, with many having been unsuccessful at quitting multiple times over their lifetime. The existing marketed nicotine replacement therapies (NRT) have only marginal effectiveness and none provide a comparable physiological response to that derived from cigarette smoking; that is, rapid absorptio...

Nicotine replacement therapy.

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 1982 to 1996 on nicotine dependence, nicoti...