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- From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Nicotine Withdrawal Help Needed
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.181229.14076@spdcc.com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 18:12:29 GMT
- References: <8283@news.duke.edu> <72611@cup.portal.com>
- Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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- In article <72611@cup.portal.com> mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes:
- >> I receive less nicotine from my current levels of smoking than are provided
- >> in the lowest dosage nicotine patch.
- >Are you not using the patch for this reason? You can cut the patch dosage
- >in half by taking a scissors and cutting the patch in half. Just use half
- >of it at a time (or whatever you feel the correct dosage is).
-
- I don't believe this is the case; the rate of absorption is crucially
- dependent on an intact membrane between the skin and the nicotine
- reservoir. Someone could get very ill following your instructions.
-
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- Steve Dyer
- dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
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