Nicotine patches help relieve symptoms in some people with Long COVID
- Condition
- Long COVID
- At worst
- Moderate (mostly housebound)
- Ill for
- 5 years
- Published
- Oct 2025
Summary
Troy Roach began using nicotine patches consistently in 2023, though the article does not specify the dose or strength he used. He had developed Long COVID and ME in 2020, about three years earlier, with post-exertional malaise as a primary symptom, and on the patches he reported going from about 80% to 90% cognitive capacity, no longer having to ration his energy as carefully. After the first few months, however, his symptom reduction stalled, meaning the improvement plateaued rather than continuing to progress.
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