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Rugby® has been providing consumers with more affordable choices to branded healthcare products for over 35 years.
From over-the-counter (OTC) medicines including pain relief, antacids, and laxatives to dietary supplements including fish oils and multivitamins, Rugby delivers the selection, value, and quality that consumers want in healthcare products – each one equivalent to their brand-name counterparts.
One of the more exciting developments in recent years – the addition of Rugby Nicotine Polacrilex Gum – provides a simple, more affordable option for those who are trying to stop. In addition, Rugby offers the only Clear Nicotine Transdermal Patch available as a generic. To learn more about Rugby Nicotine Polacrilex Gum, please click here. What’s more, Rugby has developed a Web site to further help you stop your nicotine dependency. To learn more, please click here.
If you are pregnant or breast-feeding, only use this medicine on the advice of your health care provider. Smoking can seriously harm your child. Try to stop smoking without using any nicotine replacement medicine. This medicine is believed to be safer than smoking. However, the risks to your child from this medicine are not fully known.
- if you continue to smoke, chew tobacco, use snuff, or use a nicotine patch or other nicotine containing products
- a sodium-restricted diet
- heart disease, recent heart attack, or irregular heartbeat. Nicotine can increase your heart rate
- high blood pressure not controlled with medication. Nicotine can increase blood pressure.
- stomach ulcer or diabetes
- using a non-nicotine stop smoking drug
- taking prescription medicine for depression or asthma. Your prescription dose may need to be adjusted.
- mouth, teeth, or jaw problems occur
- irregular heartbeat or palpitations occur
- you get symptoms of nicotine overdose such as nausea, vomiting, dizziness, diarrhea, weakness, and rapid heartbeat
Keep out of reach of children and pets. Pieces of nicotine gum may have enough nicotine to make children and pets sick. Wrap used pieces of gum in paper and throw away in the trash. In case of overdose, get medical help or contact a Poison Control Center right away.
If you are pregnant or breast-feeding, only use this medicine on the advice of your health care provider. Smoking can seriously harm your child. Try to stop smoking without using any nicotine replacement medicine. This medicine is believed to be safer than smoking. However, the risks to your child from this medicine are not fully known.
- If you continue to smoke, chew tobacco, use snuff, use nicotine gum, or use nicotine patch or other nicotine containing products.
- Heart disease, recent heart attack, or irregular heartbeat. Nicotine can increase your heart rate.
- High blood pressure no controlled with medication. Nicotine can increase your blood pressure.
- An allergy to adhesive tape or skin problems because you are more likely to get rashes.
- Using a non-nicotine stop smoking drug
- Taking a prescription medicine for depression or asthma. Your prescription dose may need to be adjusted.
- Do not smoke even when not wearing the patch. The nicotine in youir skin will still be entering your bloodstream for several hours after you take off the patch.
- If you have vivid dreams or other sleep disturbances, remove this patch at bedtime
- Skin redness caused by the patch does not go away after four days, or your skin swells, or you get a rash
- Irregular heartbeat or palpitations occur
- You get symptoms of nicotine overdose, such as nausea, vomiting, dizziness, weakness, and rapid heartbeat
Keep out of reach of children and pets. Used patches have enough nicotine to poison children and pets. If swallowed, get medical help or contact Poison Control Center right away. Save pouch to use for patch disposal. Dispose of used patch by folding sticky ends together and putting in pouch.
