Review of Nicotine nasal spray neither effective nor well-tolerated by adolescent smokers

Authors

William P. Adelman, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Date of this Version

2009

Comments

Published in The Journal of Pediatrics, March 2009, pp. 462-463.

Abstract

This is an important and well-designed first study of the effect of nicotine nasal spray (NNS) on adolescent smoking cessation that supports current evidence-based guidelines that nicotine replacement therapy is neither effective nor recommended for adolescents. NNS theoretically could succeed for adolescents where other forms of nicotine replacement failed.