Fatwa ID: 06568
Answered by: Maulana Mohammed Dilwar Hussain
Question:
Can we use nicotine patches while fasting?
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
Answer:
A nicotine patch is a transdermal patch that releases nicotine into the bloodstream through absorption via the skin. This relieves the unpleasant nicotine withdrawal symptoms. [1]
The general rule of thumb to remember is that anything which exits your body breaks your Wudhu and anything which enters your body breaks your fast.
The condition with fasting is that it has to be something which nourishes the body by reaching the stomach or captivates the brain and enters through one of the naturally open bodily passages to nullify the fast which nicotine patches do not do. [Radd Ul-Muhtaar; volume 2, page 410] [2]
Only Allāh Ta’ālā knows best.
Written by Maulana Mohammed Dilwar Hussain
Checked and approved by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah
Darul Ifta Birmingham
[2] (أو دواء) ما يتداوى به والضابط وصول ما فيه صلاح بدنه لجوفه
