Kicking The Habit - Part 6

It's been awhile since my last post...no I didn't fall off the face of the earth or start smoking again.

I've been on the 14mg patch for over a week now and am gearing up to "step down" to the 7mg patch this Friday. I will say that the adjustment from the 21mg patch to the 14mg patch did cause a day or two of irritability...but not too bad.

So there's the update on that....got some other things to share but no time to post right now.

Stay Sweet, TTFN, FF, and all that!

Kicking The Habit - Part 5

So it's now been four weeks...yeah that's right FOUR WEEKS since my last cigarette!

I wish I could say we were 1/2 way through the weaning period...but no! Although we are almost done with Step 1. This step is six weeks on a 21mg patch. At the end of six weeks you "step" down to 14mg for two weeks and then another "step" down to a 7mg patch for another two weeks and that's it.

I'll post again when I start Step 2. In my opinion this will be another hard step. The first being stopping the act of lighting a cigarette and inhaling it. As you may remember from previous posts that this had a few ups and downs. However, even though no smoking is involved there has been no reduction in nicotine. Step 2 will be the first decrease in nicotene, so I'm sure there will be issues.