These Patches arn't working! Updated pg. 3

[Gonzo]

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Thanks for the cheer! I offically named my two kids my cheerleaders for this this morning. I told them I needed their help. my 8yr old isgoing to help me keep track of the days, I don't think RAWR cares one way or the other..

 

[Mrs. Green Thumbs]

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My DH got them too, the Dr told him he was NOT supposed to ware them to bed. That it's a VERY common side effect for people that did not take them off before bed.

 

[Joz]

When I would try to quit, or lapsed, and my nicotine levels were out of the norm (night out at a smoky club will do it also), I had very vivid dreams. I never used a patch.

I quit 3.5 years ago, from a pack-a-day. Managed to do it nearly cold turkey. I quit buying them, and would only smoke what I could bum for a couple weeks. Then I went to bum one in front of a friend who said "You don't NEED that, you know", and she was right, and I was done.

Once I realized how bad I smelled, and how nice it was to wake up and not feel like I'd been licking an ashtray all night, and how rude I'd been to non-smokers, it was that much more incentive to stay quit.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

I used them an lifesavers peppermints to quit. Vivid dreams are a normal side effect of the patches... I enjoyed the dreams so I has no trouble sleeping with the patches on but they say not to.

7 year quit now. Still get a slight craving now an then.

 

[Roy]

I am on day 25, they take the edge off but, you have to really want it. Don't wear patch to bed, it will give you nightmares. You don't smoke while you're asleep so why wear the patch. I finally did it!!!! after 30 years of smoking

 

[joedie]

The first 3 days are physical withdrawal and after that it's psychological but it all feels the same to you. Terrible! But hang in there, you can do it. When my DH and I quit, we started putting the amount of money we would have spent on cigs in the bank each week and saved it. We usually used it for the kids for Christmas but now with the price of cigarettes so high we can go on vacation. We still put the money away after all these years! Just think, for two people it comes to around $3600/year!

 

[humbtrfly]

hang in there!!! i had my last cigarette a year ago on April 13th. it took me about three times of trying to quit before i succeeded and it has only been the last few months that i don't think about them all the time. i had smoked for over 30 years. i do not believe that it is so much a physical addiction as it is a mental addiction. i had to stay busy all the time with my hands and then i would stop and go wandering around not knowing what i stopped for and then would realize i was looking to smoke a cigarette. weird but it is over and i am much happier as non-smoker! don't give up! and good luck to those of you who are planning to quit!!!!

 

[Backyard_Chicken_rancher]

I have been a non-smoker for a year now 4/21/09 I did it with Chantix, I tried the patches and smoked even more on them.

I can tell you this for all the good it will do for you (I know I went through the angry stage as well) I haven't had a smoke in 1 year now but what I did find is that walmart sells double bubble gum in buckets and it so helped me when I needed a smoke I would a piece of gum even a year later I am still chewing but it does take the place have doing something with your mouth and it does help to take the edge off besides I can tell you being a recovering smoker you will feel better when it is all said and done you won't notice it right away but you will when you laugh or walk up steps or play with the kids/grandkids working in the yard you will notice in time the air is better you can breath deeper BUT I WARN YOU NOW food will taste different it will explode with flavor. and you will find that you don't need that salt or seasonings (as much as you used in the past) on your food now and when you run wow what a differance it will make I chase my chickens for the exercise the wife laughs at me but I do it because I can without breathing hard or feeling like my heart is going to explode out of my chest or my lungs feeling liek someone has a hold of thenm and chocking me at the same time.
In short I no longer am sucking air when I walk or run and I breath alot easier and smell and taste are back I do chew a buttload of gum but at least it won't kill me as fast as my smoking would have.

The doctor told me before I quit I was useing about only 45-50% of my lungs now afetr a year I have moved it up to 75-80% of my lung power so we shall see what is to come in the years ahead.
I know and am well aware of what you are going through trust that and I will tell you you can do it belive me if I can so can you, I kept 2 smokes in a pack I figured it took more will power to not smoke them then it did to smoke them and Iwas bigger, older, and stronger then those 2 smokes were so I was not going to let them beat me in any way and they didn't so what you need to do is figure out are you stronger or weaker then them smokes? I know you are stronger then they are so tell yourself you don't need it when you want one just breath deep a few times and tell yourself "I DO NOT NEED TO SMOKE I HAVE MY HEALTH WIFE/HUSBAND/KIDS/GRANDKIDS TO WORRY ABOUT YOU WILL NOT BEAT ME I AM STRONGER THEN YOU ARE"

Good luck to you and feel free to PM or e-mail if you need to talk to someone who has been there.

 

[Backyard_Chicken_rancher]

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We did stink didn't we? You just don't realize it when your doing it at the time, my ahha moment came when I walked out on my porch to enjoy the sun and fresh air and I smelled something that just stunk to high heaven (wife didn't smoke so I did it outside) I searched for a bit and then I found it.......My ashtray OMG the smell that was comeing from that thing, I can't tell you how bad it smelled I wanted to puke. I called my wife over and said is this what I smelled like she said "yes sometimes even worse" I told her I was sorry and realized how bad I stunk now I smell what non-smokers smelled and I tell the smokers they stink and need to quit.

 

[Gonzo]

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Awesome!