--- abstract: 'Salivary nicotine and salivary cotinine is widely used in clinical and epidemiological studies to validate smoking cessation. However, the reported collection for salivary nicotine and salivary cotinine vary by technique and duration. This study investigated the influence of salivary collection by unstimulation and stimulation technique of the concentration of salivary nicotine and salivary cotinine. It was found that unstimulated technique produced the highest salivary nicotine concentration, whereas stimulated technique produced the highest salivary cotinine concentration. The results of this study suggest that it is important to standardise salivary nicotine and cotinine collection technique.' altloc: [] chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: - noorzurani@gmail.com - ~ - ~ creators_name: - family: Robson given: Noorzurani honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Bond given: A. J. honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Wolff given: K. honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 2012-02 date_type: published datestamp: 2012-11-09 19:02:25 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/80/78 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: 0 edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 8078 fileinfo: application/pdf;http://cogprints.org/8078/7/Robson%20%20et%20al.pdf|application/pdf;http://cogprints.org/8078/13/Robson%20%20et%20al.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: ~ item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: "Saliva\r\nsmoker\r\nnicotine\r\ncotinine\r\ntechnique\r\nbiological marker\r\noral\r\nverify\r\npassive\r\ntobacco\r\nsmoke\r\nflow-rate\r\nclinical-pharmacology\r\nexposure\r\nsmoking\r\nabsorption\r\nplasma\r\nurine" lastmod: 2012-11-09 19:02:25 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: 2 pagerange: ~ pubdom: TRUE publication: African Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology publisher: ~ refereed: TRUE referencetext: ~ relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 21 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2012-03-09 02:40:12 subjects: - soc-psy succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: Salivary nicotine and cotinine concentrations in unstimulated and stimulated saliva type: journale userid: 16139 volume: 4