clever_plant
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"Fiveshot's dead-on 100% right that you cannot put nicotine into your system to beat nicotine addiction. Clearly that is faulty logic. It keeps Nicorette and Nicoderm in big business, though. All these patch-wearing lozenge-sucking gum-chewing people are simply in constant nicotine withdrawal because they keep putting nicotine in their blood."
I'm sorry but this is bull. Last time I read up on statistics the success rate of people using nicotine products to quit smoking were around 4-5 times higher than those who do any other quitting attempt. Granted you then have to quit nicotine too afterwards, but the theory is, amongst people who work in hospitals with helping people quit their smokes, that seperating it into two different tasks that aren't done at the same time, makes it easier for a lot of people. First task is quitting all the habits like hand movements, sucking, the feeling in the throat etc. Second task is dropping nicotine. For a lot of people dropping nicotine is actually the easy part. So the "this is faulty logic" arguments is actually faulty logic. You are not quitting nicotine when you quit smoking, you are quitting smoking which is a lot more than just nicotine addiction.
Another pretty constant factor in success stories seems to be an actual desire to do it. But that goes for almost any patient-operated treatment.
So, motivation, and whatever works for you. The more times you try the more likely you are to succeed, and never ever listen to anyone who tells you that some way of quitting is "wrong", because if it works for you, it works for you. And there is pretty much no single thing any smoker can do, that will improve their health more, than quitting smoking.
Anyways, I've quit twice (yeah, twice as awesome, I know
first time I simply did a cold turkey and that worked out ok. Second time I used nicotine stuff and did the whole "quit the habits first, then the nicotine" and that also worked fine for me, haven't smoked for around 2 years now.
I'm sorry but this is bull. Last time I read up on statistics the success rate of people using nicotine products to quit smoking were around 4-5 times higher than those who do any other quitting attempt. Granted you then have to quit nicotine too afterwards, but the theory is, amongst people who work in hospitals with helping people quit their smokes, that seperating it into two different tasks that aren't done at the same time, makes it easier for a lot of people. First task is quitting all the habits like hand movements, sucking, the feeling in the throat etc. Second task is dropping nicotine. For a lot of people dropping nicotine is actually the easy part. So the "this is faulty logic" arguments is actually faulty logic. You are not quitting nicotine when you quit smoking, you are quitting smoking which is a lot more than just nicotine addiction.
Another pretty constant factor in success stories seems to be an actual desire to do it. But that goes for almost any patient-operated treatment.
So, motivation, and whatever works for you. The more times you try the more likely you are to succeed, and never ever listen to anyone who tells you that some way of quitting is "wrong", because if it works for you, it works for you. And there is pretty much no single thing any smoker can do, that will improve their health more, than quitting smoking.
Anyways, I've quit twice (yeah, twice as awesome, I know
first time I simply did a cold turkey and that worked out ok. Second time I used nicotine stuff and did the whole "quit the habits first, then the nicotine" and that also worked fine for me, haven't smoked for around 2 years now.