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One Easy Natural Way To Get Off The Patch (What has your experience been?)

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎11-30-2012 03:09 PM

One day you'll realize you forgot to use your patch.

Now, you can panic or you can go without it.

If you go without it you may make it just fine through the day even after you realized you hadn't put it on.

Then a couple days later. It happens again.

Well you might start thinking "gee I did ok again!" and i didn't have my patch on.

Well then, you gotta know if these were flukes or not so you intentionally do not use one.

It's just that simple. There's no real frustration when it happens naturally.

I decided i would keep one in my wallet and I promised myself  if I wanted to smoke again, I would put on that patch on instead of lighting up.

I carried that patch in my wallet for a year.

I hope this helps some of you understand that getting off the patch does not have to be a panic process.

You don't have to fear it. Once you decide and get to that point, there's no need to fear it.

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Hello, My name is Dale. I was quit 18 months before joining this site and had participated on another site during that time. I learned a lot there and brought it with me. I joined this site the first week of August 2008. I didn't pressure myself to quit. HOW I QUIT I didn't count, I didn't deny myself to get started. When I considered quitting (at a friends request to influence his brother to quit), I simply told myself to wait a little longer. No denial, nothing painful. After 4 weeks I was down to 5 cigarettes from a pack a day. The strength came from proving to myself, I didn't need to smoke because I normally would have smoked. Simple yes? I bought the patch. I forgot to put one on on the 4th day. I needed it the next day but the following week I forgot two days in a row I put one in my wallet with a promise to myself that I would slap it on and wait an hour rather than smoke. It rode in my wallet my first year.There's nothing keeping any of you from doing this. It doesn't cost a dime. This is about unlearning something you've done for a long time. The nicotine isn't the hard part. Disconnecting from the psychological pull, the memories and connected emotions is. :-) Time is the healer.