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Article: New evidence nicotine gum helps stop smoking.
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- HealthFacts
- Article date:
- February 1, 1988
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NEW EVIDENCE NICOTINE GUM HELPS STOP SMOKING
Nicotine chewing gum has been available by prescription in the United States in 2-mg doses since 1984. A new study from Denmark suggests that a 4-mg. dose may be up to five times more effective than the lower dose in helping smokers quit. The study also discovered that nicotine chewing gum, combined with group counseling, helped up to three times as many people stop smoking as did group counseling alone. (The New England Journal of Medicine, 7 January 1988).
The Danish researchers point out that the effectiveness of nicotine chewing gum in smoking cessation has been the subject of a number of previous studies ...