Medical-Surgical Nursing:Assessment and Managementof Clinical Problems 9th Edition by Sharon Lewis,Shannon Ruff Dirksen,Margaret McLean Heitkemper,Linda Bucher

Exercise 11

When the nurse is encouraging a woman who smokes 1½ packs of cigarettes per day to quit with the use of nicotine replacement therapy, the woman asks how the nicotine in a patch or gum differs from the nicotine she gets from cigarettes.What should the nurse explain about nicotine replacement?
A) It includes a substance that eventually creates an aversion to nicotine.
B) It provides a noncarcinogenic nicotine, unlike the nicotine in cigarettes.
C) It prevents the weight gain that is a concern to women who stop smoking.
D) It eliminates the thousands of toxic chemicals that are inhaled with smoking.