The best Nicotine therapy alternative I prefer best Is the Nick CQ 21 mg patch. I have tried all the other products such as the gums and the cheaper store brand patches. None absorb at the right level better
Than the Nick CQ patch. I also found that 50 percent of the withdrawal, is the other chemicals beside nicotine, and adjustment to the oxygen level increasing in your brain and blood stream. Once your normal oxygen level returns to normal and the additional chemicals are gone in a few days, sticking to the patch is no problem. It also lets you handle half the withdrawal symptoms instead of the whole impact of cold turkey.
I am not trying to discourage you from a full quit, but nicotine has a way of changing cells in the body, and some people are never able to quit smoking. Their body is programmed to accept the drug. It's like how an extra element Added to other elements can create new compounds. Like H2O is water, lets say that before you were a smoker, your cells were only made of H2. After prolonged nicotine exposure, lets say that nicotine equals H. Your cells are now forever H20. Whether this is true for you or not, some of us can't just beat the habit. However, I have finally learned I can be a non smoker as long as I am always wearing a patch.
Though nicotine patches such as Nick CQ are more expensive, after a few weeks I was able to cut down to the 7 mg patch. That's about the nicotine of 4 cigarettes a day. My body is use to it, and equally balanced at that level. It was much milder withdrawal, and much more able to cope with until I adjusted. The little bit a day I adjusted to, kept temptation away when exposed to other smokers second hand smoke.
I also wear it when I sleep to prevent morning cravings. On occasion, you may get a vivid dream or nightmare, but not often in most people.
The major dangers of smoking are the other chemicals added, the tar, and the carbon monoxide in the smoke. Settling for a 4 mg patch is a better alternative than trying to quit cold turkey or with the patch, only to eventually go back to smoking. Other cigarette chemicals, are ammonia, small traces of gun powder in the paper, a chemical used to make rat poison, DDT from tobacco spraying and many more. In ancient times, the real term for tobacco, was a poison plant called deadly nights shade. A drop of nicotine in its pure liquid form can kill an elephant.
Did you know that patches were created to encourage people to quit, and still fail. This makes smokers that much more willingly to believe they can never quit, I mean the more failures. How about considering staying on it permanently, but getting use to the lowest dose possible. Its when people stop the patch that most go back to smoking, so why stop if you honestly think its near impossible.
Don't forget that it was not your fault you started smoking. Since you were born, you've been brainwashed by ads, commercials, seeing it in society and movies. Did you know, that even many anti smoking campaigns were created by the smoking companies and aimed towards youngsters. They know that people want to do what their told not to do. They know the health scares of smoking cause stress and that stress makes you want a cigarette. It is a fact, that there are more cigarette butts on the ground of companies and hospitals dealing with lung cancer and cigarette quitting groups. Example is The American Lung association.
The good news also, is that I learned I can buy a 7 day supply of 21 mg patches for about 29.00, and can cut one patch into 4 equal pieces. I reseal the unused patches back in the packet with tape and make one 21 mg patch cut in 4 last me 4 days. Making a 29.00 box hold me over almost the whole month. I am saving
Almost 90.00 a month from if I were a pack a day smoker, or buying a month supply of step three 7 mg patches.
I know the instructions say if a packet is cut or open throw out and don't use. Well I think they just don't want people to realize that they can save more money on patches by buying the biggest one and cutting them. They work for me just as well as one that isn't cut, and I never felt like it dried out or ever overdosed me because it was cut. I have practiced this for several years. I unfortunately am one of those few that if I stop the patch, I am back to cigarettes in less than a month, and restarting the patches involves some minimal withdrawal.
