Who Uses Nicorette?

[Burma Jones]

I quit smoking eight years ago but I still chew 2 or 3 pieces of that foul tasting gum every day. I am told that nicotene kind of lubricates your synapses (so to speak) so perhaps I just need the brain lube. But, I swear, I still want to smoke, after all this time.

[metisnation]

1. the patch

I did it with the patch one day i just forgot to wear in and just ended up quitting.

[Catholic Sensation]

2. dolo amber said it was like abc gum

BUT THERE'S A MINT FLAVOR!

[Malva Zebrina]

3. Quit smoking a year ago April

smoked for forty years and up to two packs ,sometimes more, a day. Still am fighting not to smoke almost every day.:eyes: The other day I was involved in a project and while working on it,automatically, reached for my pack of cigarettes. Of course there was none, but the habit was there still. Too expensive is now the motivation to not smoke, although I do not know what happened to all the money I used to spend on cigarettes. :-) I never saw any of it after I stopped either.

as a psychological tool, I told myself that when I reach the age of eighty I will resume smoking. This is just a way of making myself believe that it is not a permanent thing.

[Habibi]

7. Heh. I do that too.

Only my "start-again" date is 70, because that's the age around which both parents died. I figure anything after 70 is a gift, so not only am I going to start smoking again (assuming I can afford it!), I'm going to eat whatever I damn well please! Bags of Oreos, here I come!

[Rowdyboy]

4. I used nicorette gum

Gave up cigarettes slowly (3 pk a day/18 years). Started out with filters that reduced nicotine. After a FULL YEAR on the filters I quit and went to nicorettes (1992). I chewed that damn gum for about a year before I switched to bubblegum and later dropped it altogether.

Two smokefree years later when my 29 year old baby brother was murdered by his estranged wife, my first stop was to buy nicorette gum. After I survived that week (1995), I've never needed it. But its still available if I ever do...

[mitchum]

5. I found it hard to keep them lit

[Habibi]

6. I used to

Used it for pert-near 3 years after quitting smoking. Then I decided to go on the Atkins diet to lose about 20 pounds and figured the gum added too many carbs. So, I went on the patch to get off the gum. I tell people this and they think it's hilarious.

Unfortunately, I believe you will always want to smoke, no matter how long you are off the things. Think that's just the nature of that particular addiction. That's okay, though: I frequently want mashed potatoes but due to my diet choices, I can't have them. I manage to live a good life, anyway . . .

[Nevernose]

8. The lozenge works better

Both my personal experience and the American Cancer Society back me up. The inhaler, combined with the anti-depressant (Zyban? Somehting simialr?) has a success rate of about 50%, though, compared with the 3-5% success rate of cold turkey.

I started smoking again, though, after about six months. I met this woman, you see, and she smoked, and the rest was history...