evidence: In May 2024, a Facebook reel with over 350,000 views claimed that nicotine patches can cure Parkinson’s disease. In the reel, chiropractor Bryan Ardis shared the alleged testimony of a person who claimed "all of his Parkinson’s symptoms disappeared" after using the patches for seven days and had "been told by his neurologist he no longer has Parkinson." [...] Likewise, it is false that nicotine patches cure Parkinson’s, a chronic neurological disease that currently has no cure. While nicotine patches have been researched as a potential therapeutic strategy in people with Parkinson’s, the results from clinical trials don’t support their use for treating the disease. We explain below. [...] Parkinson’s is currently a chronic, incurable disease. Therefore, claims that any product, including nicotine patches, cures Parkinson’s are false. Nicotine has demonstrated some neuroprotective effects in preliminary studies in animals. While these effects might serve as a starting point for developing new treatments for Parkinson’s, evidence so far indicates that nicotine patches aren’t effective as a Parkinson’s treatment.