Smoking after quit date
What happens if I have a cigarette after I have stopped?
- Nicotine patches are like any other medicine; to help them work you need to use them every day
- People who try to stop smoking often have ‘slip ups’. This means that after cutting out all cigarettes they sometimes smoke a little
- If you have a slip up and smoke a little, do not give up quitting and keep using your patches
- If your slip up does not end and you smoke every day for 2 weeks or more, but are still using patches, talk to your stop smoking practitioner