Do heavy smokers benefit from higher dose nicotine patch therapy?

Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 226-233

  Killen, Joel D ^a   Fortmann, Stephen P ^a   Davis, Laurie ^a   Strausberg, Laura ^a   Varady, Ann ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROTOXICITY; RASH; RELAPSE; SMOKING CESSATION; TRANSDERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; ADULT; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG TOLERANCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; RECURRENCE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; TELEPHONE;

EID: 0032771569     PISSN: 10641297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1064-1297.7.3.226     Document Type: Article

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