OK, here's how ya do it. Buy the brand name patches/gum, not the generic crap. Buy a two week supply of the patch, and a one week supply of the gum. Get the 21mg patches, and the 4mg gum.
It won't be cheap.
Make your quit date on a monday morning. The sunday night before, grab yur beard trimmer and knock the hair off your left and right side of your chest. Upon retiring for the evening, smoke your last cig as you normally would. Heck, smoke two in a row. Enjoy it. Then, physically destroy any remaining cigs, and trash em. Go to bed.
DO NOT PUT THE PATCH ON AT THIS POINT.
As soon as you get up, slap the patch on yur smooth pec. Then, especially if your gonna be working, back it up with duct tape. You don't need much, just something to help out the patch-stickyness. The next morning, slap it on the other pec, and likewise thereafter.
Welcome to the non-smoking you!
Now, for the gum. It is nothing but a back-up for the patch. When you read the instructions, it will say not to use them both at once.
I use them both at once. When and if that urge to smoke becomes overpowering, throw a piece of gum in your mouth. Do not chew it more than a few times. Park it in a corner of yur jaw, and ignore it.
Soon, you will be overdosing on nicotine, and that's when you spit the gum out. Trust me, a cigarette will be the
last thing on your mind at that point.
Resign yourself to the fact that even if you have to use that patch/gum for the rest of your life, that's STILL better than smoking, and it costs about the same. But don't worry. You will soon learn how to wean yourself off the patches/gum.
I will post that in a later installment for anyone who gets to that stage.
The first stage is doing everything I just said.
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