[Results of clinical use of nicorette in the treatment of tobacco smokers].

Abstract

The results of nicorette therapy in 51 patients with tobacco dependence were analysed. Among the total number of patients 14 had ideational, 8 psychosomatic and 29 dissociated tobacco dependence. A year follow-up shows that 20 patients gave up smoking (predominantly with dissociated tobacco dependence). The clinical aspects of a reverse dynamics of the symptoms of a pathological tobacco addition, with consideration of the type of tobacco dependence and premorbid features of the course of mental cognition, show that nicorette possesses a certain clinical spectrum of action suppressing the activity of a secondary ideational component of pathological tobacco addiction. Nicorette may raise the level of a clinico-differential therapeutic approach aimed at giving up smoking in the form of monotherapy or a combined therapy with the use of tranquillizers, neuroleptics and antidepressants.

• Authors: V K Smirnov
• Journal: Problemy tuberkuleza (Probl Tuberk) Issue 7 Pg. 40-4 ( 1991) ISSN: 0032-9533 [Print] Russia (Federation)
• Vernacular Title: Rezul'taty klinicheskogo primeneniia nikoretta v praktike lecheniia kuriashchikh tabak lits.
• PMID: 1754588 (Publication Type: Clinical Trial, Journal Article)

Chemical References

• Chewing Gum
• Polymethacrylic Acids
• Polyvinyls
• Nicotine

Topics

• Adult
• Chewing Gum
• Female
• Humans
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Motivation
• Nicotine (administration & dosage, analogs & derivatives)
• Polymethacrylic Acids (administration & dosage)
• Polyvinyls (administration & dosage)
• Smoking (drug therapy, psychology)
• Smoking Cessation (methods, psychology)
• Tobacco Use Cessation Devices