nicotine patch
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- brains0
Get past the first week. It'll get easier after it gets harder.
- ********0
good advice
- mikotondria30
I had heard all the horror stories about Chantix, and reading up that it did indeed moderate dopamine release related to acetyl choline pathway type thing, I thought it sounded they knew what they were doing, having had a keen hobby in moderating my dopamine and serotonin for many years, by many means, all set to loud techno music.
And I really wanted to stop smoking cause it's a pointless, dirty stupid thing to do, that you only do to stop yourself wanting to smoke -- I'd worked out..
So after a couple of days, I was literally wanting to smoke less and less, and by the end of 'week 1', I really thought I could do it.. I'd never event tried to give up over the 15 years that I had been smoking, not once, and this stuff really worked.... I didn't WANT to smoke. When I did, it was like smoking clay, or cardboard, or paper - not the pleasant, deep rich warm of a marlboro red...and so on my 'quit date', I didnt have a cigarette, and honestly of course it was all I could 'think' about, that is - not having one. Not in the next minute, not right now - and again - I literally didnt 'want' one, that familiar feeling or tension, the metallic taste in the mouth, the fidgeting, the shallow breathing - all the cues that normally signalled me smoke had gone...
So after the first few days, I thought about it less and less, I became less fixated on not smoking - it was easy, I thought there was a catch, but I really was 'not smoking', the same feeling as when you first pedal down the road on your 2 wheel bike, or swim a width of the pool without floats - hey ! I can do this, look - I can do it!!...It was feeling like balancing on a beam and staying there, balanced, calmly, rather than the previous smoking routine of getting up on there, knowing you're going to fall off.
Not smoking really is, with this treatment certainly, just a change of habit - and that's hard enough anyway -
Now Im several weeks into being a proper non-smoker, I've lost count of the days, I dont even think of myself AS a nonsmoker, I dont think about it at all.
I need less sleep, I sleep better, I wake up happier - not fixating on my first cig of the day, I wake up and take a large, smooth, deep breath that doesnt rattle with phlegm, I can walk quicker, for longer and it feels better, I can taste food like I used to when I was a kid - fish is just spectacular, and I can stay in places you can't smoke almost indefinately without constantly scheming times and ways to get outside...
It's just fantastic being a non-smoker, ditch the patches and the gum - you just remain addicted, get a prescription for this stuff - the only side effect I had so far has been lucid, vivid dreams and a mild stimulant effect similar to a small bump of coke or ritalin for an hour or so..
Honestly it's one of the best things I've done in a long time, please have a go..
- ********0
"lucid, vivid dreams"
could you give an example?
- ********0
no patch today
I am freaking out!
- Sunflower seeds, bottle of water, you need something to fixate on orally.brains
- boobs0
Every time you think about a having a cigarette, just kiss the person next to you.
- elPaulo0
is there a crack patch?
- ********0
meth patch
- ukit0
Dude get the gum. It will give you a fresh injection of nicotine. Just remember, chew and park, chew and park.
- ********0
I honestlycan not tell the difference. I thinks it's psychological
- jaylarson0
you'll be ok.
