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You may think the gum (or other self dosing NRT) is keeping you from smoking.

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎09-20-2015 08:37 AM

what they do is temporarily satisfy your addiction to nicotine.

You are the one who keeps yourself from smoking. You are the one who has control of your hands, not the NRT.

If you are using a piece of gum everytime a mental connection drives the urge to smoke, you may likely be ingesting much more nicotine than what you ever got from smoking.

If you start doing that you are setting yourself up for a lifetime of NRT addiction by believing that is what is keeping you from smoking.

They will help if you don't believe they are all that's between you and a cigarette.

It doesn't help to become even more addicted to nicotine by overdoing it.

Keep Them Away From Your Face with your hands.

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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.