In Borania many people who want to quit smoking wear nicotine skin patches, which deliver small doses of nicotine through the skin  Beginning next month, these patches can be purchased without a doctor' s prescription
Although nonprescription patches will be no more effective than those obtained by prescription and will be equally expensive, patch manufacturers are nevertheless predicting that the patches' new nonprescription status will boost sales, which have slowed considerably in recent years
Most people who wanted to quit smoking and who found the nicotine skin patch helpful in quitting have quit.