Its working for me. (Nicorette Inhalater)

Member Name: Johigh

Product:	Nicorette Inhalater
Date:	04/05/03 (754 review reads)
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Advantages: Satisfies physical cravings.

Disadvantages: Could cause sore mouth.

QUICK SUMMARY
If you are really serious about giving up and have prepared properly the inhalator can help to relieve your worst cravings. It deals with the psychological side as well as the physical side of the cravings. BUT, you have to be in the right frame of mind to start with, otherwise you could end up using it as a 'second best' replacement for cigarettes.

FULL REVIEW
There are a few things to note about the inhalator, they might not mean much to a non smoker, but they are important to a smoker who is trying to give up, so, here goes...

1) The inhalator gives you something to do with your hands and something to put in your mouth.
2) When you suck on it you get that 'drag' feeling at the back of your throat along with a hit of nicotine.
3) When you are desparate for a cigarette you can sit down with it like a cigarette and it gives you most of the things you are missing - enough to stop you wanting a cigarette.
4) You can keep it with you in a nice little box, like you do with your cigarettes.
5) You can use it in places where you can't smoke!
6) It can give you something to do when you are with a group of smokers.
7) They are relatively cheap (WAY cheaper than patches) and you can get them on prescription.
8) It might make your mouth or throat a bit sore or uncomfortable from time to time.
9) If you sniff a cartridge it makes your eyes water, so don't try it!

Having said all that, it is important to make the following distinction - thinking of the inhalator as a *replacement* for cigarettes is not the right way to go about giving up smoking - there is no way the inhalator is going to magically make you stop smoking on its own. BUT, If you are using the inhalator as a way of getting over the difficult moments, recognising that it is not a cigarette but a temporary safety net that you can use from time to time, then it could work for you.

MY EXPERIENCE
To sta

rt with I was using the inhalator quite regularly and was going through three or four cartridges a day. Now I am using the inhalator about once a day, only when I am desparate, and I am only changing the cartridge every other day.

I might be speaking too soon if I say that it has worked for me. It is only two weeks and two days since I had a cigarette, but I know that I am not going to have another one. I know that my head is in the right place this time - I really really do not want to be a smoker any more. I don't want to 'cut down' - I want to stop smoking. I think this is why the inhalator is working for me.

If I was using it as a way of replacing cigarettes It wouldn't be enough, because nothing is ever going to be as good as a real smoke, but I am seeing it as a safety net, and it is a very strong one because it temporarily gives me so many of the things I am yearning for during those desparate moments when it could go either way.

Oh, in case anyone is interested, I started smoking when I was 12 (I am now 33). For the past few years I had been smoking roll ups, Old Holbourn (dark tobacco) with no filter. I was using just over 50g a week. I suppose unfiltered dark tobacco must be pretty strong but I don't know what the equavalent is in packet cigarettes, so I can't really answer the 'how many a day' question. It was no more than 20 roll ups a day. When I was smoking packet cigs it was creeping up to over 20 a day, which was why I switched to roll ups.

UPDATE 31/03/04
Well, I'm still not smoking and its been almost a year!

UPDATE 03/09/06
Still not smoking!

Summary: An extremely effective replacement therapy to get you through the worst of the cravings.