Try upping the nicotine level when the hyper stuff hits. It works well for me, and I take an ADHD too, hope it will for you too. Also, reread what Place ofhate wrote about the MAOIs.
Oh man does this strike a nerve. My mother knew there was something wrong with me she just didn't know what it was. She begged the schools and doctors for help and they all brushed her off. I was hyper and my concentration is just about 90 seconds. I started smoking when I was 13, could have been 12, didn't mark it on my calendar. I didn't really care for it nor did I realize I was self-medicating with it. I clearly remember when I first heard about ADHD/ADD on the radio. We were at a stop light in Lake Tahoe. I was in my 30s and was floored. My husband looked at me like a stunned puppy. He figured it out immediately too. Turned out I had something like 39 of 40 symptoms of ADHD on one test.
I blamed myself every day for most of my life for my inability to be "normal." I can't tell you what a relief it was to finally understand what was wrong with me and that it wasn't my fault. I was NOT fond of the idea of taking drugs for it and didn't for another 10 years or so because I didn’t want to be “medicated.” Stuuupid.
I was prescribed Concerta and it was just luck of the draw that it worked phenomenally for me. A whole new world. I mean an entirely new world. My life would have been immensely different if someone had bothered to help me as a kid. Not to say I have haven’t had a good adventurous life but it would have been vastly different. And I most likely never would have smoked. When I think about my childhood, the very first thing that comes to mind is my father constantly telling me to, "sit still and quit fidgeting." Teachers said that a lot too.
Finding the right medication seems to be highly individualized. Get the wrong one and it really messes you up. Other than keeping me up at night, so I take it very early in the morning now, I don’t feel like I’m “on” something. It seems to be the “fillers” that have a negative effect on people. Take the same active ingredient by different manufacturers and it’s like sticking your head in blenders set at different speeds. We lost our insurance at one point and I tried a slew of different ones, none of which worked. It was beyond miserable. It is worth the time and effort to find the correct medication.
Begin rant--They are tightly controlled drugs which means college kids who are too lazy to study every day have them readily available when they need to cram for a test and those of us that need them to have a normal life, not to mention keep our attention focused when we are driving, sometimes find them in very short supply.--End rant.
I would not have been able to stop smoking without the ecig. I don’t think I’m weak-willed. I’ve gutted my way through a lot of other things. I tried everything else available to quit, all a miserable failure. Ecig took a while to convert to but now it’s been over seven months and wow, I still can’t believe it.
Sorry this was so long.
I hope it helps.
