Method for reducing or eliminating smoking
OwnerSteven L. Burtoninventor
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Abstract
This invention is an improved method for reducing or eliminating tobacco usage and the nicotine dependency associated with tobacco usage by gradually decreasing an individual's tobacco consumption over a time period while replacing nicotine from tobacco with an alternative nicotine source in the form of a transdermal patch.
Claims21
A method of gradually reducing or eliminating an individual's tobacco usage habit, comprising the step of gradually decreasing the individual's tobacco usage over a time period while replacing nicotine from tobacco with an alternative nicotine source in the form of a transdermal patch.
A method of gradually reducing or eliminating an individual's tobacco usage habit, comprising the step of:
- (a) administering an alternative nicotine source in the form of a transdermal patch comprising a nicotine substance once a day for a predetermined period of time, wherein the predetermined period of time the individual continues to use tobacco but significantly reduces tobacco usage.
A method of any of the preceding claims wherein the nicotine substance is nicotine.
A method of gradually reducing or eliminating an individual's tobacco usage habit, comprising the steps of:
- (a) administering a first alternative nicotine source in the form of a transdermal patch comprising a nicotine substance once a day for a first predetermined period of time, wherein the first predetermined period of time the individual significantly reduces tobacco usage;
- (b) administering the first alternative nicotine source once a day for a second predetermined period of time, wherein the second predetermined period of time the individual further reduces tobacco usage;
- (c) administering a second alternative nicotine source in the form of a transdermal patch comprising a nicotine substance once a day for a third predetermined period of time, wherein the second alternative nicotine source comprises a higher nicotine substance dosage than the first alternative nicotine source;
- (d) administering a third alternative nicotine source in the form of a transdermal patch comprising a nicotine substance once a day for a fourth predetermined period of time, wherein the third alternative nicotine source comprises substantially the same nicotine substance dosage as the first alternative nicotine source;
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- (e) administering a fourth alternative nicotine source in the form of a transdermal patch comprising a nicotine substance once a day for a fifth predetermined period of time, wherein the fourth alternative nicotine source comprises a lower nicotine substance dosage than the first alternative nicotine source;
- wherein during the third, fourth and fifth predetermined periods of time the individual uses no tobacco.
A method according to any of the preceding claims in which the tobacco usage is smoking.
A method according to any of the preceding claims in which the tobacco usage is the use of a form of smokeless tobacco.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.