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Aim At Getting Off The Drug....the pacifier mentality with the nrt is not going to free you from smoking

JonesCarpeDiem
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it can help if it's used right but you can't pump it in your system every time you get a crave and ever break free.

Nicotine binds us to smoking. Without nicotine we would probably not have remained smokers. That feeling it gives us is what keeps us coming back.

there is a physical bond to nicotine but there is a psychogical bond that grows stronger the longer we build up fear of letting it go.

If you turn to nicotine everytime you hit a rough patch in your quit after that first month you may be doing harm to your quit. I'm speaking more to the use of the self controlled dosing types of NRT.

It wasn't meant to be used willy nilly as in 3 days one week and one day the next then not use it for three weeks and then start back using it again.

When you use it incorrectly you are reenforcing your body's need for it. Use it to unlearn the physical act of smoking and then have some faith in yourself and get off of it.  If you find you got off of it too soon, go back but DON'T BE A YO-YO with it. Those cravings will keep coming as long as you are addicted to it.

Do you think the addict part of you that "needs" the drug will ever let it go If you never plant the seed in your mind that you want to be free of it?

Use it to soften the physical cravings while you unlearn your triggers just don't let it use you. Freedom from smoking means being free of the physical addiction too.

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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.