Nicotine patches, so far, have been free of such concerns. Finally, a disclosure by the Duke study’s lead author, Jed Rose: Rose is one of the inventors of the nicotine patch, and has received ...

Women later reported whether they had quit smoking. Some women had quit by using a product they were not assigned. Mostly, women given patches stopped with the help of e-cigarettes they acquired ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Nicotine patches don't help pregnant women quit smoking, suggests a new study from the UK -- in part because so few women use them as prescribed. While there's evidence ...

Jan. 9, 2012 -- The nicotine patch designed to help people quit smoking can also improve memory in older adults with mild cognitive impairment, or MCI, a small clinical trial found.

It's tough to quit smoking and many people opt for substitutes like nicotine patches or gum to make the transition easier. But does that mean you're picking up another addiction? According to ...

The researchers followed 787 adults who had recently quit smoking and found that over time about a third of them had relapsed, whether they were using nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) or not.

The study also found that the nicotine patch, which usually yields a 50 to 60 percent end of treatment success rate in smokers who do not have mental illness, was not particularly effective by itself ...

For this 12-week study, King and her colleagues gave 122 smokers who were also heavy drinkers either nicotine replacement therapy, in the form of the nicotine patch, in combination with the ...

Between 2013 and 2016, the number of people who quit smoking was virtually identical among both e-cigarette users and traditional smokers: 15.5% of e-cigarette users quit and 15.6% of smokers quit.