41.   The money might be used to pay for smoking-cessation programs or to offer discounts to smokers to purchase nicotine patches or other stop-smoking products.

42.   The newer products would all be available initially only by prescription, putting them at a distinct disadvantage facing nicotine patches and gum available over the counter.

43.   There are nicotine patches and gums that can be purchased, some requiring a prescription and others not.

44.   Today, though, Glaxo showed its drug could improve quit rates over the nicotine patch.

45.   Will the cigarette-smoking man opt fo a nicotine patch?

46.   Zaffaroni, who recently retired as chairman of Alza, known for its popular nicotine patch, could not be reached for comment.

47.   Pharmacia and Upjohn said it expects the inhaler will attract new customers and provide the biggest growth in the nicotine replacement therapy market since the launch of nicotine patches.

48.   Pharmacia, whose products include Rogaine hair restorer and Nicotrol nicotine patches, has had disappointing profits as costs mounted.

49.   A nicotine patch provides that chemical to the receptors without the tar and smoke of cigarettes.

50.   Alza, based in Mountain View, Calif., developed the technology for the best-selling Nicoderm nicotine patches sold by GlaxoSmithKline.