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Warnings
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If you are pregnant or breast-feeding,
only use this medicine on the advice of your health care provider. Smoking can seriously harm your child. Try to stop smoking without using any nicotine replacement medicine. This medicine is believed to be safer than smoking. However, the risks to your child from this medicine are not fully known.
Do not use
- if you continue to smoke, chew tobacco, use snuff, or use a nicotine patch or other nicotine containing products
Ask a doctor before use if you have
- a sodium-restricted diet
- heart disease, recent heart attack, or irregular heartbeat. Nicotine can increase your heart rate.
- high blood pressure not controlled with medication. Nicotine can increase your blood pressure.
- stomach ulcer or diabetes
Ask a doctor or pharmacist before use if you are
- using a non-nicotine stop smoking drug
- taking prescription medicine for depression or asthma. Your prescription dose may need to be adjusted.
- if you continue to smoke, chew tobacco, use snuff, or use a nicotine patch or other nicotine containing products
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Directions
- if you are under 18 years of age, ask a doctor before use
- before using this product, read the enclosed User’s Guide for complete directions and other important information
- stop smoking completely when you begin using the lozenge
- if you smoke your first cigarette within 30 minutes of waking up, use 4 mg nicotine lozenge
- if you smoke your first cigarette more than 30 minutes after waking up, use 2 mg nicotine lozenge according to the following 12 week schedule:
Weeks 1 to 6 Weeks 7 to 9 Weeks 10 to 12 1 lozenge every
1 to 2 hours1 lozenge every
2 to 4 hours1 lozenge every
4 to 8 hours- nicotine lozenge is a medicine and must be used a certain way to get the best results
- place the lozenge in your mouth and allow the lozenge to slowly dissolve (about 20-30 minutes). Minimize swallowing. Do not chew or swallow lozenge.
- you may feel a warm or tingling sensation
- occasionally move the lozenge from one side of your mouth to the other until completely dissolved (about 20-30 minutes)
- do not eat or drink 15 minutes before using or while the lozenge is in your mouth
- to improve your chances of quitting, use at least 9 lozenges per day for the first 6 weeks
- do not use more than one lozenge at a time or continuously use one lozenge after another since this may cause you hiccups, heartburn, nausea or other side effects
- do not use more than 5 lozenges in 6 hours. Do not use more than 20 lozenges per day.
- stop using the nicotine lozenge at the end of 12 weeks. If you still feel the need to use nicotine lozenges, talk to your doctor.
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INGREDIENTS AND APPEARANCE
GOOD SENSE NICOTINE
nicotine polacrilex lozengeProduct Information Product Type HUMAN OTC DRUG Item Code (Source) NDC:68258-7991(NDC:0113-0344) Route of Administration ORAL Active Ingredient/Active Moiety Ingredient Name Basis of Strength Strength NICOTINE (UNII: 6M3C89ZY6R) (NICOTINE - UNII:6M3C89ZY6R) NICOTINE 2 mg Inactive Ingredients Ingredient Name Strength ASPARTAME (UNII: Z0H242BBR1) MAGNESIUM STEARATE (UNII: 70097M6I30) MANNITOL (UNII: 3OWL53L36A) POTASSIUM BICARBONATE (UNII: HM5Z15LEBN) SODIUM ALGINATE (UNII: C269C4G2ZQ) SODIUM CARBONATE (UNII: 45P3261C7T) XANTHAN GUM (UNII: TTV12P4NEE) Product Characteristics Color white Score no score Shape ROUND Size 16mm Flavor MINT Imprint Code L344 Contains Packaging # Item Code Package Description Marketing Start Date Marketing End Date 1 NDC:68258-7991-7 3 in 1 CARTON 1 24 in 1 VIAL Marketing Information Marketing Category Application Number or Monograph Citation Marketing Start Date Marketing End Date ANDA ANDA077007 11/28/2009 Labeler - Dispensing Solutions, Inc. (066070785) Registrant - PSS World Medical, Inc. (101822682) Establishment Name Address ID/FEI Business Operations Dispensing Solutions, Inc. 066070785 relabel, repack