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Nicoderm does not equal Nicorette. These are entirely different technologies.
I don't believe that Nicorette is different than any other nicotine gum (or chewing tobbacco for that matter). [1] has a comment about it. My non-chemist self belives that it has more to do with the was that the combination of mouth and nicotine react in the presence of acids. I could be wrong Syrrys 22:48, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Nicorette patch is effective also during consumption of tea, coffee or beer. It works. But you must keep the 3 steps: 15 mg patch- 1 month 10 mg patch- 1 month 5 mg patch - 1 month.
Nicorette is a brand of chewing gum designed as a smoking cessation aid - it is not the name of this category of products. I would call the overall category 'smoking cessation aids' or 'nicotine based smoking cessation aids' or something like that. Commit is the lozenge form of this product. These products are made with 'nicotine polacrilex' which is a purified (extracted or synthesized - I'm not sure) form of nicotine which is easy to adsorb through the mouth. I don't know much about what is in 'the patch' (nicoderm), but my comments below apply to 'the patch' as well.
These products ('nicotine based smoking cessation aids') work because they give a smoker their 'fix' of nicotine while they stop smoking. However, there is a behavioral and psychoactive component to nicotine addiction. Thus, smokers are addicted to nicotine but also have years of performing the physical acts of smoking which become habit - the hand to mouth ritual, the coffee/newspaper ritual, the regular break with co-workers, etc. Thus, smokers have to kick their nicotine addiction AND re-arrange the associated behaviors. These products work by letting smokers deal with re-arranging those behaviors while giving them a convenient format to slowly wean off the nicotine habit.
The relative importance of the psychopharmacological/behavioral aspects of the smoking experience may have something to do with how successful use of these 'nicotine based cessation aids' will be for an individual smoker.
If a smoker becomes addicted to one of these 'nicotine based smoking cessation aids' the net effect would probably be greatly beneficial for the smoker anyway. Nicotine has some cardiovascular problems (and is toxic in high doses) - it's main is evilness lies in it's addictive properties. I'm not even sure if nicotine itself is carcinogenic - but PLENTY of other stuff in tobacco is. So - developing a habit with nicotine gums/lozenges isn't great, but I would wager that it certainly safer than smoking. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.30.247.29 (talk) 00:42, 13 January 2007 (UTC).
Would greater success rates be achieved if chewing nicorette gum were combined with other strategies, including:
Nicotine is not the issue-- the only abstinence needed is from ever again torching up another 700-mg. not-burning overdose. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tokerdesigner (talk • contribs) 17:43, 24 October 2008 (UTC) j I DOTN MJ@WEJGTBFWKRBK this is for to stop smoking AND BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BY CHLOLE EDDINS21:30, 14 May 2018 (UTC)21:30, 14 May 2018 (UTC)21:30, 14 May 2018 (UTC)21:30, 14 May 2018 (UTC)184.53.33.111 (talk) 21:30, 14 May 2018 (UTC)⊅⊅∵∪∭1⁄⁄
Could someone explain to me the after affects of this so called way to stop smoking? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.131.70.31 (talk) 08:36, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
I suggest "Third-party" template to be removed from this article. Looks like it has enough links to trusted sources. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 21:55, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
I oppose the idea of merging this article with Nicoderm. Nicoderm is a local (US only) brand and it's patches only. Nicorette is a global brand with wider product line. These two are not the same thing. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 06:02, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
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This proprietary product is not on the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines. There is an entry for nicotine replacement therapy, which is where the category Category:World Health Organization essential medicines belongs, not on this one. --RexxS (talk) 02:15, 29 May 2020 (UTC)