Habitrol Patch Nicotine Transdermal System
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Questions & Answers
Side Effects & Adverse Reactions
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.
- if you continue to smoke, chew tobacco, use snuff, use nicotine gum, or use another nicotine patch or other nicotine containing products
- 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.
- an allergy to adhesive tape or have skin problems, because you are more likely to get rashes.
- using a non-nicotine stop smoking drug
- taking a prescription medicine for depression or asthma. Your prescription dose may need to be adjusted.
- skin redness caused by the patch does not go away after four days, or if your skin swells, or you get a rash
- irregular heartbeat or palpitations occur
- you get symptoms of nicotine overdose, such as nausea, vomiting, dizziness, weakness and rapid heartbeat.
Legal Issues
There is currently no legal information available for this drug.
FDA Safety Alerts
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Manufacturer Warnings
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FDA Labeling Changes
There are currently no FDA labeling changes available for this drug.
Uses
Use reduces withdrawal symptoms, including nicotine craving, associated with quitting smoking.
History
There is currently no drug history available for this drug.
Other Information
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Sources
Habitrol Patch Nicotine Transdermal System Manufacturers
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Novartis Consumer Health, Inc.
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Habitrol Patch Nicotine Transdermal System | Novartis Consumer Health, Inc.
If you are under 18 years of age, ask a doctor before use before using this product, read the enclosed self-help guide for complete directions and other information stop smoking completely when you begin using the patch if you smoke more than 10 cigarettes per day, use the following schedule below: if you smoke 10 or less cigarettes per day, start with Step 2 for 6 weeks, then Step 3 for 2 weeks and then stop apply one new patch every 24 hours on skin that is dry, clean and hairless remove backing from patch and immediately press onto skin. Hold for 10 seconds. wash hands after applying or removing patch. Save pouch to use for patch disposal. Dispose of the used patches by folding sticky ends together and putting in pouch. the used patch should be removed and a new one applied to a different skin site at the same time each day if you have vivid dreams, you may remove the patch at bedtime and apply a new one in the morning do not wear more than one patch at a time do not cut patch in half or into smaller pieces do not leave patch on for more than 24 hours because it may irritate your skin and loses strength after 24 hours to avoid possible burns, remove patch before undergoing any MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) procedures stop using the patch at the end of 8 weeks. If you still feel the need to use the patch talk to your doctor. -
Novartis Consumer Health, Inc.
Habitrol Patch Nicotine Transdermal System | Novartis Consumer Health, Inc.
If you are under 18 years of age, ask a doctor before use before using this product, read the enclosed self-help guide for complete directions and other information stop smoking completely when you begin using the patch if you smoke more than 10 cigarettes per day, use the following schedule below: if you smoke 10 or less cigarettes per day, start with Step 2 for 6 weeks, then Step 3 for 2 weeks and then stop apply one new patch every 24 hours on skin that is dry, clean and hairless remove backing from patch and immediately press onto skin. Hold for 10 seconds. wash hands after applying or removing patch. Save pouch to use for patch disposal. Dispose of the used patches by folding sticky ends together and putting in pouch. the used patch should be removed and a new one applied to a different skin site at the same time each day if you have vivid dreams, you may remove the patch at bedtime and apply a new one in the morning do not wear more than one patch at a time do not cut patch in half or into smaller pieces do not leave patch on for more than 24 hours because it may irritate your skin and loses strength after 24 hours to avoid possible burns, remove patch before undergoing any MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) procedures stop using the patch at the end of 8 weeks. If you still feel the need to use the patch talk to your doctor. -
Novartis Consumer Health, Inc.
Habitrol Patch Nicotine Transdermal System | Novartis Consumer Health, Inc.
If you are under 18 years of age, ask a doctor before use before using this product, read the enclosed self-help guide for complete directions and other information stop smoking completely when you begin using the patch if you smoke more than 10 cigarettes per day, use the following schedule below: if you smoke 10 or less cigarettes per day, start with Step 2 for 6 weeks, then Step 3 for 2 weeks and then stop apply one new patch every 24 hours on skin that is dry, clean and hairless remove backing from patch and immediately press onto skin. Hold for 10 seconds. wash hands after applying or removing patch. Save pouch to use for patch disposal. Dispose of the used patches by folding sticky ends together and putting in pouch. the used patch should be removed and a new one applied to a different skin site at the same time each day if you have vivid dreams, you may remove the patch at bedtime and apply a new one in the morning do not wear more than one patch at a time do not cut patch in half or into smaller pieces do not leave patch on for more than 24 hours because it may irritate your skin and loses strength after 24 hours to avoid possible burns, remove patch before undergoing any MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) procedures stop using the patch at the end of 8 weeks. If you still feel the need to use the patch talk to your doctor.
![Habitrol Patch Nicotine Transdermal System, Step 1 (Nicotine) Patch, Extended Release [Novartis Consumer Health, Inc.]](http://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/image.cfm?setid=92761472-2bdb-4ef9-9c81-a39b1852d7e0&name=92761472-2bdb-4ef9-9c81-a39b1852d7e0-03.jpg)
![Habitrol Patch Nicotine Transdermal System, Step 3 (Nicotine) Patch, Extended Release [Novartis Consumer Health, Inc.]](http://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/image.cfm?setid=066bc3e8-678e-4ae1-9220-201a2dd9f37a&name=066bc3e8-678e-4ae1-9220-201a2dd9f37a-03.jpg)
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