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- Subject: Re: Nicotine Withdrawal Help Needed
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.121543.559@news.wesleyan.edu>
- From: RGINZBERG@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Ruth Ginzberg)
- Date: 30 Dec 92 12:15:42 EDT
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- In <2338@hsdndev.UUCP> rind@binoc.bih.harvard.edu writes:
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- > In article <72611@cup.portal.com> mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson)
- > >Are you not using the patch for this reason? You can cut the patch dosage
- > >in half by taking a scissors and cutting the patch in half. Just use half
- > >of it at a time (or whatever you feel the correct dosage is).
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- > Two people have posted this as a possible solution. Nicotine
- > overdose can be fairly serious, so I wouldn't suggest anyone try this
- > unless someone can confirm that it's safe.
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- Well, if this wouldn't work, then surely there must be some substance you could
- put *between* your skin & the (uncut) patch which would slow the absorption of
- the nicotine. I don't know enough to be able to guess what would work, but
- *something* (??) surely would, no? cloth? saran wrap? vasoline? duct tape?
- etc.???? (must be some chemists out there who could figure this out...)
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- Ruth Ginzberg <rginzberg@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
- Philosophy Department;Wesleyan University;USA
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