Well, assuming a moderate intake of nicotine from your smoking, switching to patch at that level wouldn't cause a change in your circulatory system. So much for one of my 'bright' ideas..
You know, it just struck me, as I was writing this.. the totally absurdity, completely surreal, nature of this. And, by that, I don't mean to imply that your observation, condition, or your frank and open discussion of this 'event' in passing (so to speak) isn't important, genuine, real.. or anything along those lines.. It was just the... well thought... That if anyone had asked me pre illness, pre-diagnosis, pre this website... IF I ever thought that I would be sitting at a computer comparing notes on what passed from my (or anyone elses) backside with someone I never met, a grown man, and to be doing so on a non philosophical level, but on an intrinsiclly physiological level.... as if we were discussing global warming, or some similar event.. then I would have said back then.. that I seriously questioned their sanity.
And yet, here we are today.. grown ups who've never met, doing so in a totally sincere, earnest fashion.... and the relevance and importance is so real, so crucial.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again.. Life is just not predictable. As for those lil foreign objects... If I'd passed them, and flushed them, then I would have said (and please forgive the horrible pun and the extremely poor choice of language)
"Awwww shit!"