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- From: sue@netcom.com (Sue Miller)
- Subject: Re: Nicotine Withdrawal Help Needed
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.205135.5569@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <8283@news.duke.edu> <72611@cup.portal.com> <1992Dec30.181229.14076@spdcc.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 20:51:35 GMT
- Lines: 17
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- In article <1992Dec30.181229.14076@spdcc.com> dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:
- >In article <72611@cup.portal.com> mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes:
- >>> I receive less nicotine from my current levels of smoking than are provided
- >>> in the lowest dosage nicotine patch.
- >>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).
- >
- >I don't believe this is the case; the rate of absorption is crucially
- >dependent on an intact membrane between the skin and the nicotine
- >reservoir. Someone could get very ill following your instructions.
- >
- >--
-
- Someone I work with used the nicotine patches when he quit smoking,
- and had the same problem (wanting a smaller dosage). He bent the
- patch and taped it back away from his skin, and this seemed to work.
-