My son has been using the patch for a couple of weeks and yes, it's really helping him to quit smoking but incredibly he has been having horrible hallucinating nightmares since he's been using them.
I told him that I doubted that there was a connection but he showed me on the box that there is a warning stating that these patches might cause these kind of dreams. Anyone know why these nicotine patches would cause this to happen? Thanks.

Nicotine is, to a degree, psychotropic....it affects the mind....when awake, we percieve the effect as relaxing, calming or, here's the connection, assistive to the creative process..."I think better when I smoke"....when you're a smoker, you are not actively taking in nicotine during sleep....with the patch, you are... several friends reported that the nightmares stopped when they stopped sleeping with the patch, or in two cases, used a lower dose patch at night, and they are still smokefree, despite having to deal with the morning craving...Good luck to your son.

I got very very weird dreams when I was on the patch.

They were super lucid and really strange. I actually enjoyed that part of quitting. I'm still having dreams about smoking over 4 months later.

My husband had nightmares when he was using the patch, and they didn't help him to quit smoking either.