Yeah like the first few days when getting urges I popped a lozenge and it did seem to relieve a little but then I have to wonder if part of that was me focusing on keeping my spit accumulating (lol) but I am sure it was also the absorbing of nicotine from the lozenge too--

On a side note: I could not believe they want the first 6 weeks for a person to take 1 lozenge every 1-2 hours..... that means if you are up 16 hours in a day; you would be taking 8-16 of these things.... I know I smoked almost every hour but idk, just seemd a bit much, I want to get rid of nicotine in my body- not just supply it by a different means-
And I was doing as you had suggested just when I felt a real urge (not a passing, I want a cig but the one of I need a cig.. the bad urge of "need") so I was taking 3-5 a day (which sort of surprises me)...... Then On the night of the 14th into the 15th (I work nights so this can be confusing) but I did not take any lozenges- Mainly due to the tummy issues and I don't want to be farting all day - and today (15th into the 16th) I have not taken any either-- I was thinking maybe just go cold turkey and my tummy is a lot better now-- yeah it sucks but oh well... I need to quit

Yeah me too with scaring myself with it, the Doctor on the 7th scared me... I don't want to be on oxygen at 30. If my cough does not get better here soon, she wants x-rays,..... i don't like this at all... I am 25.. Too young to be worrying about cancer or stuff like this right-- but then again, I have been smoking 7-8 years with asthma..with other bad influences from the past as well.... blah...

IDK-- I was an addict to coke, meth, and weed at points of my life as well--Or just the simple fact of getting high off of any thing- I know this may be lying to myself in ways but I keep telling myself the Cigs will be like those-- I still have urges to go get messed up or high these days, but i don't.. I stay sober..... I keep telling myself with the urge to smoke is the same thing, and with the drugs I don't get them- so why with the cigs right .... maybe that is an odd mind set.. but lets see if it works.

I hope I stay on this no smoking path-- Cigs are so easy to get ahold of.... But I will try to remind myself why I am doing this-- I think i will do ok if they are not around me... (I have already had a mini-melt down at home, and some annoying things at work too--with not smoking, so I think I can do this (maybe?))

I wish I had strength for my boyfriend and I -- he has been smoking for 18 years, he has been trying to quit with me -- he has smoked 2 cigs since the 11th and I told him that even though that happened-- I am still proud of him- an 18 year pack a day smoker trying to quit and has done well

Suki22 I hope you well with stopping- I really do-- this is hard, but i am just trying to focus on the what I don't want and that smoking continuously will probably end up like that... IDK if that helps....

and yeah it has taken a lot of the wanting to quit smoking... I tried a few times before with stooping and did not make it close to a week for "I love to Smoke!", and this time around I am just tired... I am tired of being sick.. I am afraid of being put on oxygen.. I can't afford cigs plus a 235 inhaler with my regular inhaler... and cause-- smoking for the main part... solution- cut off the smokes

I have been reading more on cold turkey, and idk- make sense though, to take away the thing you are addictive to and stop- instead of feeding it to your body in a different form to "wing" off....... which for some makes with draws worse..

sigh---- lets see how I am in 4 months that is what I keep telling myself, but yet0-- just worry about today...

Thanks for the support by the way

sorry for the ramble... Cigs are like drugs-- i probably could talk for a long time on them