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Originally Posted by Deviaant
Still going strong, I'm no longer using the patch or gum. I do carry some nicotine gum around with me just in case, I really feel I need a smoke. I also have a full pack of smokes sitting in my freezer. To me the thought of I could have a smoke if I really wanted to to be calming, I'd be all panicky and think about it all the time if they were not around. So when I feel a good amount of time has passed I'll throw my freezer pack out but till then they are there if I want them. Honestly I'd forgotten about my freezer smokes till now.
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I quit almost three years ago now, totally cold turkey without cutting down and I didn't use any kind of nicotine product. By day three I should have been at the hospital, because I was puking like Ray Charles on the rehab center floor. I couldn't even keep water down. Once I wasn't bedridden (jazz cabbage and frozen fruit are a miracle) a friend gave me a pack of smokes that I did not open/unseal. I carried around for three weeks in my pocket until I gave it away to someone asking to bum a smoke.
I found it comforting to know that if I was going to cave, I was going to be all-in. No sneaking drags or bumming random smokes or anything. I wanted to know that caving is caving and to not pussyfoot around this. I think the reason so many people can't quite ever quit is because, well, they don't ever get the nicotine out of their system completely and let the brain rewire. I wanted the nicotine out of my system as fast as possible. Although given the aforementioned puking and being bedridden for a couple days might not be for everyone.
I have not had any nicotine since, yet even at almost three years watching Mad Men makes me jones, lol.