Patches are one of the most common “quit smoking” aids used out there. They are the major segment of a branch of aids called NRT, or “nicotine replacement therapy”, and worth about 2 billion dollars a year globally.
Hey, did you notice the word “therapy”? It’s as if these drugs are good for you, right? If that were the case, then why are they so darned expensive? In fact, I know many smokers who won’t use NRT because it costs more than cigarettes!
But maybe you’ve tried patches in the past? Your doc and the drug companies tell you that you can increase your chances of quitting by using them and then cut down on your patches. What they don’t tell you is that you’ll either get addicted to the patches, the lozenges and the gum and have a newer, even more expensive habit (albeit without the tar and other chemicals) or that you’ll just give them up and start smoking again and flick back and forth between cigarettes and NRT for the rest of your life.
Have you ever tried a patch? I once tried them when I smoked. Slapped one on my arm and it made me feel very ill so I ditched the patch and just started smoking again instead.
Patches just don’t work. All they do is take away the tar, radioactivity and other chemicals in tobacco. You still have the nicotine (which can damage your body anyway) and you still believe that you are addicted to nicotine. You will still be hooked.
