Atheists & Agnostics

Curmudgeoness

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13. It sounds like a good way to do it by going slow.

Mon Jun 29, 2015, 05:53 PM

Jun 2015

I thought that you were not allowed to smoke while wearing the patch. At least, that is what the package says. I tried the patch and got terrible insomnia. As one who has never had a problem with sleeping, that was just not something that I could tolerate.

The oddest thing to me is that I got an electronic cigarette, hoping that it would help wean me off, but apparently, there is something more than the nicotine that I get out of smoking a cigarette. It is not terrible, and I find that I don't need as much of the hits off of the e-cig as I get from cigarettes. Once you light up a cigarette, you finish it, even if you only needed a couple of puffs---because it is there. For some reason, I still crave cigarettes with the e-cig.

I will keep trying. And failing. And trying again until it works.

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On being offended [View all] deucemagnet Jun 2015 OP

That's about the gist of it. Curmudgeoness Jun 2015 #1

chemicals AlbertCat Jun 2015 #2

A fifty year habit is hard to break. Curmudgeoness Jun 2015 #6

50 years is rough OriginalGeek Jun 2015 #12

It sounds like a good way to do it by going slow. Curmudgeoness Jun 2015 #13

Yeah everyone told me not to smoke while on the patch OriginalGeek Jun 2015 #14

Good luck with that. onager Jun 2015 #3

Real life! God, I hate when it gets in the way Curmudgeoness Jun 2015 #5

Thanks! I plan to try that. onager Jun 2015 #10

I stopped watching at the smoking part. deucemagnet Jun 2015 #4

Thanks. Curmudgeoness Jun 2015 #7

We quit smoking in 2000. RussBLib Jun 2015 #11

Try typing it like this: LostOne4Ever Jun 2015 #8

Thanks. deucemagnet Jun 2015 #9

My favorite response to those who are "offended"... NeoGreen Jun 2015 #15