As it sits, you get 12 weeks to get off cigarettes and nicotine. After that you're expected to stop both.
Now, they're thinking this isn't enough time.
Right, I get it it... I'll quit tomorrow....
Look, let's keep this simple - nicotine crosses the blood brain barrier intact. It can be as addictive as heroin for many. If you smoke, that's how you get your nicotine. Cigarettes, as Jeffrey Wigand put it, are a "delivery devise for nicotine." What other delivery devices for nicotine are there? eCigarettes, Chew, Snuff, Pipes, Cigars, Patches, Gum, Lozenges.
Heroin can be smoked, snorted, shot up.
How would you like your nicotine? Straight up or on the rocks? Phillip Morris is evil for selling nicotine in the form of a cigarette and GlaxoSmithKline are heroes?
Or, like any good cartel, looking for a better, more efficient way to deliver the drug into the body.
Don't fall for it people. Sooner or later you will have to do battle with your addiction to nicotine. How do take a band aid off? How do you dive in a pool? How do you conquer a fear? How much longer will you allow yourself to be a slave to chemical that is fatal at 30 - 60 mg?
From Wikipedia: "Historically, most cases of nicotine poisoning have been the result of use of nicotine as an insecticide."
That's real. You're smoking, chewing, sucking on, patching an insecticide. Enjoy that! Here's why I stopped. I was tired of giving control of my state to a chemical known to cause... you know the rest.
Take back control of your life and take control of your addiction. Do not allow a so called legitimate drug dealer to convince you that you need nicotine replacement therapy to get off cigarettes. You know what you need - you need you. You can do it on your own. That's the purpose of my book, How To Stop Smoking Without Killing Anyone. To help people take back control. NOT transfer it over from Big Tobacco to a pharmaceutical giant instead. You don't need more nicotine. You need to stop the cycle.
