Amos: I am ten weeks without a smoke, and four weeks without nicotine. I had intended to stay on the patch for the rest of my time on this particular planet, but something prompted me to just drop it. This after thirty years of packaday. Funny thing was, I was so proud of that first six weeks, but when I dropped the patch, terrible things happened, even though I thought I had finished with the trauma. Unlike you, I could tell from my posts that I was overly sensitive, cranky, irritable, restless, agitated, agonized and sucking on altoid tangerines, but more to the point: CONFUSED. It was so bad, I ended up doing research on it, and found that about 60% of quitters get confused due to INCREASED OXYGEN TO THE BRAIN. That is, the end of vasoconstriction. This was physically evident as well, when I went for a cleaning at the periodontist. They knew all about the phenomenon. The good news is that, starting next week, statistically speaking, chances are I will not be confused anymore!

Congratulations, and good on us pink-hearted, well-oxygenated slightly corpulent ones for foregoing the self-mutilation.
Dan