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The experiment used 12 subjects. Some had Nicotine patches, some got the placebo. And I'm assuming that there were, at the very least, 3 getting the placebo (any less and that's not much of a control group - even 3 isn't much of a control group, actually). So, we have, at maximum, 9 subjects actually getting a true nicotine transderm patch. I'm not really familiar with these scientific studies, but that sounds like a really small number of subjects, doesn't it? Isn't it hard to reach any sort of meaningful conclusion with such a small number of subjects?
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