Talk: Nicotine patch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Withdrawal and reenforcing addiction. Pharmacotherapy Options in the Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea. Davila et al utilized the transdermal nicotine patch in their study while Zevin et al. This page includes the following topics and synonyms: Sleep, Sleep Stage, REM Sleep, Rapid-Eye-Movement Sleep. Acute effects of transdermal nicotine on sleep architecture, snoring, and sleep-disordered breathing in nonsmokers. As far as I know, not one person has ever died from nicotine withdrawal. Moreover, nicotine dependency is short- lived. Nicotine is completely out of the body in 4. At that point, physical cravings cease. Anyone who can go 4. Nicotine is highly addictive, however. Official Full-Text Publication: The effect of transdermal nicotine patches on sleep and dreams on ResearchGate, the professional network for scientists. Effects of the 16 h-nicotine patch (left) and the 24 h-nicotine patch (right) on slow wave sleep duration (SWS) (squares) and microarousals (circles) measured by polysomno. Any small amount, even from second- hand smoke, will immediately reenforce nicotine addiction - resetting the clock back to 4. The nicotine patch will guarantee that the addiction clock is reset back to 4. Logic might suggest that one cannot end nicotine addiction by taking nicotine. Unlike heroine or alcohol withdrawal, you cannot die from smoking cessation. Therefore, a step- down program would appear to be unnecessary, and fails as a quitting aid in a great many cases. Perhaps the best method to fight cravings is exercise which causes the body to produce its own endorphins. These endorphins in turn negate many of the effects of withdrawal. It seems likely that the cigarette industry would love to convince everyone that it is impossible to quit smoking. That way, people would not ever try to quit. Short of this, the next best thing would be to convince everyone that it is very difficult to quit smoking. Read 'Effects of nicotine replacement therapies on sleep' on DeepDyve - Instant access to the journals you need!Then people will give- up trying more easily. How can this information be included in the article? Or is this article monitored by the advertising agencies and public relations firms for the patch sellers and the cigarette companies? Wikipedia's not the place for that. Accusing Big Tobacco of things without evidence is not objective, and not encyclopedic. You completely ignore the psychological addiction, which is the hardest part of quitting. Smokers come to think of the cigarette as a magic wand that relieves stress and makes them feel good. Even years after one quits smoking, one will feel cravings. Trust me, beating the phsycological side effects is much harder. The patch helps with that, because it just feels like you're fine without nicotine at all (it's a lot harder to ignore a patch sitting on your arm than something you actively light, smoke from, ash, and throw away). This helps us learn on a subconscious level that the cigarette is not magic, and that we don't need it to feel good. The gradual decrease is detox, so that when we finally finish with the patches, we might not even notice the physical withdrawal. February 2. 00. 9 (UTC)Patch Concerns. I also found that if you are trying to eliminate your body of nicotine because you want to quit smoking you can't use artificial nicotine products because they continuously put nicotine into your body never getting rid of the nicotine, so its better to go cold turkey as hard as it may be for you. Psychopharmacology of REM Sleep and Dreams. People on the nicotine patch. Some drugs can influence REM sleep and dreaming indirectly via their effects on NREM sleep-especially slow wave sleep. How does smoking cigarettes affect sleep? Learn about the contribution to insomnia, snoring, and sleep apnea. Discover more reasons to finally quit. The point of patches and other nicotine delivery systems is to deliver the nicotine without the harmful effects of tabbaco. Gradually you lower the dosages until you're off of them. Smokers are addicted to cigarettes in two ways: physically and mentally. Going cold turkey and trying to combat both addictions at the same time is nearly impossible. Instead, with the help of the patch, you can first fight the mental addiction and the actual action of smoking a cigarette. After 6 weeks of not smoking a cigarette, you can begin lowering your patch strength and hence your nicotine intake. This tiered approach really does seem to be the easiest way. I've been a smoker for many years and could not believe how much the patch helped with my cravings. February 2. 00. 7 (UTC)I'm sorry but that . All of the studies I have heard reported (I'll try to find some citations) show that no single method works for even a slight majority of smokers. Cold turkey is the best method for some smokers. I quit a 3. 0 year habit on the first attempt by tapering off until I went down to about 1. Then I went on the patch. I did this on the advice on smoking cessation counselors, with mine own emphasis on recording and triggers. People are different and one size does not fit all - - once again. Bostoner (talk) 0. August 2. 00. 8 (UTC)To those who think cigarette smoking is easy to give up, may I say you are totally wrong. I have tried uncountable times over the last 3. Firstly, the smoker has to really want to give up and to try what ever it takes to do so. Along side that are the long term addiction problems, the mental and the physical. The mental can be the hardest for many to remove from their life styles. A lot of smokers are unconscious smokers and just would light up with out a thought of if they were really having a physical craving or not. Physical aids such as patches, gum, and oral spray curve the physical so a smoker can first concentrate on the mental cravings, their environment and their triggers. I have given up now for two days now and with my doctors advice I am using two aids at once. The patch and the oral spray (which I never had tried before). So far it's been fantastic, as I can concentrate on my mental craving, before removing the physical one. This is the first time I feel in control of addition. May I also say giving up cold turkey is one of the hardest ways to give up and for me personally and friends of mine, was never successful long term, as the mental addition and triggers easily start people back up smoking. These people, including myself, are helped by medically prescribed patches. The idea that nobody has 'died' from nicotine withdrawl is valid, unless you take into effect the irrational actions caused by it - in which case people have either hurt themselves or others due to exasperated anger/ anxiety. June 2. 01. 6 (UTC)Dreams claims suspect. It was so scary that I'm still weeping. I have had nicotine patch dreams before that are intense and positive, but mine usually have very negative, nightmarish elements. The worst part is, when I become lucid, as I would in a normal dream, and ask, . I have discontinued nicotine patches from my nightly habit, but I fell asleep napping and this happened. I am seriously considering discontinuing patch use due to this experience. And nicotine generally reduces sexual desire, so the erotic dreams claim does not seem very logical - -Nctn 1. July 2. 00. 7 (UTC)Google nicotine patch and lucid dreaming. You'll find plenty about vivid dreams and some complaints of nightmares. I assume that some claiming satisfaction with the patch were seeking erotic dreams. I'd argue that it is a very reasonable claim. Some dream more vividly (or at least remember their dreams more, because they wake up during them); some do not. Some find the dreams to be pleasant. The patch is effective enough to at least try it. I had no problem with dreams. When I do get nightmares, they stop bothering me when I wake up and find out that they are not real, but then again, I'm not a very spiritual person. Bostoner (talk) 0. August 2. 00. 8 (UTC)Any drug that messes with neurochemistry (which nicotine does) is going to have the potential to cause dreams and/or dream disruption. Since you usually don't smoke while sleeping, the patch will likely be the first time you've gone through REM sleep with significant amounts of nicotine in your system. The positivity or negativity of the dreams, like those of hallucinations, is probably based more on your own state of mind than on the drug. That's why a lot of people will refuse to take hallucinogens when they are in a bad mood. They believe (and with some justification) that it will lead to a . As a friend of mine would say, . I am not a smoker and nerver was ,so I have a question I am taking the lowest dose I could find 7mg/hour. If I only take the patch at night will have withdrawal symptoms? Ethan hines (talk) 2. December 2. 01. 1 (UTC)i had some pretty dope dreams on patches. Had a few nights with weird dreams on the 2. Now about a month later, I wanted to try again and went right to the 1. I did not have 2. I was determined to stop anyway). I am having the most lucid, (sometimes nightmarish horrible/twilight zone type) dreams on the 1. Although, they all have a similar theme, so perhaps I am stressed about that issue subconsciously more than I was before. And oddly enough, I am having less cravings to smoke on 1. I am so determined to be done with smoking this time. I really wasn't last time. I smoke at least 2 packs of cigarettes a day. If a single cigarette delivers 1 mg. I would have to wear 2 patches to escape the nicotine cravings. Is there any harm in that? Nicotine is not my problem, lung capacity is. That can lead to DEATH. Talk to a doctor if you think they won't be enough. Also, Wikipedia is definitely not the place to seek medical advice. February 2. 00. 9 (UTC)According to a Duke University study that you can find on the Clinicaltrials. NCT0. 07. 34. 61. X6. 54. 37. 01 they did a study about wearing two 2. In fact, heavy smokers who wore two patches for the first stage of quitting had a slightly better quit rate than those who wore one patch and a placebo patch. All the same I would show this study to your doctor and ask if you could try it. Better safe than sorry. June 2. 01. 6 (UTC)I gave up yesterday. With my doctors advice I am using the strongest patch with the oral spray, as I have been a heavy smoker and smoked for over 3. I have tried just the patches with no success, as I too did not find them strong enough. I have made uncountable attempts to quit. Cold turkey, was the hardest and I could only last the most for a week each time. The nicotine gum becomes addictive and I was popping in my month all the time and chewing like a jersey cow all day and waking during the night to chew. I hurt my teeth and gums. Eventually after 6 months to 1 year I would have to just switch back to cigarettes. This is my second day using the patch and oral spray combination and I am feeling very confident this is helping. I feel in control of my addition. My doctors and I plan is when I am ready, is to slowly cut down the oral spray, firstly by spraying less in my mouth each time I have a craving, then to try resist cravings with out spraying and eventually not use the spray at all.
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