Well, I quit smoking, but now...

[Cirrus]

how the hell do I get off the Nicorette? I've been using it for around 14 weeks now (2 longer than you're actually supposed to) and I can't get past 4 or 5 pieces a day. I know I was supposed to be at one piece every 4-8 hours at 12 weeks but I just can't do it. I still want to smoke and if I weren't using the gum I probably would be.

Anyone have any ideas?

 

[Texan]

hello slutmouth

I sometimes use Nicorette gum to help with really long flights. I read recently that over 50% of the Nicorette being purchased is not by people wanting to quit smoking, but instead by people using it to handle long periods when they can't smoke.

I can't imagine using the gum for weeks on end. The stuff burns my throat too much. If you are actually chewing the stuff, you could be getting more nicotene than you would from smoking.

It may be possible that you have an oral fixation. I sure do. I find that regular chewing gum can help me with long smokless periods just about as well as Nicorette.

Good luck, and if you've gone 14 weeks without, don't start back on the smokes....

 

[RudeNastyAssBitch]

My Goodness!

The Restraint Is Boggling Ta Me!

I Have Been Horribly Unsuccessful At Fighting The Death Sticks

What I Require Is A LONG Vacation Where The Only Tabacco Ta Smoke Is Turkish And Someone Punches Me In The Mouth Everytime They See A Toxic Tube Stuck So Ugly Like In My Dirty, Filthy Mouth!

Great Going SlutMouth Keep It Up!
If You Wanna Go On That Vacation With Me, I Would Be Quite Grateful

 

[SunnyGirl]

I tried Nicorette too, and found that after a while, regular chewing gum, or even tootsie pops helped calm the urge to smoke down. It was having something in my mouth and in the case of the tootsie pops, having something to play with that helped....


(I can just see the comments that will be made about this now -lol)

 

[Comshaw]

Over thirty odd years of smoking I tried numerous times to quit. I used the gum and patch when they first went on the market, with no success. I could abstain from smoking but when I quit the gum, or stopped using the patch, it wasn't long before I was puffing up a storm again. I finally tried Zyban. Took it for almost six months and cut down to about 4 smokes a day. One day I realized I either had to stop with the smokes or go back to using a couple of packs a day. That was two years and 11 days ago. Haven't had a smoke since. Yes there are times that I really, really want one, but the old "one day at a time" concept serves me well. For some of us, who are totally addicted to nicotine, there comes a point where you have to either hold on by our fingernails and just stop, or quit trying to quit and start puffing. I've made it this far and refuse to start again. Some times that's the only thing that works; "I'll try to hold on for another hour." The hours stretch to days, then to weeks and before you know it, it's years. Put down the gum, but prepare for a struggle. It ain't easy, but it is well worth it.
Hang in there and I really hope you win.
Comshaw

 

[Cirrus]

Thanks all....it hasn't been easy and I've only smoked for 10 years. Only...haha...I know, but compared to some people that's not long.

I quit just because I got sick of it. A lot of my friends are athletes, and I want to be able to run or swim with them, and there is no reason why I shouldn't be able to run up the stairs to my apartment without getting winded. But I am orally fixated, half the cigarettes I smoked I didn't even want, it was just habit. And I think that's part of why I still want a smoke now.

I tried the patch, but it made me sick. Really dizzy and sweaty and shit, just like when I started smoking and I'd have a cigarette after a few days w/o one.

Texan, you're right...the gum is evil stuff, tastes rotten and burns, but it's the only thing that's worked. Still it seems like my mind has this bias that if I have regular gum in my mouth instead of Nicorette it doesn't do it.

Maybe I'll give my doc a call or something.

Thanks again.

 

[morninggirl5]

I've never smoked, but it makes sense that you're getting more nicotine from the gum than from the actual cigarrettes. You might try three fourths a piece of Nicorrette and one piece of a mild flavored gum and slowly decrease the size of the Nicorrette piece.

When I HAD to go without caffeine, it was the way I got myself off of it for a couple of months. Gradually mixed in the decaf stuff.

 

[The_old_man]

After thirty years of smoking I decided to quit. Three weeks later my wife bought me a carton of cigs. Her reason...cigs were cheaper than a divorce.

Tryed again two years later... lasted a week befor I began to sneek one every day, or hour ...etc.

Finaly six years later I was scheduled for surgery. At the time I was up to three pacs a day and begining to have breathing problems. Made the disision that I WAS going to quit so I bought my LAST carton, started puting the thing back in the pack till I was down to the LAST pack. Continued putting them back untill that LAST cigarette. For the next six months my wife would give me one Nicorette when she needed to get me off the wall. I haven't smoked anything since.

It aint easy! But if you realy want to quit , It can be done.

 

[The_old_man]

P.S.

That last cig was in 1984!

 

[batter]

just wondering

if you are still having cravings, why not try the Habitrol patch at the lowest dose of 7 mg?

you will have to avoid the Nicorette gum but it may be a low enough dose that you will not get cravings.

 

[Guest]

Re: just wondering

if you are still having cravings, why not try the Habitrol patch at the lowest dose of 7 mg?

you will have to avoid the Nicorette gum but it may be a low enough dose that you will not get cravings.

The patch worked great for me and I have been smoke free for 10 months.