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Originally Posted by nostatic
I never said everyone can quit cold turkey (though perhaps my comments could be construed as such).
However, for those of you that tried and couldn't stay off, did you try meditation? Psychotherapy? Other cognitive behavioral therapy? There are a variety of perhaps non-obvious tools that can be used to help change behavior. I'm curious how many things people actually try before they declare they can't change.
I'm working with a PT/acupuncturist to try and reverse decades of poor physical mechanics and accumulated sports injuries/crashes. It is painful, inconvenient, and will take months to get long-term results (and require years of continued stretches/exercises). I could just throw up my hands and either ignore it (and slowly lose the ability to play music), or do medication to mask the problem for a couple more years.
There usually are different options available for dealing with personal issues. Often we don't see more than one or two though.
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Again, my comments were "if the shoe fits...", it's why I did not directly quote you, it's a general comment on the thread.
Like others in this thread our issue is not the smoking habit or even addiction to nicotine.
Very simply we have made a subconscious correlation between nicotine use and the ability to function normally. A diagnosis that is not without medical / scientific basis.
There's a lot more going on clinically with a lot of us that willpower simply can't fix.
I don't see a difference between Nicotine and any other prescription my doc might write.