4r3s's quitting smoking Journal

4r3s

day 5 = success. I find myself on occasion, like after dinner, walking subconciously over to where I used to keep my smokes at home, look in the basket and see no smokes, and then think to myself "oh yeah, I don't smoke anymore." Still breaking the mental habit thats for sure. I know I'm only on day 6 and these things take time.

So this morning I totally forgot to put my patch on. I stepped out the door started the car, and I sat that there. Something didn't feel right and it took me a few minutes to figure it out. Thankfully I caught myself before it was too late and went back inside and put the patch on. Today could have been a pretty rough day had I truly forgotten.

spinhead

You should probably put a spare patch in your wallet or your car. It would suck *** to leave for work having forgotten to put a patch on.

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4r3s

probably a good idea.

TJ - I've tried cold turkey a few times and failed miserably, like only a few hours miserably. The patch is designed with 3 steps, each step gradually reduces the amount of nicotine your body receives. So weening off the patch is built into the system. In total its a 10 week process: 6 weeks step 1, 2 weeks step 2, and 2 weeks step 3. I've been debating cutting 2 weeks off step 1 but I really want to be comitted to this so I think for once I am just going to follow the directions to the letter. I mean seriously 10 weeks is a drop in the bucket compared to smoking the rest of my life.