kicking the habit? takes more than a patch

Advantages: hopefully the ability to kick the habit
Disadvantages: too many to mention

..., more need to. I don't find the patches, alone, are enough, and my willpower starts each day with 3 screaming kids demanding various parts of me. If you do feel ready to quit (and we all do at various stages) go and see your GP, patches etc are available on prescription which might save you a fortune, as well as your lungs. All I can say is, they aren't for everyone, but well worth a try. If I don't succeed in smoking less than 5 tomorrow and decreasing by one per day until I reach 0 cigs I quit quitting................. until next time! Wish me luck? Additional comment 17.02.05 I've been sat here thinking I ought to add to this for some time. By watching various programmes (CSI inc) I know you should never smoke whilst using patches. I knew this before, but didn't realise how quck nicotine poisoning kills. Reardless of this I...

mizz_behaves 15.12.2004 (17.02.2005) · Read review
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Review of NiQuitin CQ CQ Step 1 Patches

Get the power of the patch

Advantages: They really do help deal with the craving
Disadvantages: The cost, although you can now get them on the NHS

...After smoking 20 a day for over 10 years I decided the time had come to quit although after trying and failing on several occasions using willpower alone I opted for Nicotine replacement therapy in the form of the NiQuitin CQ patches. Nicotine replacement therapy is proven to assist quitting and typically doubles the number of people who quit compared with willpower alone. The patch is designed to be worn 24 hours a day allowing nicotine to be steadily absorbed through the skin, unlike gum, lozenges, and inhalators which need to be used regularly throughout the day and also provide a nicotine 'hit' similar to that of smoking, this means that while using the patch it is the habit you are kicking without having to deal with nicotine withdrawal. The patches have been designed to be used as a 10 week course and come...

Jess99 11.04.2001 · Read review
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Review of NiQuitin CQ CQ Step 1 Patches

NIQUITIN CQ CLEAR PATCHES

Advantages: help you to quit
Disadvantages: are costly

...done. Hearing his story I sat down and had a long think about it. I had to quit for me and for my children. If I died from cancer at an early age due to my smoking were would they be. So I decided I have to give it another go. This time I went to my G.P. for advice and spoke to the local chemist. I decided to try the NiQuitin CQ clear 21mg patches. You put them on and leave them for 24 hours then change it. Because I had to smoke with in half an hour of waking up the step 1 patches were recommended for me. So I went home and when I woke in the morning instead of a cigarette I put on a patch. You apply the patch to your skin. One patch contains 114mg of nicotine and delivers 21mg of nicotine to your body in 24 hours. The patch is 22cm2 in size and also contains ethylene/vinyl acetate copolymer, polyethylene terephthalate...

shugardream 20.10.2002 · Read review
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Review of NiQuitin CQ CQ Step 1 Patches

Patches rather than stinky fags.

Advantages: No more stinky fags
Disadvantages: Makes my skin itch

...contain 5mg of nicotine. I can't say that I don't still get cravings because I do, but they only last a few seconds now. Packaging The nicorette 5mg patch comes in a white box with red circles in the left hand corner. It has nicorette written in big green writing across the top, 5mg patch and nicotine under that, under this is a red line going to a small patch with the bottom left hand corner curled up. Step 3 is written under the line. I can also see under the chemist sticker written in small green written, Helps overcome your urge to smoke. The box tells you that there are seven patches in their. The little patches come in their own individual sealed packet with all the same information as on the front of the actual box. The back states that there is 8.3mg releasing 5mg of nicotine over a 16 hour period. The patch is the original...

Crazykurst 15.05.2006 · Read review
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Review of Nicorette Nicotine Patches Low Strength

**A Patch a Day keeps the Cancer away!?!**

Advantages: everything
Disadvantages: nothing

...Fed up of stinking, Fed up of the expense and fed of being branded a smoker I decided to give it a go.. Saying I was quitting was a lot easier than actually taking the big step and not lighting up every morning, noon and night but here I am half way through week two and I really don't have much of a craving and I think this is down to the little itchy patch I have on my shoulder. When I saw the stop smoking nurse and my surgery (also my work) I estimated I smoked less than 10 a day (thinking about it now it was rarely under 10 and more like 20) but anyway, she started me off on the "step 2" which is the 14mg patches which are to be worn for 24 hours a day. I got them on prescription and had 3 months supply for only £6.50 (just over the price of a packet of 20 fags) so really it is very cheap. I did also get...

elephants69food_0 02.11.2005 · Read review
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Review of Nicorette Nicotine Patches Medium Strength

Smoking Doesn't have a PATCH on These

Advantages: Help to manage nicotine withdrawal; they're nearly invisible
Disadvantages: Itch, dreams, cost, marks on skin. Not a cure-all

...waking. If you generally can wait more than half an hour before lighting up, you may find a 16 hour patch more suitable. The product comes in three strengths - Stage 1 - 21mg, which contains 114mg of nicotine and delivers 21mg over 24 hours (all this information comes from the leaflet contained inside the box); Stage 2 - 14mg - containing 78mg of nicotine delivering 14mg of nicotine over 24 hours, and Stage 3 - 7mg, containing 36mg of nicotine delivering 7mg over 24 hours. If you smoke more than 20 cigarettes a day, you start with stage 1 for six weeks, then step down to stage 2 for two weeks and finally to stage three for two weeks. After going through all that for 10 weeks, you then no longer put nicotine in your body, and, in theory, you've cracked the addiction. If you smoke fewer than 20 a day, you start with Stage 2 for six...

mattygroves 19.03.2004 (29.11.2005) · Read review
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Review of NiQuitin CQ CQ Step 2 Patches

Do You Want To Quit?

Advantages: -
Disadvantages: -

...I have been smoking for over half of my life. I was influenced by peers at school, started to smoke with my friends at lunch time and before I knew it I was buying them myself, addicted to nicotine, and spending more money that what I wanted to. It all starts that way, when you are young and smoking is something that you will always crave for at some point even if you have managed to give up. Over the years, many people have kept saying to me that I should give up smoking and I have tried many methods including cold turkey, nicotine chewing gum, nicotine patches, all of which do help to a certain extent, however its the willpower and the want to quit that has to be as powerful as the actual products themselves. When the smoking ban came into effect thats when I decided it was time for me to do something about it and if you go to...

blondgem 25.06.2008 · Read review
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Review of NiQuitin CQ CQ Step 1 Patches

  Willpower Required!

Advantages: You give up smoking, save loads of money!
Disadvantages: They fall off in the bath!

...bed with caffeine and the Sunday papers. NiQuitin CQ will not give you a quick fix to ditching nicotine addiction, it?s not a question of slapping on a patch every day for a week and that?s it you are no longer an addict. It takes will power and a sense of belief in yourself to finally ditch nicotine. But what the patch?s will do is help in a small way is ease the craving. By you altering your habits - I always rolled out of bed, put the kettle on and feed the cats and lit up on the back door step whilst the kettle boiled, I make my sandwiches for work now. Yes I?ve been out and sat in a pub the first time I wanted to scream at every smoker in the place to blinking well stop it now! But I got throw the night and other nights. I even realised that when things are slow at work I don?t need to sneak off for a smoke I can do other things...

The_Nursey 26.03.2005 · Read review
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Review of NiQuitin CQ CQ Step 1 Patches

Hopefully something else will work.....

Advantages: Can help you stop smoking....
Disadvantages: Side effects, didn't work for me.

...the damage I'm doing to my body, not to mention the cost of the damn things these days! Basically I've had a couple of trips to the doctors in the last year with respiratory illnesses and she says they're strongly linked to my smoking and that I should quit. Well, lets be honest, she would say that and I'm not one for being told what to do, however, I also don't enjoy being ill so this is where this review comes in I suppose........... The product I have chosen to review is the Niquitin Clear patch - Step 1. It is a 24 hour patch and it works by delivering nicotine through the skin throughout the day to replace the nicotine you used to get from cigarettes in order to reduce your cravings and unpleasant symptoms of nicotine withdrawal. First off then the appearance of the patch....... Well, it's about 2" by 2" give or take and is see...

fabgirly 22.09.2007 · Read review
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Review of NiQuitin CQ CQ Step 1 Patches

Today I'm going to quit, to patch or not.

Advantages: 100
Disadvantages: 200

...Five years ago, I decided I was going to quit smoking. No more would I abuse my body in such a way, killing myself slowly. I proudly walked into my local chemist and asked for a packed of Nicotinell Patches. I'm sure they have changed considerable since then, but this type was a months supply, in three grades. The first was full strength, a total of 14 and lasting for two weeks. The second set, the nicotine was reduce by a third, and lasting for seven days. The third and final set of patches for the remaining week, the nicotine was again reduced by a third. And by then in theory, it should have been home free. That evening I had a warm bath and placed my first patch onto my arm, and off I went to bed. By 4am I was still awake, for some reason they were having a diverse affect on me getting to sleep. The next night was...

hiflyer 05.06.2001 (08.06.2001) · Read review
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