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I don't know whether becoming addicted to the lozenges is actually serving me well. The fact I have turned back to lozenges rather than succumbing to ciggies is reinforcing to me that the addiction is most definitely nicotine and not the physical act of smoking. Smoking is what left me feeling like crap more than lozenges. Smoking is the act with the most downsides. It's why I didn't want to dally with vapes, it's too akin to smoking with the physical long term effects on the body still unknown. I don't want to be stuck on lozenges for the rest of my life. I just need to find an alternative to the lozenges now. As I say I'm a very active person, always on the go so I am feeling the positives of not smoking on my body and that's with still eating the lozenges. I just need to be free of the drug that is nicotine. I think I will do as you say my friend and find myself the alternative to these Nicorettes and set a pack in date for these. Anyone got any alternatives to Nicotette fruit lozenges? Same taste and same size minus the nicotine?

Your thinking is right on in many aspects that you have found/find yourself in. I also went through the "phone calls" where one of them was definitely reading from a written script to me in a dull bored voice (yawning included). One even told me if I get cravings while reading posts on-line in their dedicated community that I shouldn't go on-line then. Those experiences served me well later when I became a certified volunteer to teach an 8 week smoking cessation course to individuals. Personal experience and giving a sh!t does make a difference for successful outcomes. Until you are nicotine free your body will continue to crave even more of what you are feeding it that's why it's so addictive. You might try alternating the lozenges with some other substitute (ie cinnamon hard candy) to gradually taper off the lozenges. Otherwise "just" choose an end date for the lozenges and end the active addiction using the other tools you chose to use when you quit smoking from your "Quit Kit" (distractions, activities, self-talk, substitutions, etc.). Once nicotine free, your body and mind will eventually find its new normal. Time and patience heals & recovers you. Smoking thoughts/cravings will lessen but may/will still pop up from time to time (fewer and further & further apart). The difference is we made our choice and once the physical addiction is dormant it becomes easy to acknowledge the thoughts/triggers (even laugh them off) and just move on from them. You're doing great! Keep it up!

Just popping in to update. The phonecalls with the prescriptions have finished. I missed a call and that was the end of that. As I said at the very start they're not bothered about you as a person or how you're doing. It was all just lip service to give you the prescriptions. I think there was probably some sort of local funding from government and they just have to keep throwing prescriptions around to keep receiving the government money so they're not really bothered about the individual. Anyway, onto this week. I don't know why but there were temptations this week. Id been finished with the lozenges for a week or two and midweek this week, Wednesday to be precise, had me thinking the unthinkable. I never succumbed to the pressure. I thought how horrible it would be in the end. The feelings of anxiety I used to get off smoking are still in my mind. I know how smoking used to make me feel and it was not good. All them feelings have gone this last 3 months odd, and that is because I have packed in. I was around at my lads mum's on the Wednesday in question, I had to go in the kitchen to get a plastic bag to take some stuff she passed me, her ciggies were on the side, open with a good few ciggies gone so she wouldn't notice if I took one. It was a quick temptation, the thought was gone as fast as it came but the temptation was there. Can't work out whether I've actually won with that battle by not taking one. The temptation being there probably means the opposite but the knocking back of the temptation must cancel that out. Needless to say last night I went to boots and got myself a weeks worth of lozenges. I need to kick this nicotine habit. I know I don't want to smoke, Ive knocked that temptation back. Just got to kick the lozenges now. It's like nicotine in a different form is taking a hold now.

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Congrats Jane on quitting, your life has changed for the better. You will have many positives changes now that will continue to enhance your life. You will now have new first changes going on all which are positive. I used Tic Tacks to edge off the cravings and they did great. Keep in mind that each day you don’t smoke is your victory against the addiction you have given up. Keep the days going into weeks, months, and in to your longer life you have given yourself. Bassman

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