Well i have to be sensible, i value my job and I need my job.. pure and simple 
For the time being at least i've stopped cold turkey in favour of keeping friends at work. I went 2 days and 20 hours. When my fiancé got home she could see i was in a bit of a state, and we agreed for now at least i would return to the patches. 3 weeks isn't long enough for me before i try ct i guess.
hats off to anyone doing CT from the outset. /respect to you.
Please don't hate me for going back on my patches
You gave it a shot and knew your limits. Its great that you can do that. 2 Days 20 hours. 
I admire anyone who tries CT, I know for certain I couldn't do it. Hope your day got better?
Hi Jase
Well done going almost 3 days CT after just 3 weeks that's great
You were right not to push it to far and risk your quit altogether
Of course I don't hate you I admire you for giving it a go so early
Love
Marg xxxxxxxxxxxx
Dont hate you and more importantly u shouldn't hate yourself, we all take different routes, what is important or even vital is finding the right route for you.
CT is the only way i have ever done it so i don't know any different, however who knows what option i would choose if i had to again (not that i am planning to)
The main thing here is that u have not had a fag, one day at a time we will beat this.
Hey Jase .......you did the RIGHT thing. I used the patches for 92 days before I went cold turkey just 4 days ago. My first day of C.T was interesting as I felt a little bit out of my comfort zone but as the day progressed I knew that I had got well over the worst thanx to the patches and nothing was going to make me cave in.
My advise to you would be to keep using the lowest strength patches until you feel ready for another crack at C.T .....and at the end of the day its all about staying away from the "fags".........keep your chin up , you are doing well.
Trev
92 days patches , 4 days C.T
I cut a 21mg patch in half and am only wearing half a one, what i think mattered to me was that i was so headstrong and stubborn about trying CT, but today was a particularly awful day at work in that i had to fix a laptop which involved stripping it down completely, so that every single screw/part was removed, and then i had to put it all back together again but replacing the main circuit board inside that the computer processor sits on.. all went ok, it went back together and no screws were left over.. but!..... found that the part i replaced turned out to be a D.O.A. part (dead on arrival), which happens sometimes, and after 3 hours of careful work (i'm not the quickest engineer, but i am the most methodical), i then find i have do the whole lot again another day when a working part arrives.
i was gutted, you can imagine what my normal response would have been and i was just sat in the middle of it stewing over a job that just went wrong due to something outside of my control.
The joys of being a computer engineer
but no, no smoke.. i've made a promise to myself i'd see this through, and thats what i'll do. Just wish today had been a bit kinder
Jase, I came off the inhalator at around 6-8 weeks (I cant remember now, thats how important it isnt 
) Went away for the weekend, found myself panicking and wanting a smoke so just went and bought another inhalator and puffed away on that for the next week. Gave it up again a week later, I dont think I even mentioned it here.
The important thing is you didnt smoke and thats all that matters.
Keep up the good work
Nog
xxx
hey jase,
i also tried ct 2nd quit attempt lasted 2 days i was like a zombie it wasnt nice, no one hates you for putting patch back on flippin eck jase youve not smoked just stuck half a patch back on so wot!!! you should be proud mate that youre continuing quit, for me im on patches & im not in a rush to go ct, i do know exactly where youre coming from though kind of think youre just delaying the quit...well i disagree a tad on that one coz in some way yeah still got nicotine in youre body so in effect still a drug addict BUT youre breaking the habit why you on patch & ive said this before psycologists? say it takes 3 months(12 weeks to break a habit) so why youre sorting youre head out you are being weaned off nicotine... little steps jase you doing well:):):)
Well i have to be sensible, i value my job and I need my job.. pure and simple
For the time being at least i've stopped cold turkey in favour of keeping friends at work. I went 2 days and 20 hours. When my fiancé got home she could see i was in a bit of a state, and we agreed for now at least i would return to the patches. 3 weeks isn't long enough for me before i try ct i guess.
hats off to anyone doing CT from the outset. /respect to you.
Please don't hate me for going back on my patches
Jase,
Don't be daft, are you smoking cigarettes? No. However you get there, you need to get there, let's face I've tried practically everything, for me cold turkey was the thing, but more than that this quit for me has been about willpower, in all honesty have I really wanted to quit before or have I just thought I ought too - big difference. You're determined anyway, look how far you've come, I've never made it as far as you have until this quit.
Someone said something to me that I need to remember and I think we all do. If we achieve nothing else this year at least we've quit smoking.
with a bit of luck tomorrow will be easier and i'll be using patches tomorrow too. I have accepted now that perhaps the CT was a little early for me and it was an endurance 'test' , i guess i kicked myself a little too harshly for not getting to the full 3 days, but my fiancé was right, i'd proved enough already by quitting and its better to stay quit than to take a silly risk right now for the sake of proving i could go to the extreme.
On a lighter note, i watched some 'house' which i recorded on sky+, daaaamn that hugh laurie can do a good american accent now
found that the part i replaced turned out to be a D.O.A. part (dead on arrival), which happens sometimes, and after 3 hours of careful work
man - im feeling your pain. i used to do the same job. the only thing worse is when you have travelled to a customer site to do it. then you really hate the world!
a new part arrived to allow me to fix this one today, hopefully this one will work. Screwdriver in hand, i'm about to venture deep into the inner workings of this laptop once more .. it will be cured
Yes!!!!!
WHOOHOO!!!!!!!!! the part they sent today i've now totally fitted and tested the laptop fully working for the nice person who i've now nicknamed 'patience'
There is a god, and he must have decided to give me a break today
Happy chappy again
Hey Jase - have you tried cutting your patches out gradually mate? I've been halving mine for the past two weeks and it's really working well. I'm now on 14s cut into quarters... so about 3.5 mg (hardly seems worth it!!).
It means you do get a little withdrawal kick every week but it's smaller and pretty manageable.
Well done on not caving in too, do whatever works for you!!
Yeah, but i think i'll go for the rest of the next 2 weeks on the full ones, then start on the next size down, as work is really stressy atm, i will cope so much better without something else getting on my mind.
This time last year I was using NRT lozenges, I chose to go 10 weeks on them. I wasn't prepared to go CT when I started, however after I read and sorted out the way I thought about smoking I was ready to go it alone.
What does a few extra weeks of nicotine usage matter in the grand scheme of things? The most important thing is you have stopped taking in smoke and all the crap it contains. The nicotine is not that most harmful part, its just the bit which hooks you and keeps you smoking. One of the major reasons to break the dependency on nicotine is that if you don't eventually you'll need a nicotine fix and the only available nicotine is in the form of a cigarette.
The reason people smoke cigs is that they are the most effective nicotine delivery device and for an addict the fastest input is the preferred one.
Cut out the patches when you are more used to being a non smoker.
All the best
Nic
Hi Jase
Well done the main thing is not smoking. I am on the patches as well and not shure about comming off them. To day is 29 for me and I still have 3 14mg patches (got 28 days out of 25 patches:confused:). But going to drop to the 7mg at the weekend and try them 1 week then ct if I think I am able. Think the patches are the cause of the hot flushes I get but I can live with that for a few weeks if I stop smoking
I'm quite happy to run with the patches for now, but at the back of my mind constantly is the thought that although i'm very happy that the patches are relieving many of the cravings i was getting and indeed causing me to get unreasonably moody (especially when its stressy in work), they still are delivering nicotine into my bloodstream and that was my main push for trying an endurance test of CT without them.
I'm going to use these step 1 patches for the next 2 weeks at least i think now, then i'm going to start the next ones down without a doubt as i feel that if i went 3 days with no patch on near enough, then a lower mg patch wouldn't be unreasonable to use for me.
Its different for everybody, some folk would have to stay on step 1 for the full duration they suggest i suppose, but i needed to see how i responded to no nicotine at all before i decided what my next course of action should be dosage wise.
I am highly focused on my quit this time around, even my fiancé has commented that i seem to be so much more determined this time around than i even was last time i was successful for a number of months .. 8 months i'd quit for that time and although i tried to quit again soon after, the re-attempt only lasted 4 days. This time though, i'm here on day 25, i've made a list of all the reasons why i personally liked to smoke, and i've written a list under each reason now why those excuses (which i now like to call them) are false. So now my reasons for smoking have re-inforced my reasons for quitting and thats really helped tons.
All I know now is that i will not and never will accept a single cigarette/cigar into my life as I know that it will never stop at one.. it would be like giving a single glass of whiskey to an alcholic and i've accepted that smoking when you boil it down to basics is an addiction.. yet if i stick at it, is likely to be actually easy to give up, so long as i meet the challenges as they occur and rationalise them to make them less of an issue for me.
These forums have been a great help so far, as has talking to a guy here at work who quit smoking in may and i can see just how not smoking is helping him, and i want that for me too now.
I know some folk on these forums are struggling too, and if I can help any of them with just a few words of my own personal experience, then i'll be happy indeed. I just wish I could send extra confidence and willpower to folk when i know they are going through a mare of a day.
So anyway.. DAY 25.. I am staring this addiction in the face again, and telling it sternly.. NO. I will not let it control my life or who i am, or how i make my decisions.
/peace all
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