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Xabster2

Strongly recommend that those of you that smoke cigarettes or use a vape try out nicotine patches!

Opinion / Thought / Idea / Discussion

I always claimed that nicotine does something helpful for me without knowing exactly what things it helps with. I still think that today.

I thought that if it's actually helpful then shouldn't I try to get a constant therapeutic dose instead of these peak and troughs? So I bought the strongest nicotine patches, a pack of 21, and started using them every day.

I greatly reduced my vaping, my lungs felt better, i slept better, and I seemed to function better. In the past, when a task at home was difficult I would go to my bed and do big puffs of the vape and 10 minutes later I could overcome the task with new motivation. Now with the patch I don't do that all the time and instead I feel better all the time.

Since then I'm been reducing my nicotine intake very slowly and gradually and I still seem to have the therapeutic effect at 14mg/day patches.

Posted Aug 13, 2026, 4:12 PM UTC

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