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Posted 8/27/2007 4:07 PM (GMT -8)
Has anyone here had success in soothing a colitis flares with nicotine patches?
Posted 8/27/2007 6:31 PM (GMT -8)
I talked to a doctor at the Cleveland Clinic who did a study on them and tried one himself before giving them to his patients to try.  He said if you are a non-smoker, they will make you really ill (queasy and light-headed and so on).    

Posted 8/27/2007 6:54 PM (GMT -8)
Yuck I am a former smoker. Did he say that it ever got better?
Posted 8/27/2007 9:28 PM (GMT -8)

see this link regarding the carbon moxide helping shut down inflammatory responses in the colon....

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/35173.php

So I don't see how using the gum or patches can even work

:)

Posted 8/27/2007 10:56 PM (GMT -8)
This is the type of study that I was looking at


http://ibdcrohns.about.com/cs/ibdfaqs/a/smokingguts.htm
Posted 8/27/2007 11:42 PM (GMT -8)
I tried it but like others have said it made me very light headed and felt sick, effects just as if smoking for the first time in ages.
Posted 8/29/2007 5:27 AM (GMT -8)
Patch doesn't work.
Posted 8/29/2007 7:14 AM (GMT -8)
I am a non-smoker and I tried nicotine patches to try and get into remission.

It was a complete disaster.  I felt REALLY sick for hours and then I vomited - violently.

And no, it did nothing for my UC symptoms!

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