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The Patch. I used it and I would like to relate a couple of things for you to consider.

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎11-07-2015 11:36 AM

1. The Patch will not stop you from thinking of smoking.

How could it?  Most of the cigarettes we smoke a day we don't remember.

Smoking has become automatic.

Knowing this, how could the patch break the automatic unconscious thought that is connected to everything we've done as smokers rolling around in our heads?

2. The patch will not keep you from smoking.

People do it all the time. They are quit while using the patch but they start thinking of smoking and choose to smoke. Then, quits later, they will say "I tried the patch and it didn't work for me"

The patch is an AID until you are clear headed enough to learn what it won't do and what you must do. You are the biggest part of your quit. You are the only one that can make you smoke.

It isn't meant to be used forever.

People who build a dependence on it can turn it into a psychological dependence because of the physical relief.

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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.