Ralph, you can do an internet search yourself and learn exactly what I would tell you as far as what the drug manufacturers recommend or don't recommend as far as combining NRTs. There's information on this site about that very topic. What I have to tell you has nothing to do with that and all to do with what YOU think you need to get through the "difficult times."
Understand that there is no drug that will take away the "difficult times." Wish there were, but there just isn't. We would like to fade into mind oblivion when craving come upon us. Doesn't happen. (Except in the beginning for some of us who have the luxury of sleeping it away.) The nicotine replacement "therapies" only lessen the desire. They don't get rid of it. They tamp it down is all. The only thing that comes close to getting rid of it is time. For TIME is the real only cure. You have to remain smoke free long enough, you have to stay on the path straight as an arrow, you have to agree to no excuses, you have to give up the possibility of smoking in your life to overcome it. This is the truth. There is nothing out there (at least as of yet), that will hand your quit to you. I so wish there was.
Ralph, do you want to quit or do you wish you could smoke? You can't do both. You have to choose one. And when you choose it, it has to be with all of you.
