I have smoked cigarettes and cigars for as long as I can remember. Since high school actually. Remember when smoking was not a big deal? What about when anyone could be cigarettes? I am not anti-smoke. If you want to smoke, by all means smoke. I even enjoy being around people who smoke. I still enjoy the smell of a cigarette or a good (or even a bad) cigar.
On January 1, 2007 I decided to quit smoking. Yes I know it is corny but it was my New Years Resolution. I have tried to quit several times in the past and have always been unsuccessful. The longest I ever actually quit for was for a week, one of the longest weeks of my life. This time though I decided I would try to get some help from a patch.
Most of the patch programs that I checked out were 3 step programs and nearly all of them were the same, just different brand names. “Step 1″ releases 21 mg of nicotine into your system over a 24 hour period, “Step 2″ 14 mg, and “Step 3″ 7 mg. The patches are transdermal, which means they deliver the dose of nicotine through your skin.
Since I did not smoke that much I started out with Step 2. The first few days really were not that bad. I had cravings for a smoke but they were pretty easy to ignore. After about 2 weeks into it I really had some major cravings, especially during stressful situations at work.
I finished “Step 2″ of the patch and moved on the “Step 3″. As time went on the cravings got much easier to control. I believe that the patches really helped with this - that and cases of chewing gum.
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It has been just shy of 2 months now since I quit smoking. I have finished the Step 2 and 3 of the patches. I have slipped up twice, just here recently when we were having some big (stressful) problems at work. I don’t know I just thought I had to have one so I did. I have to tell you it didn’t really help so I do not think that will happen again.One other thing about it, and I know it has not even been 2 months yet, I really thought I would start feeling better pretty quickly. I thought that maybe I would notice something about it would be easier to breath or whatever. Well so far no real difference there. My clothes do smell better and my mustache has lost the stains from the cigars.I am glad that I quit smoking, the patch really did help.
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