Nicotine Replacement Therapy
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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:
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Doubles your chances
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Easy to buy and use
Cons:
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Nicotine based
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Patches cause rashes
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Can become addicted to patches or gum
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Limited support if any
- No guarantees
i am interested in inhalers to quit smoking. please send me specific information.
Hi Michael,
I wouldn’t be able to send you any information on using inhalers because we don’t believe using a nicotine replacement product is your best option, therefore we don’t provide any information on the inhalers.
Sorry,
Chris
Since I quit smoking using this method - I highly recommend it. Using nicotine gum I was able to quit smoking, yes I got addicted to the gum but I feel it was a lot better than being addicted to cigarettes. Also, I was able to get off the nicotine gum by using regular gum.
Getting off the nicotine gum is so much easier because the cravings aren’t as strong, at least they weren’t for me.
As we know that NRT therapy does not have a high rate of success, we must stand behind our recommendations. However we are very happy that you succeeded using this method. For in the end, it doesn\’t matter how you quit, just that you did.
Chris
Hi,
I agree with your recommendations regarding NRT, however for all those hardened smokers there is another less well known method.
This is to use the Swedish Snuss. This can be puchased in the form of little tea bag like portions and after just a few days I managed to stop for a whole month. Then sadly I was given 1400 cigarettes and ….
Hmm…never heard of this, but if it works, okay.
Too bad you didn\’t stay quit. Hate to tell you, but those 1400 cigarettes were definitely not FREE!
Here\’s to you quitting again.
Chris
i would realy like too QUIT but I cant aford the patchs or any thing else please help if you can mike
Hi Mike,
I would really like to help you, so the first thing I would suggest is that you need to change your mindset to being a non-smoker. You say you can\’t afford any stop smoking aids, but you can afford to smoke? Doesn\’t add up.
Not trying to be unhelpful, but until you decide that quitting smoking is more important than not, no program or patch will help.
Respectfully,
Chris
i saw these electric cigs, the atomizer ones. i saw it at the mall and tried one and it was to bad. what about using those with the 0mg nicotine?
Hi Mike,
Haven’t had much to do with them other than knowing two people who are using them at the moment. The one strange thing that they both said is that they were concerned that they may not be able to get refills in the future if the FDA bans them. So not really sure what all that is about.
Chris