Nicotine Replacement: A Critical Evaluation

Nicotine Replacement addresses the potential value and limitation of nicotine replacement techniques, with emphasis on the improvement of treatment strategies. The volume focuses on the mechanisms, efficacy, and safety and abuse potential of nicotine replacement, and includes reports that have implications for the coordination of pharmacological and behavioral therapies as well as for the overall understanding of smoking behavior.

This comprehensive volume covers a broad range of topics associated with the study of nicotine replacement. These include an examination of replacement therapies for chemical dependence, the pharmacological basis for nicotine replacement, and the roles of blood nicotine levels and upper airway stimulation in smoking. The efficacy of nicotine replacement (e.g. nicotine gum) is covered, as well as the pharmacological and behavioral factors involved in smoking relapse.

Nicotine Replacement also examines safety and abuse potential, with special attention to the toxicity of nicotine, the safety of nicotine-containing gum, and the dependence potential and abuse liability of nicotine replacement therapies.

This will be a valuable resource for physicians and other professionals involved in the treatment of smoking. The volume also offers guidelines for conducting new and critical investigations that will be useful to nicotine/smoking researchers.