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Anyone using Nicotine patches for Long Covid?
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I have purchased a box of Nicotine patches and then talked to two of my doctors about using them. Both of them suggest that I don’t use them as I was once a smoker. I haven’t used them as of yet, but reading your posts and others that have used them makes me want to! I’m going on 1 year of no taste or smell and frankly, it’s just awful. I’m currently having acupuncture to try to regain it, but that’s not working yet after about a dozen visits. Thanks for your post.
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I get your concern, I was a smoker for 10 years and quit 35 years ago. There is no way I could oils get addicted to these nicotine patches because I don’t even know they are on and I never think about them. The only time I think about them is when I see them by my toothbrush. The act of smoking, the feeling in your lungs, exhaling smoke, etc is a completely different act and dangerous to put burning chemicals in your lungs.
If you get a chance to listen to the podcast, it’s so cool because he explains how God puts all plants on earth for a reason and nicotine is not only in tobacco but in eggplant and other root vegetables.
Please don’t be worried, it’s just so great to have my senses back after almost 3 years! (It’s funny, my daughter has 4 young boys and with her 2 year old pre patches he could be sitting on my lap with a poop and I couldn’t smell it and now after patches he walks in the room and I know!)
Good luck!!
There are 15 chemicals (among the 200 in cigarettes) that tobacco companies were legally allowed to use in their cigarettes that made smoking addictive. In other words, it was NOT the nicotine that caused you to become addicted to smoking. I use to smoke up to 3 packs a day and I'm excited to try the nicotine patches for reasons other than quitting smoking. I haven't smoked since 1989. Good luck!
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Well, docs are thinking that you were addicted to nicotine and the habit of smoking. But you broke that habit and that addiction. I don't know how low a dose the patch delivers. But I would think if it's low, you wouldn't be in danger of getting readjusted. Especially since the studies have folks on very low dose, short time treatments. You would be stopping before you could become addicted. Maybe even do the patch, if it's low, remove after a couple of hours. When folks were using gum, they were utilizing low dose, chewing per instructions( you don't chew it constantly like gum, you chomp it then park it in mouth for awhile, then chomp again etc. With now drinking). Then they spit it out after 30 min. I can't see how you can get addicted to nicotine at that usage.