I saw the Dr today (about a couple of things which she did help with) and while I was there mentioned my plan to give up smoking and requested some nicotine patches.
First she asked me if I wanted to come to the stop smoking clinic where they could tell me about chewing gum and inhalers, so I thanked her but said no, I had looked at all the options and tried other methods in the past and I know patches work reasonably well for me.
She asked how much I smoke currently (around 7-10 a day) and wrote me a prescription which I dutifully thanked her for and took to the chemist without paying much attention to.
After waiting at the chemist for a little while they came and told me that they didn't stock the patches on the prescription and they weren't sure if anyone else would either because they couldn't even order them in.
So, I had a closer look. The recommended first step for around 10 a day is 2 weeks of 14mg patches.
She's prescribed me 5 days of 5mg patches.
Even if these patches weren't next to impossible to source aibu to think they wouldn't be strong enough to actually get me through the horrible first few days and that sellotaping a cigarette to my arm would probably provide about the same amount of nicotine? and that 5 days isn't enough anyway!
I'm irritated because I'm already anxious about giving up smoking and this has made it worse
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Mandatorymongoose · 20/04/2015 22:01
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