Effect of Smoking, Abstention and Nicotine Replacement Therapy on Wound Healing

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2001-01-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The aim was to determine the wound healing capacity in healthy never smokers and smokers who continue to smoke, or quit smoking using transdermal nicotine patch versus placebo patch.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Bispebjerg Hospital
• Collaborator: The Danish Medical Research Council
• Treatments: Nicotine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• daily smokers smoking between 15-25 cigarettes per day and never smokers

Exclusion Criteria:

• chronic medical disease

• atopic dermatitis or other skin disease

• pregnancy

• menopause

• allergy to dressings or patches

• current or recent medication with corticosteroids or NSAID