The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services requires explicit documentation of smoking cessation for the hospital system to bill for services
Additionally, you could consider this as a fair compromise between the two differing opinions
Smoking while using a nicotine patch is strongly discouraged
[PubMed: 18615350] Riggs NR, Chou CP, Li C, Pentz MA
If public health is serious about saving lives, it must stop treating nicotine as the enemy and start confronting the real culprit: the cigarette
Famously the most public of private men and vice-versa (which was only part of his peculiar genius for longevity), he could joke, I will not even talk to myself without an appointment. While openly on display for three decades of nocturne, he was at the same time barely spotted anywhere outside of television screenswhich was how he liked it, then and ever after