Help.10 Weeks Nearly Done.

[nsd_user663_1931]

Hi Everyone

I`ve nearly done 10 weeks and went down to 7 mg patch last wednesday. On advice from smoking nurse ( suggest leaving patch on for days ) i put patch on wednesday. New patch thursday until saturday ,then patch saturday to tuesday.I haven`t had a patch on since tuesday but feel like having a fag.

As the patch only lasts 24 hrs , saturdays patch would have run out sunday. Does this mean i`m now nicotene free.Dont know if to put patch on or struggle on with no patch.

Also been feeling dizzy and heart races sometimes.Blood pressure is ok.

Any advice please

Barb x

[nsd_user663_1704]

That is the madest thing i have ever heard!!! leave patch on for days :confused:

Sorry i am no expert, 1 patch for 3 days = nrt day 1 and sticky plaster crap of nowt for 2?!

I would go a patch a day personaly! but the heart n dizzyness?

you have gone this far?! the patch isnt affecting you! the heart thing i can compare to my anxiety and dizzyness but i am no expert. tiredness tooo! new baby and all? hmm?

Second opinion in my eyes, 1 patch for days that sounds like utter 'bow larks' to me!!!

[nsd_user663_1931]

Buffy I will put patch on 2morrow. Could really have a fag now.

Have just put pic on of me and daughter.

Barb x

[nsd_user663_1704]

yay see the pic, Nice to meet you barb

again it is so nice to put the faces to names !!

Just don't worry too much, take on everything if need be!! just dont smoke!!

~Buffy x x

[nsd_user663_1966]

Hi Barb,

Surely there must have been some sort of mis-understanding?

Apart from the fact it must surely say somewhere in the instructions that come with the patches not to use them for longer a day, in most cases they'd fall off before then anyway.

Do you think maybe she was suggesting that you use one patch for a day - say on Saturday - then don't use another until Tuesday. That way you'd be using 1 patch every third day with two days nic free. Even then would still seem like odd advice.

Well done on the ten weeks anyhow. I'm in week 9 now and I so hope week ten is better cos I really have had a tough time this week - not with craving but with feeling very tense and angsty all the time, which is a horrible feeling. Can't wait to reach that calm still water beyond the storm.

Dicky

[nsd_user663_1858]

well done barb

you could try what i did try using a patch every other day, i think it gives your body more time to adjust.

1 patch only 24 hours. !!!!

when you are free of the patches you will still feel like having a fag this is normal as you are still taking nicotine using patches.

3-6 months with no patches you will feel great.

all the best

take care

Andy

quit 8 march

[nsd_user663_1931]

Hi Dicky , Boudee and Andy

What the smoking cessation woman said was that its all in the mind and i dont need the patch.

She suggested keeping patch on for 2 days , then 3 days and so on to prove i didnt need them.

I tried and was doing good but by yesterday i needed a patch.

So i am now back on a patch a day 7mg and no craves.

Thanks for everyones replys.

Barb x

[nsd_user663_1931]

Ps

By the way Andy do they still have party in the park at Swindon?.

Haven`t been for a few years now.Used to stay in a b and b just around the corner from park.

[nsd_user663_1858]

I dont think they had one last year i beleive they have it in oxford now.