Comments on: NRT vs Cold Turkey http://www.willwilliams.co.uk Hypnosis, Hypnotherapy, Subconscious Psychology. Come and explore your mind! Leave comments and learn with others. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 08:07:50 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: KidJhb http://www.willwilliams.co.uk/common-issues/smoking/nrt-vs-cold-turkey/comment-page-1/#comment-7614 KidJhb Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:03:17 +0000 http://www.willwilliams.co.uk/?page_id=156#comment-7614 I have quit smoking with and without NRT. 4 years ago with NRT and more recently, cold turkey. In my experience, cold turkey is by far the easier route. You give up nicotine once. Lots of fluids, sleep, a headache tablet or two and 72 hours later, you're through. Whether you are on NRT or not, you will still have cravings. Rather deal with these cravings without nicotine in your system because sooner or later you will have to give up the NRT and that is where a lot of people falter and go back to smoking. I have quit smoking with and without NRT. 4 years ago with NRT and more recently, cold turkey. In my experience, cold turkey is by far the easier route. You give up nicotine once. Lots of fluids, sleep, a headache tablet or two and 72 hours later, you’re through. Whether you are on NRT or not, you will still have cravings. Rather deal with these cravings without nicotine in your system because sooner or later you will have to give up the NRT and that is where a lot of people falter and go back to smoking.

]]> By: Bob http://www.willwilliams.co.uk/common-issues/smoking/nrt-vs-cold-turkey/comment-page-1/#comment-6836 Bob Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:58:13 +0000 http://www.willwilliams.co.uk/?page_id=156#comment-6836 Sounds logical Sue, but that's complete rubbish. People only smoke to get nicotine. Nicotine withdrawal is really nothing at all as long as your head is straight. People should stop being babies and expecting everything in life to be easy. Don't take NRT, you got yourself into the smoking trap, grit your teeth for two days and the nicotine leaves your system. Cheaper and less painful than dragging out your addiction for months. I quite smoking 3 months ago - 40 a day to nothing. Withdrawal wasn't remotely painful, I just didn't want to smoke any more and I figured any suffering I got as a result I deserved. Turned out to be nothing at all. Sounds logical Sue, but that’s complete rubbish. People only smoke to get nicotine. Nicotine withdrawal is really nothing at all as long as your head is straight.

People should stop being babies and expecting everything in life to be easy. Don’t take NRT, you got yourself into the smoking trap, grit your teeth for two days and the nicotine leaves your system. Cheaper and less painful than dragging out your addiction for months.

I quite smoking 3 months ago – 40 a day to nothing. Withdrawal wasn’t remotely painful, I just didn’t want to smoke any more and I figured any suffering I got as a result I deserved. Turned out to be nothing at all.

]]> By: Greg http://www.willwilliams.co.uk/common-issues/smoking/nrt-vs-cold-turkey/comment-page-1/#comment-6094 Greg Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:24:09 +0000 http://www.willwilliams.co.uk/?page_id=156#comment-6094 I agree with one of the last points made. You have to reach that %100 confidence level to make quitting easier. I think that is why they tell you to pick a quit date. I remember the day I quit I said to myself I can beat this monster. I looked at it in a competative kind of way. I tried to look at the cravings like a person your competeing against taunting you that your going to loose. Or basically trash talking. When I looked at the cravings in that way it boosted my confidence to say to my cravings,"$%^$ you your not gonna beat me!" I agree with one of the last points made. You have to reach that %100 confidence level to make quitting easier. I think that is why they tell you to pick a quit date. I remember the day I quit I said to myself I can beat this monster. I looked at it in a competative kind of way. I tried to look at the cravings like a person your competeing against taunting you that your going to loose. Or basically trash talking. When I looked at the cravings in that way it boosted my confidence to say to my cravings,”$%^$ you your not gonna beat me!”

]]> By: Sue http://www.willwilliams.co.uk/common-issues/smoking/nrt-vs-cold-turkey/comment-page-1/#comment-4859 Sue Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:35:05 +0000 http://www.willwilliams.co.uk/?page_id=156#comment-4859 It is logical to assume that if a smoker can address the other issues of their tobacco addition (a cigarette with coffee, when on the phone, after meals, when stressed, etc.) without the physical urge sabotaging their efforts, and then slowly weaning off the nicotine (clean nicotine without the 40 carcinogens drawn deep into the lungs), they would have much greater chance of a successful quit. I don't trust Big Pharm, but I do believe in logic. It is logical to assume that if a smoker can address the other issues of their tobacco addition (a cigarette with coffee, when on the phone, after meals, when stressed, etc.) without the physical urge sabotaging their efforts, and then slowly weaning off the nicotine (clean nicotine without the 40 carcinogens drawn deep into the lungs), they would have much greater chance of a successful quit.

I don’t trust Big Pharm, but I do believe in logic.

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