Conditions: Nicotine Dependence
Keywords: nicotine dependence, transdermal nicotine patch, smoking while receiving nicotine replacement, comorbidities
Allocation: NA | Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Enrollment: 23
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
Smoking while on nicotine patches will help subjects to reduce their expired carbon monoxide levels from the levels they were before they started using the patch. Subjects will also decrease their daily consumption of cigarettes.

Detailed description:
Subjects who smoke while on an individually dosed tNRT will reduce their expired carbon monoxide levels from pre- to post-treatment conditions. They will also decrease their daily consumption of cigarettes.

Arms:
arm 1: Adult smokers willing to quit were treated with escalating doses of transdermal nicotine patch (Nicoderm) and brief counselling if they continued to smoke over a 9-week treatment period.

Interventions: intervention 1: Nicoderm
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: None

Protocol document: