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Dr. Elliot Wineburg, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, felt the study suffered from some limitations, namely lack of individual attention to individual smokers' habits.

"The authors said that they gave the patients lozenges according to the company's [instructions]," he said. But this doesn't take into account how much people smoke or how strong their cigarettes are. "They don't even look into the amount of nicotine a person takes."

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SOURCES: Megan E. Piper, Ph.D., assistant professor, Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Jonathan H. Whiteson, M.D., co-director, Joan and Joel Smilow Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention Center, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York City; Elliot Wineburg, M.D., assistant clinical professor of psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City; Len Horovitz, pulmonary specialist, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City; November 2009 Archives of General Psychiatry


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