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Exactly. I’m 56. I remember “Cold Turkey is the only way to quit.” I don’t remember the last time I’ve heard it though. I believe the acceptance of using nicotine replacement therapy and prescription medicines to assist someone in their quit is directly related to the broadening of society’s acceptance of psychiatric drugs in general. Very few quitters that I speak to quit cold turkey. They almost all used something to aid them. Why shame someone for the method they used to quit? Why does it ‘have’ to be so hard? No matter the method, a person is only going to quit and stay quit when they truly want to. Support. Newbies and not so new newbies and even some vets need our support, not snobbery. Nor any type of negativity. As @intoxicated yoda said, So very thankful that I’m out! So very thankful for the help so many on board here give with their words.

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I’ve read this post multiple times and am enjoying reading the replies , too. I kind of still see the “cold turkey is the only [acceptable] way” - not with you guys here - but for example via fb link on the whyquit website, which I’ve read and skim once in a while still. I went cold turkey this time, last year I used patches. Both suck and it just sucks in general, at least for me right now. I don’t know the right answer. We have those weight loss shots spreading like wildfire right now, why can’t there be magical smoking cessation shots we can give ourselves….smozempic, anyone?

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You make great, important points here, Yoda: one of the implications of them (for me) is that there are fewer downsides to NRT than many cold turkey advocates sometimes suggest. Claims of the quitters who, for instance, are still chewing nic gum years after they stopped smoking are wildly overstated and hyperbolic IMO, and I've always been concerned that such messages (and the overall fetishization of the Cold Turkey quit) have limited overall quitting success rates (because people who might benefit from NRT are instructed and that the "best" or even only way to quit is CT). I'm not nearly as active in the cessation community as I used to be, so I don't know if the CT message is as strident and even exclusionary as it used to be. But my sincere hope is that more people have come to understand and honor the many different ways to effectively and healthily quit smoking. Christian99 21+ Years Quit

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