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Reuters had an article today about the nicotine patch, stating that it may help PD symptoms, even going so far as to say that smokers are less likely to develope PD than non-smokers. This wasn't true in my case. I smoked all my life (4 pks./day) until around 1991, then started again in 1994 after the loss of our infant son. I am now in the process of quiting again FOR GOOD, and am down from 4 pks./day to less than 1 pk./day. Nontheless, in the four+ yrs. that I've had PD and have been smoking, the nicotine has not helped my tremors or diskensia. Who knows what to think about some of these new "discoveries"? Jim J. 54/4 So.Lake Tahoe, CA