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This post is in relation to the Stop Smoking Article, specifically if you find a good supply of legitimate nicotine replacment products at a low cost, such as patches, gum, microtabs, lozenges, nasal spray or inhalators.
pounland often does them, niquitin cq gum for a pound a packet at both strengths but they only seem to have them in every so often.
Fr. Stack: While you were out, I got the keys to your car. And drove it into a big wall. And if you don't like it, tough. I've had my fun, and that's all that matters.
Nasty side effects like what? Skin irritation is possible, nightmares/dodgy dreams with the 24hour patches.
Most important thing is to remove the old patch before putting the next one on. Someone told me a story about a man who went into the chemists to complain he had nowhere to put his next patch on - he'd just been adding one each day and was wearing about 30 nicotine patches...
I have been using patches since saturday but they are 16 hour ones. I get redness but my main issue has been sleep disturbance waking up at 5 in the morning cant get back to sleep etc. Last night I took the patch off at 7pm and i slept really well although I had to have gum at about 10pm as I had a horrible craving. Am testing my remove the patch a bit earlier theory tonight in case I only slept really well last night as I was soo tired.
I am using the 24hr patches & find I get site itching for about an hr after the patch is applied but the worse problem is the 'vivid' dreams - I now take the patch off as I go to bed -get some 'dreaming' as I fall asleep but no worse than if I'm over tired- it seems to have stopped the bad/strange dreams completley & is also what the maunfacturers advise on thier website (I found out a week later lol)
I THINK is a whole sentence, not a replacement for I Know
I have managed to dramatically cut down to just 4 cigarettes a day and hope to stop totally very soon. I am using a hand gel from www.nicogeluk.com . I had previously found it impossible to stop, and I was dreading 8 hours at work without a ciggy when the ban came in! Now I am coping easily and although it is a prop for me at present, I could not have got this far without that prop. I NEED TO WORK. No I am not hooked on the hand gel either. It may or may not work for you, but it works for me. I think it depends, as it always does, on your frame of mind, and your willingness to go through with finally stopping. Anything is worth a try, and it is surely better than filling your lungs with smoke and nasty things, and no I don't have an interest in the stuff only that it works for me.
If any ex-smokers among you like the taste of Nicotinell gum,
you can save a few quid by buying Tesco's NIC-AID 'own brand'.
It is EXACTLY the same - same taste and texture and inner packaging, and is made by the same company, NOVARTIS.
As far as I know though, it's only available in MINT variety (I haven't seen any of the more exotic flavours like Liquorice available!)
It's around £9.50 for a giant pack (where the branded counterpart is usually around £12-£13)
Also if you like NICORETTE fruit flavour nicotine gum, you can get a £2.00 off coupon from their website, though you need to register your email with them.
Finally, HOME BARGAINS often have 12 packs of NiQuitin CQ cheaply available, though the price often varies between 99p and £1.50 - but it's still cheaper than usual.
Do you know anywhere that can beat the prices for the patches on www.Mad2Smoke.com? Seriously, they include free UK delivery too. The triple packs are astounding value. They also sell lozenges and gum.
I quit for two years after reading Allen Carr's Easyway. It really did change the way I felt about cigarettes...can't explain it, but you do get a sort of 'eureka' moment while reading the book. Sort of counter brainwashing that stopping is hard. (I can understand this as addiction probably is all in the mind. ) I read the book in two hours and stopped immediately with no cravings or patches. Cheap too, as it only cost the price of the book. However, (big however I caved a while ago and had a cig while on holiday. Now back to about ten a day.
Looked out the book again...but apparently, it doesn't work so well the second time!
Has anyone tried the Electronic Cigarette. I have found a site on the web (www.theelectroniccigarette.co.uk) and it seems too good to be true. My friend has tried one and said it was like smoking a cigarette.
They don't seem to be advertising it as an aid to quit just as a 'get around' to the smoking ban. I was wondering if anyone had tried and successfully given up using this.
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I caved a while ago and had a cig while on holiday. Now back to about ten a day. 
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