Nicotine patches work to help you quit smoking by reducing symptoms of nicotine withdrawal. For nicotine patches to work, you must stop smoking, or else you may experience side effects.

including "nicotine gum" and "nicotine patches," which have been approved by the FDA as quit-smoking aids. These latter ...

Remove patch after 16 or 24 hours; if vivid dreams or other sleep disturbances occur, remove at bedtime and reapply in AM. >10cigarettes/day: initially one 21mg patch daily for 6 weeks ...

Anti-smoking advocates are concerned progress towards reducing the number of young people vaping could be swamped by something they say is even worse.