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Patches & Gum |
NICORETTE Patch
Nicotine
5 mg/16h, 10 mg/16h, 15 mg/16h
Transdermal patch
This answers some common questions about Nicorette Patch.
It does not contain all the available information or take the place
of professional advice such as talking to your doctor or pharmacist.
All medicines have risks and benefits. You need to weigh the risks of
using Nicorette Patch against the benefits it will have for you.
If you have any concerns about using this medicine, ask your doctor
or pharmacist.
What Nicorette Patch is used for
Nicorette Patch helps you to give up smoking by relieving the desire
to smoke, as well as some of the unpleasant effects, which smokers experience
when they stop smoking.
How Nicorette Patch works
Smokers have both a physical reliance on nicotine (i.e. the body becomes
dependent on nicotine) and a psychological reliance on the smoking habit
itself. When you give up smoking, your body will miss the effects of
nicotine and you will miss the habit of smoking.
Nicorette Patch helps you to tackle these two sides of the problem separately,
instead of all at once. It is your body's dependence on nicotine, which
causes withdrawal symptoms when you suddenly stop smoking.
Nicotine is an addictive substance. Symptoms may include irritability,
restlessness, depression, weight gain, and craving for cigarettes. Nicorette
Patch is intended to ease such withdrawal symptoms by providing your
body with nicotine. This leaves your mind free to concentrate on overcoming
your psychological desire to smoke.
Nicorette Patch has been designed to slowly allow nicotine to be absorbed
through your skin.
NICORETTE Gum
Nicotine
2 mg, 4 mg chewing gum
This answers some common questions about Nicorette Gum.
It does not contain all the available information or take the place
of professional advice such as talking to your doctor or pharmacist.
All medicines have risks and benefits. You need to weigh the risks of
taking Nicorette Gum against the benefits it will have for you.
If you have any concerns about taking this medicine, ask your doctor
or pharmacist.
What Nicorette Gum is used for
Nicorette Gum helps you to give up smoking by relieving the desire to
smoke, as well as some of the unpleasant effects, which smokers experience
when they stop smoking.
Nicorette Gum is also used to help smokers who need to temporarily stop
smoking e.g. on long air flights. Nicorette Gum can also help reduce
the amount of cigarettes smoked in smokers who are unable or unwilling
to quit.
How Nicorette Gum works
Smokers have both a physical reliance on nicotine (i.e. the body becomes
dependent on nicotine) and a psychological reliance on the smoking habit.
When you give up smoking, your body will miss the effects of nicotine
and you will miss the habit of smoking. Nicorette Gum helps you to tackle
these two sides of the problem separately, instead of all at once. It
is your body's dependence on nicotine, which causes withdrawal symptoms
when you suddenly stop smoking. Nicotine is an addictive substance.
Symptoms may include irritability, restlessness, depression, weight
gain, and craving for cigarettes. Nicorette Gum is intended to ease
such withdrawal symptoms by providing your body with nicotine.
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