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Patches, gum, inhalers and now even water, we hear.

Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) is easy to come by as it is usually an off the shelf product in any grocery or drug store. It is also the most highly tried (and failed) product because it is so easy to procure.

NRT suppliers state that it doubles your chances of quitting. That is all fine and good but you need to know the full facts. Cold turkey and willpower methods have a mere 3% chance of success, so to be quite blunt, doubling those figures is somewhat less than encouraging.

The main problem with NRT’s is that you are trying to break your addiction to nicotine, so how can ingesting more nicotine be helping? Most people find using NRT’s extremely stressful as well as your body never really gets a chance to see what life is like without the addiction. So when you do fail, most fall hard and don’t make the attempt to quit again for quite some time. But it still surprises us how many people fail to quit using these methods and yet still try them again and again and again. What a waste.That’s the power of advertising that the big pharmaceutical companies have.

We think you have a better chance with the programs listed above because they really want you to quit the first time, not to keep buying their product over and over.

Pros:

• Doubles your chances

• Easy to buy and use

Cons:

• Nicotine based

• Patches cause rashes

• Can become addicted to patches or gum

• Limited support if any

• No guarantees