There are plenty of people who have gone cold turkey here and been successful.
I can only relate my own experience with the patch.
I thought about quitting a month before and began saying, "dale wait a little longer"
I saw I wasn't buying cigarettes as often, which gave me a feeling of POWER
which in turn, got me to the last pack I bought one friday afternoon. I knew it was the last.
I quit the next tuesday at 7:15am.
In 40 years, I had never tried to quit before.
I had no knowlege of quitting whatsover except my experimentation during the month before my quit
with waiting longer between smokes,
So, I got the patch as a security blanket.
It was a great thing for me because I put my faith in it.
If I was feeling like I might smoke I always had one with me.
It was that belief in them that kept me calm, real or imagined
Like I said I didn't know anything before I quit so I was winging it.
There were 4 days (and not in a row) during my first 14 days that I forgot to put on a patch.
I could've driven home and put it on if I needed it but rather, I just experienced those days without them..
I began to laugh, chuckle or smile each time i craved from the 3rd day forward.
You see, I realized smoking was just a decision each and every time. That gave me POWER.
I listened and my body and mind came to the agreement that I no longer needed them
after the first two weeks. I found a quit smoking site after I had stopped using the patch.
I kept one in my wallet fot the next few months like a teenager who thought he might get lucky.
I never needed it but it was always there to calm my mind.
So I say, It's all in what you believe. Your mind is where the power is.
