Quit smoking NRT products

I have got a real ‘bee in my bonnet’ today about quit smoking NRT products. I mean things like nicotine patches, gum and lozenges and the like. I’m like that you see. I get an idea in my head and it bugs me all day.

The thing that gets me about quit smoking NRT products is that they don’t make any sense. Afterall, how do people expect to solve their nicotine addiction (and let’s face it, that is why smokers smoke) with more nicotine? It simply does not make sense – much less so when like me, you fully understand why smokers smoke (it isn’t just about nicotine addiction but that is the major part!).

Before considering using quit smoking NRT products, you should ask yourself the following questions:

  1. Do alcoholics use alcohol to overcome alcoholism or do they use abstinence?
  2. Do cocaine addicts turn to cocaine as a means of overcoming their cocaine addiction or do they find success in abstinence?
  3. Do heroine addicts successfully overcome heroine by taking more heroine or by going cold turkey?
  4. Do paedophiles become cured of paedophilia by being supplied with young children to manifest their perversion?

Of course the answer to all these questions is no, no, no. We could discuss the use of methidone to overcome heroine addiction but that is merely replacing one addiction with a similar addiction. Replacing heroine addiction with methidone addiction. Of course the last question is the most offensive but I am not here to give you a nice time, I am here to shock you into realising that nicotine is not going to solve nicotine addiction.

There is no way that quit smoking NRT products are going to help smokers overcome their nicotine addiction. To add to that, other forms of smoking cessation drug have been shown to have very poor long term success rates. Sure they work for the first 6 months (sometimes) at the rates that are publicised, but not in the longer term. Why?

Simple – people still miss cigarettes. They give them up instead of kicking them out of their lives forever. They don’t understand why they smoke so they don’t understand how to quit smoking. This is really important becasue if you don’t know how to do something, it is more difficult to achieve success.

To read more about my views on quit smoking NRT products, read the following post: The Nicotine Replacement Therapy Scam.

As ever, never stop trying to quit.