:(Into week three tomorrow and feeling really nauseous tonight. What's the crack there? I havnt overeaten, actually been eating really healthily but I just feel really sick 
been fine all day til now.
Anyway, smoking nurse tomorrow. Will ask her to drop me down to step two patches
Sorry to hear that. The patches made me feel like that too.
This is the first time I've had it since stopping. I'm ok now, I think it might just have been cos I had quite a heavy dinner, which I havnt had anything heavy and stodgy all week so that was probably it. 
So I've had my appointment with the nurse, she doesn't wanna lower my patch to step 2 yet til after I've done 6 weeks why when I feel ready to drop down? Hmmmm
Do you have to go to a nurse to get the patches?
I've heard a lot about smoking clinics in the UK. Can you not buy NRT at the Pharmacy with out a prescription?
Do you have to go to a nurse to get the patches?
I've heard a lot about smoking clinics in the UK. Can you not buy NRT at the Pharmacy with out a prescription?
Yeah I can buy patches from the supermarket or our equivalent of drug stores, but they're much more expensive. From prescription I get it for £7.20 but from a shop it would be I think £17 or something. So I went to the nurse. I don't think they understand what I understand though, like the science of nrt. The nrt products only help with the withdrawals!! Not the cravings, and the cravings are gone, so why won't she drop me down? Never mind. I don't want to stop going cos she's doing other stuff like my blood pressure, weight and stuff so keeping an eye on all of that.
hi rochelle
just to pick up on your smoking nurse telling you that you cant drop down to 14mg patches just yet .
you have to bear in mind that everyone is different and will stop smokng differently. i used 14mg patches for about 3 weeks then didnt bother. i felt fine but ready to do that as i didnt want to drag out ( excuse the pun ) the reliance on nicotine. i have smoked 15 a day for 30 years, a pretty good career . unless your a 20 plus a day smoker 14mg shoul dbe ok ..
if you feel you want to step down to lower patches, then try it , there on offer at asda for £6 , if it doesent suit you go up again .
As much as the nhs quit service is a great service and no doubt helps a lot of people. i do believe if you have never smoked then you can never understand the stopping smoking process fully and arent really best placed to give advice on how to do so
ill get off my soap box now,, but its up to you , do it to suit yourself ,it doesent have to be really hard work
kmh
hi rochelle
just to pick up on your smoking nurse telling you that you cant drop down to 14mg patches just yet .
you have to bear in mind that everyone is different and will stop smokng differently. i used 14mg patches for about 3 weeks then didnt bother. i felt fine but ready to do that as i didnt want to drag out ( excuse the pun ) the reliance on nicotine. i have smoked 15 a day for 30 years, a pretty good career . unless your a 20 plus a day smoker 14mg shoul dbe ok ..
if you feel you want to step down to lower patches, then try it , there on offer at asda for £6 , if it doesent suit you go up again .
As much as the nhs quit service is a great service and no doubt helps a lot of people. i do believe if you have never smoked then you can never understand the stopping smoking process fully and arent really best placed to give advice on how to do so
ill get off my soap box now,, but its up to you , do it to suit yourself ,it doesent have to be really hard work
kmh
I agree with everything you've said. I also have said somewhere on here that I don't think smoking nurses are best placed as they've probably never been a smoker. That's why I take everything she says with a pinch of salt lol I will have a go with the 14mg patches. I think she should have respected my choice and dropped me down actually. 25mg is way more than I was smoking and that's exactly what I told her.
She said she wants to give me another 2 weeks on them!! At first she said be on the step one for 8 weeks I felt like saying why the f**ck!!
