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Patches. Each one lasted a week.

Horrible. I didn't sleep properly - I had incredibly lucid dreams the whole time - and my sense of smell came back with a bang. My sense of taste changed dramatically (I still can't eat as hot chillies as I enjoyed when I smoked). I hung onto the final patch for four weeks, like a comfort blanket, even though it had run out of nicotine ages ago. Not an experience I would want to go through again. I think what kept me going was that I was not enjoying smoking any more: I smoked because I had to. International flights were a living hell! Motivation is important IMHO: if you don't actually want to give up, you won't. If you "think you should" it's probably a lot, lot harder than if you "want to stop". I also didn't destroy my tobacco on Day One, because I didn't want to not smoke because I didn't have any - I wanted to not smoke because I didn't want a cigarette (if that makes any sense). When I took off the final patch, I chucked the tobacco because I didn't need it any more.

One of the motivators was to put the price of the cigarettes I would have smoked in a jar every day. At the end of the first month, take it all, and go spend it on a present for yourself, then again after six months - it's surprising how much free cash you get!

But completely worth it. I breathe better, I don't get the colds and such I used to, I don't stink all the time, I don't have burns in my shirts, I don't have yellow fingers, I'm much better off financially looking at the price of a pack now, I don't wake up and have to search for the cigarette I dreamt I was smoking... Laugh | :laugh:
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