21.   Jack considers smoking a weakness, so stash the cigarettes and go to the drugstore for some nicotine patches.

22.   Many customers, she realizes, do not want to be seen taking kits off the counter, where they are displayed between nicotine patches and reading glasses.

23.   Mecamylamine can be taken in pill form and does not produce the nausea associated with a nicotine patch.

24.   Meanwhile, Sano Corp. is among several companies developing a generic version of the nicotine patch, analysts said.

25.   Nonprofit organizations take in roughly a half-billion dollars a year for lending their good names to the marketing of everything from nicotine patches to pain relievers.

26.   Officials said smoking-cessation devices like nicotine patches would be available to inmates.

27.   Pregnant women are also being urged to avoid using nicotine patches.

28.   Perhaps, she suggests, nicotine patches would be an appropriate present on closing night.

29.   Quit-smoking aids, such as nicotine patches and gum, are highly cost-effective, according to a new study.

30.   Sanberg said the nicotine patch helped patients on whom haloperidol did not work well.