Is there a scientific connection between nicotine and dreaming...

... the reason i ask is a while back i was trying to quit smoking and was on nicotine patches, (unsuccessfully for anyone interested) and i got home one day at 8pm and hadnt had a patch on all day. So i put one on and went to bed shortly afterwards. I had some really intense dreams that night and kept waking up from them. I can vividly remember 5 of them (more than i can ever remember in one night). At first i thought it must just have been something psycological. I did the same thing a little while later and the same thing happened. Then my friend told me that when he was on the patch he had wicked dreams as well (i hadnt told him of my experience). Is there a connection between nicotine (Patches) and dreaming?