An open trial of transdermal nicotine replacement therapy for smoking cessation among alcohol- and drug-dependent inpatients
| Autor: | Andrew J. Saxon, Robert W. McGuffin, R. Dale Walker |
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| Rok vydání: | 1997 |
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Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence
Adult Male medicine.medical_specialty Nicotine Substance-Related Disorders medicine.medical_treatment media_common.quotation_subject Population Medicine (miscellaneous) Alcohol abuse Administration Cutaneous Internal medicine medicine Humans Nicotinic Agonists education media_common education.field_of_study business.industry Alcohol dependence Smoking Abstinence medicine.disease Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Alcoholism Nicotine withdrawal Anesthesia Smoking cessation Female Smoking Cessation Pshychiatric Mental Health business medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Journal of substance abuse treatment. 14(4) |
| ISSN: | 0740-5472 |
| Popis: | An open trial of transdermal nicotine replacement for smoking cessation was conducted. Over a 7-month period, all patients admitted to the inpatient alcohol and drug treatment unit of the Seattle Veterans Affairs Medical Center, (n = 207) were offered the opportunity to participate in an open trial of transdermal nicotine replacement for smoking cessation. Forty-nine (23.7%) elected to attempt cessation with transdermal nicotine during their inpatient treatment episodes. These subjects received no psychosocial treatments directed specifically at smoking cessation. They smoked a mean of 28.5 (SD = 16.4) cigarettes per day and obtained a mean score of 8.3 (SD = 1.9) on the Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence. Subjects remained on transdermal nicotine an average of 18.8 (SD = 8.2) days with desire to resume smoking the major reason for discontinuation. Seven subjects (14.3%) self-reported tobacco abstinence at 21 days, and 5 (10.2%) self-reported abstinence as outpatients at 6 weeks. These results show that a substantial proportion of alcohol- and drug-dependent patients entering inpatient treatment are willing to attempt alcohol and illicit drug cessation and tobacco cessation simultaneously and that transdermal nicotine holds promise as a treatment modality in this population. |
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