they are not absolutely safe, but it would compensate to use them in great smokers.
The nicotine patches and chewing-gum seem safe for the pregnant women, according to it concludes a study carried out by investigators of the Medical Center of the University of Duke (the United States) and published number of the magazine American Journal in the last of Obstetrics and Gynecology (2009; 354.e1-354.e7).
Literature picks up numerous evidences in which it is stated the effectiveness of the patches and chewing-gum at the time of helping the adults generally to stop smoking. Nevertheless, as she indicates the Dra. Geeta K. Swamy, director of the investigation, “as much women as obstetras have had doubts on their security and effectiveness during the pregnancy”.
The authors reviewed the data of pregnant smokers who had participated in a comparative study of psychological therapies with patches or nicotine chewing-gum to stop smoking. Its use tripled the number of women that left the addiction (from 8% to 24%).
Nevertheless, almost a third (31%) of the women dealt with the patch or chewing-gum had complications during the pregnancy, unlike 17% that did not use those products.
The highest risk to undergo those complications was registered in the black women, those that had had problems in previous pregnancies and the users of analgesic. The use of the patch, indicated the equipment, did not have a direct influence.
According to the results, and although the patch is not “absolutely safe”, the authors they conclude that “it would be worth the pain to use it in the great smokers, given to the well-known relation between the tobacco and the bad prognosis of the pregnancy, as the premature childbirth and the low weight when being born”.