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

[JonesCarpeDiem]

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.

[froguelady]

Good blog and great advice.

[brenda61]

nothing to fear but the fear itself

[Breakinchains]

I used the patch for about three weeks, and I got so tired of slapping that thing on my arm every morning that one day I just said heck with it I don't want to do this any more, and I did just fine. By then I was down to the 7mg dose which isn't much anyway, so it wasn't much of a step to just stop using it. In my case I didn't forget it, I just decided to stop using it. But I know that a lot of people have forgotten to use it and done just fine without it. 

[joy36]

I used it a couple of week's. It made my skin so itchy, when I wore it, and for day's afterward's, I think that it was just a reminder all the time I couldn't smoke. It was great when I just quit wearing it !!!

[joy36]

I used it a couple of week's. It made my skin so itchy, when I wore it, and for day's afterward's, I think that it was just a reminder all the time I couldn't smoke. It was great when I just quit wearing it !!!

[johio]

Very Good Advice

[Jordan-11-1-12]

I used the patch for a few weeks. What I read in Allen Carr's book and on whyquit.com about NRTs made me decide that I was torturing myself by feeding my addiction small amounts of nicotine and I decided that I wanted done. I learned that I still had to get through the 72 hours it takes for nicotine to get out of my system and decided that I didn't want to prolong that any longer.  The second and third day without the patch, I had craves, but I was ready for them, and then it was done. Stopping the patch was the best thing I've done for my quit, aside from joining this site.