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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 1999
Filed:
Feb. 02, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robert M Keenan, Baltimore, MD (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
514343 ; 514813 ;
Abstract
A therapeutic method is provided to alleviate the tobacco withdrawal syndrome, the symptoms of nicotine withdrawal or the management of human body weight in nicotine-experienced or nicotine-naive individuals, comprising of administering an amount of nicotine metabolites or a pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof to a human in need of such treatment, in an amount which is effective to reduce or eliminate at least one of the symptoms of the tobacco withdrawal syndrome, nicotine withdrawal or manage human body weight.