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18 years ago 0 +0 / -0 1010

Hi Missy! Interesting about the nicotine leaving the body. My doc has told me it takes 1 week for it to clear the body but if it is crystalized in the bladder, it could take longer thus the whole reasoning for drinking TONS of water to flush out the crystals. [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 9/21/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 91 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 1,372 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $273 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 8 [B]Hrs:[/B] 1 [B]Mins:[/B] 27 [B]Seconds:[/B] 35

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18 years ago 0 +0 / -0 1010

Hi K! I cornered my doc and asked her all kinds of questions. One of them was nicotine leaving the body. She said the more water we drink, the more it breaks up and elaves hte body. I drink cranapple juice to help break up the crystals too. Not sure if that helps or not, but it is good for me anyhow =) [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 9/21/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 91 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 1,372 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $273 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 8 [B]Hrs:[/B] 1 [B]Mins:[/B] 28 [B]Seconds:[/B] 26

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18 years ago 0 +0 / -0 1010

HI K! You do whatever it takes for you to continue your quit =) I have always drank lots of water =) As for juice? Well, I drink it..not nearly enough but enough ;) [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 9/21/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 91 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 1,373 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $273 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 8 [B]Hrs:[/B] 1 [B]Mins:[/B] 40 [B]Seconds:[/B] 34

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18 years ago 0 +0 / -0 1010

Well, I messed that all up!! LOL!!! It should have been 10 weeks of patches. 6 weeks of 21 mg 2 weeks of 14 mg 2 weeks of 7 mg That's how it goes. [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 9/21/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 91 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 1,369 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $273 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 8 [B]Hrs:[/B] 1 [B]Mins:[/B] 9 [B]Seconds:[/B] 40

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18 years ago 0 +0 / -0 1010

It should have been 8 weeks of patches. 4 weeks of 21 mg 2 weeks of 7 mg 2 weeks of 7 mg [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 9/21/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 91 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 1,369 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $273 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 8 [B]Hrs:[/B] 1 [B]Mins:[/B] 9 [B]Seconds:[/B] 32

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18 years ago 0 +0 / -0 1010

Hi K! I messed up my first post. I was distracted by my daughter talking to me about something or another and I wasnt thinking. So that is why I reposted what I was originally thinking in the first place. [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 9/21/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 91 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 1,370 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $273 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 8 [B]Hrs:[/B] 1 [B]Mins:[/B] 11 [B]Seconds:[/B] 40

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18 years ago 0 +0 / -0 8760

Kaitilna, On average, it takes three days however this depends on the severity of your dependence. Danielle ______________________ The SSC Support Team

18 years ago 0 +0 / -0 3307

So sorry to hear that you are going though a rough time. Please stick with it. The nicotine is leaving your body. Give it a couple more days :) I am wearing a rubber band (two) around my wrist and everytime I thought about a cig or had a crave I snapped it. It hurts like hell. But I just look at it and tell myself "Snap out of it!!" I have gone cold turkey this time and I feel so much better. If it get to rough pop one of those gums, but the sooner you can get rid of the nicotine the better. Now you ask for a recount from me - now stay quit for me (us) YOU ;) [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 12/11/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 9 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 98 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $27 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 1 [B]Hrs:[/B] 7 [B]Mins:[/B] 25 [B]Seconds:[/B] 25

18 years ago 0 +0 / -0 586

imallclear, Nicotine doesn't leave your system within 3 or 4 days... that's when withdrawals peak so it's certainly still there and depending on your smoking history, it will be there for some time longer. Patch programs vary depending on how much you smoked before and by brand. Don't worry if you need the longer program. We smoked for years... use patience in making your quit solid and successful. In my opinion, you're at a fragile stage in your quit so if there's ANY miniscule risk whatsoever that you could fail without staying with your chosen NRT program, then you should continue it. It's simply not worth the risk of smoking again. Period. Believe me, remembering to put a patch on every day isn't near the hassle of treatment for cancer! Since you've been on the lower dose for a while, you may want to speak with the pharmacist or doctor about how to continue. Like said before me... Whatever it takes, just don't smoke :) [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 2/2/2005 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 687 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 13,748 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $2452.59 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 72 [B]Hrs:[/B] 18 [B]Mins:[/B] 46 [B]Seconds:[/B] 51

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18 years ago 0 +0 / -0 763

The junky in you that is a pal of this addiction does NOT just go away when the nicotine is out of your blood stream. He hangs on for some time....looking for opportunities to take over your thinking and then your actions. When he enters your head, you must use some sort of coping techniques to MAKE him leave. At the least you must distract yourself from listening to him. If you can't maintain without the patch (was it better when you were still on it??) then by all means get BACK on it. I used patches for a total of almost 4 months...I felt helpless when faced with cold turkey....it scared hell out of me....the patches were just the thing to give me the edge against this addiction. DON'T SMOKE!!!! Do whatever it takes to accomplish that. Using an aid for an extended period of time is MUCH better than loosing and going back to smoking Katy [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 1/4/2002 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 1812 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 72,492 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $10328.4 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 236 [B]Hrs:[/B] 9 [B]Mins:[/B] 17 [B]Seconds:[/B] 2

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