The secret to Nicoderm CQ® patches is a structured
program that gradually decreases your nicotine dependency
over a 10 week period—in effect weaning you from smoking.
The result is a greatly increased success
rate for quitting. So great in fact, studies show that
on average, NRT products such as Nicoderm CQ® can
double a smoker's chances of quitting successfully versus
cold turkey.
After reading the review above I would suggest that cardiologist is a smoker and is himself looking for reasons not to quit. To wean yourself off smoking over 2.5 years is bad advice if near impossible. You keep yourself addicted while denying yourself relief from the addiction. A recipe for misery. Read Alan Carr's book on giving up smoking.
I quit using Alan Carr's method for about a year a few years ago but had a relapse.
I am now trying again using this product. It has been really helpful. I can go without smoking without the suffering. It makes it much easier.
I have been using patches for 4 weeks now. I do have sensitive skin and I find if I put a patch on the same spot twice or place a patch on sensitive area it does give me a rash which lasts a few days due to the adhesive. However, a rash which lasts a few days is better than a smoking habit which lasts a life time and I would recommend this product.
I have been smoking for 15 years.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Reviewer: Anne
from Wisconsin, USA
Mar 03, 2007
I can do it this time!
It's been 3 days and I haven't had a cigarette! I'm only 25, but I started soming when I was about 16. I started on the step 2 since I only smoked about 8-10 cigarettes a day and it's worked so far. I'm a teacher, so I get stressed out easily, which is a big compenent on why I smoked for that many years. I've actually lost about 2 pounds since I've started the patches.
I've been walking my new puppy, which I bought myself for motivation to quit. I've also just been cleaning and knitting, working out and doing as mnay things as I can to keep busy. I already feel so much better, but I keep coughing, which I guess is normal.
I tried the commit lozenges, which helped me quit for a few days, but I've notices that sucking on peppermints or chewing gum while on the patch helps a lot. I always just think, "what if something happened to me and smoking was the reason why?" My father died from a heart attack when I was 9 most likely from drinking and smoking and I'm not about to have that happen to me!
Wish me luck!
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Reviewer: Freddy Zappa
from Seattle, WA USA
Nov 06, 2006
Ramdom Effectiveness
There are way too many variables involved in nicotine addiction to state whether any product can be effective. At best most products to aid quitting smoking are a shot in the dark. However if you use a nicotine substitute while recovering from the other effects of smoking you may find giving up nicotine at that point a little easier. Keep in mind that nicotine primarily affects dopamine and dopamine is a very powerful natural chemical in the body. Your best approach is too do what you can to keep your dopamine levels high while quitting. That means do things that you enjoy, that make you happy. The second criteria for success is to accept that your brain chemicals have to rebalance after you quit using nicotine and there is nothing you can do to speed this up other than being generally healthy. I believe it is this second criteria that enables people to quit successfully. Accept the recovery process ... fighting it only makes it harder.
16 of 19 people found the following review helpful.
Reviewer: Jan
from USA
Jan 13, 2006
nicoderm cq
I have been a smoker for 30 years. I saw an advertisment for a quit line, 1-800-quit now. I called and they asked what insurance company I had and said that the insurance will pay for and send nicoderm cq patches for 8 week program. They also have conselers that you can talk to. The first three days I had cravings while on the patch but it was not that bad. By the end of the week I hardly had any cravings, and am now on my second week. This is a wonderful product and I know now that I will never go back to smoking. I wish I used this a long time ago.
20 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
Reviewer: Melissa
from texas
Sep 17, 2005
nicoderm cq
the patch is wonderful devise to help you quit smoking, i used it once before and i quit for a year and a half. and on august the 24th i put on the patch and did great for five days and then had a stroke or something similair to a stroke twice in one day. had to remove the patch. i believe it caused my blood pressure to rise because i was on med , zoloft! the nurses called this nicotine withdrawal! needless to say i havent used the patch in two weeks and i am still free, SMOKE FREE!!
19 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
Reviewer: Marci K
from Atlanta, Ga USA
Apr 01, 2005
Second time around
I have been a smoker for 33 years. I tried to quit once before using the Nicoderm patch. I was not successful because I did not use it according to the directions. That was over 10 years ago. Two months ago, I began the program again. It HAS helped, but it is not a GOOD program because nicotine is a drug and without the advice and direction of a physician, it can be harmful if too much is absorbed. I had to consult a cardiologist because of the effects of receiving too much nicotine over the course of the day. He explained it this way: the urge for a cigarette is our addictive body's response to the need for the "fix". With the patch, our body doesn't have the opportunity to let us know when we need the "fix" because the patch is pumping it into our systems automatically and therefore, we are overdosing on the nicotine causing increased heart rates, sluggishness, and irritability as well as irratic sleep patterns and disturbances. This is a very expensive and harmful way to try to quit smoking. A doctor's program would most assuredly be the best. The cardiologist I spoke with said the best way to stop smoking is to wean yourself slowly from the amount of cigarettes smoked daily down to smoking only one or two a day and then just stopping. He said this should be done over the course of two years.
23 of 47 people found the following review helpful.
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