![]() ![]() It is designed to release small quantities of drug into the blood stream over a long period of time. But this type of patch is actually a sophisticated drug delivery system. Using these "transdermal" drugs is simple. Remembering to take a drug frequently is hard for others.įortunately, some drugs can be taken by putting on a skin patch. Sign up for more great content, top tips and free advice to start you on your quitting journey.Many people benefit from drugs that are absorbed slowly and regularly. More importantly, we can show you how to quit easily and happily. Every Allen Carr facilitator was once a smoker ourselves and we all quit this way so we understand how smokers think. Smoking is 99% mental so you need a psychological solution to fix a psychological problem. Trying to fix a psychological issue with a physical product just doesn’t work, hence their ridiculously low success rates or insanely high failure rates. Why else would a smoker crave a cigarette weeks, months or even years after quitting? If cigarette cravings were due to nicotine withdrawal or a lack of nicotine, all smokers would be fine after 5 days of abstinence once the nicotine has left their bloodstream.īut they’re not, and the reason they’re not is because smoking is 1% physical and 99% mental. It just left me feeling miserable and deprived and desperate for a cigarette. I could stick a nicotine patch on my arm or chew on gum but not once did it remove my desire to want to smoke. They don’t address the psychological addiction, your desire to want to smoke and the belief that you’re ‘giving something up’.They keep you physically addicted to nicotine which leaves you wanting more of the drug.There are two main reasons why nicotine patches, gum and sprays don’t work: I once had a client who cycled 7kms in the pouring rain at 2am to buy a packet of smokes. Ask yourself what lengths you’d go to if you ran out of cigarettes late at night? You’ve probably been led to believe it’s because smokers are weak and lack willpower, but this simply isn’t true. So where does that leave you? The important thing for you to understand is why they have such low success rates. Double your chances of not much is still not much! When Big Pharma tell you their products will ‘double your chance of success’, they’re being honest. *Source: Journal Addictive Behaviours, Nov 2006. It’s near impossible to get a recent accurate figure from Google, but an independent scientific study* conducted shows a success rate of 3.4% for cold turkey and 6.2% for the nicotine patch. Yes, you read that correctly the success rate of the nicotine patch, nicotine gum, sprays and lozenges is less than 10%. ![]()
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