Re: Don't try this at home

I TOTALLY relate!!!! I have done the 7 mg. patch and today since I was
going to be home I tried to do it with no patch thinking since I have done
good that it would not be bad. OMG!!! Threw me for a loop. I had to nap
and regroup and do my best to try to cope~~~~ I made it by the skin of my
skinnnny skin skin!!! If there were butts I would have smoked them. I am
doing my best to regroup my mind and do what I have been doing for the past
week and three days. Breathing, Taking Vitamins, Walking, Being here and in
Chat..... Doing my best to put my mind in the same place that has worked for
me for a week........If that does not work then the patch I will do.....Hang
tight there is other real people feeling the same hell......
One week, two days, 22 hours, 44 minutes and 14 seconds. 198 cigarettes not
smoked, saving $39.79. Life saved: 16 hours, 30 minutes.


--mibabet

Don't be afraid that your life will end,
be afraid that it will never begin.
~anonymous

<nannyogg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Really. Don't try doing what I tried doing, which is to decide that
when you've been knocked off your feet with a sinus infection &
concomitant feeling-like-death-done-over ... that it's a good moment to
give up the NRT patches after 7 weeks on the grounds that since you're
feeling bad anyway, you won't notice feeling a bit worse. When you
already know that you *did* notice a lot feeling worse when you stepped
down from 15mg to 7mg a mere 8 days previously.

WRONG !!!

You flaming well do notice. And how ! So does every other poor sod
unfortunate enough to cross your path or be dragged into it.
(Hopefully its okay, because they didn't recognise "you" in your
temporary guise as the creature from the dark depths.)

What you do is, you deal with feeling ill first. You get better. Like
clever Maude says, you give yourself time to heal. Then, gradually,
like you're supposed to, you come off the NRT patches ... when you feel
ready. And if, like me, you DID come off the patches for 3 days, only
to find that when you returned to wandering around the house it was all
hell-on-holiday ... and ONLY a cigarette would cure it, then remember
that too is ...

WRONG !!!

A cigarette won't cure it. But resuming use of a patch will take the
edge off things sufficient to return to managing the quit. I
re-patched a while ago. Whether its placebo or what, I don't know. I
don't care either really, because I've stopped weeping & wailing. The
compulsive urge to TELL all & sundry in real & virtual life *precisely*
how abandoned, isolated, worthless, lonely, weepy & whatever I feel has
passed.

I am back on track again.

I didn't smoke !!!

The quit is preserved by the skin of its teeth & frankly, if I have to
continue putting bits of sticky-backed plastic on myself for the next 6
months to keep it preserved ... I don't care.

I didn't smoke !!!

That's all that counts :)

I DIDN'T SMOKE !!!!!


Judy

Now at

One month, three weeks, one day, 19 hours, 40 minutes and 49 seconds.
538 cigarettes not smoked, saving £148.00. Life saved: 1 day, 20
hours, 50 minutes.

Phew !


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