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US 6,660,754 B1Granted
Method for reducing or eliminating smoking
AssigneeSmithKline Beecham Corporation
InventorsTheodore K. Kyle, Saul Shiffman
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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.
Claims11
A method of gradually reducing an individual's tobacco usage habit, comprising the steps of:
- (a) administering one unit of an alternative nicotine source after waking, waiting one hour, and then continuing the individual's normal tobacco usage pattern for a fast predetermined period of time;
- (b) administering one unit of an alternative nicotine source in each consecutive one hour time unit after waking, waiting one hour and then continuing the individual's normal tobacco usage pattern for a predetermined period of time to define a modified tobacco usage pattern;
- (c) repeating step (b) until a desired level of usage of said alternative nicotine source and a desired modified tobacco usage pattern is reached;
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- (d) maintaining said desired level of usage of said alternative nicotine source and said desired modified tobacco usage pattern,
- wherein the desired modified tobacco usage pattern and the desired level of said alternative nicotine source is not zero.
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A method of reducing an individual's nicotine usage habit, comprising the steps of:
- (a) administering one unit of an alternative nicotine source after waking, waiting one hour, and then continuing an individual's normal tobacco usage pattern for a first predetermined period of time;
- (b) administering one unit of an alternative nicotine source in each consecutive one hour time unit after waking, waiting one hour and then continuing the individual's normal tobacco usage pattern for a predetermined period of time to define a modified tobacco usage pattern;
- (c) repeating step (b) until the desired modified tobacco usage pattern is using no tobacco;
- (d) maintaining said desired level of usage of said alternative nicotine source,
- wherein the desired modified tobacco usage pattern and the desired level of said alternative nicotine source is not zero.
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