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Chris quit right before Christmas. He said that the hard part wasn't the nicotine cravings, it was the behavior patterns. He tried using the gum, but it was too strong. He tried the medium dosage patch, that worked great for the first day, but found the second day that it too, was too strong. After that he did it on his own. He had one backslide, but that was behavioral rather than "I've got to have a smoke". He always grabbed a smoke when he got on the phone with someone - well, we hadn't moved his smoking supplies, so he went to call his brother, and, not thinking, grabbed a cigarette. He said he got two puffs before he remembered (when his throat started burning), and he put it out. I missed the whole thing, I was at work. He told me about it that night and man was he mad at himself about it! It's been a month now, and as far as I can tell (I'm sure he'll correct if I'm wrong), he's doing great.
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