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What is the point of nicotine patches? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I don't get it. It's kinda like you got to want to quit but at the same time yeah quitting is already hard for me. But I'm supposed to put it on me and somehow I get a form of nicotine without smoking. It's like how am I supposed to get used to it. I will even take the patch off try to save it for later just so I can have a cigarette. But yeah I think taking it off might actually ruin it. I read the instructions a little bit but yeah the whole nicotine patches last 24 hours and you shouldn't put it on more than 24 hours. So I really don't know if nicotine patches do anything especially since I enjoy smoking.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Nicotine patch is meant for help you quit smoking altogether, and not an alternative to smoking cigarettes. You need to decide to quit and take those patches, it help you slowly decrease the dose to not give you the intense withdrawal.

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