I have been diagnosed with a thoracic aortic aneurysm.  I have been on the nicotine patch for the last two weeks.  Should I be using the patch or can it affect the aneurysm.  I have had an MRI last week but have not found out the results, but from a CT scan, it looks like it is 4 centimeters.

Summarized question: Can nicotine patch be used when suffering from thoracic aortic aneurysm?