If you do a search on healthboards there is an old post of others who were also addicted to afrin. Some said that after 3 days the symptoms were gone the stuffiness. Also some strong salt water in an old bottle and others went to their Dr's to get help to get off it with rinocort and nasacort so I would check around. My mom is a nurse and would never let us even use nasal spray cause it was so addicting. So people in the medical field are aware of this. Good luck and you can kick all your addictions I kicked all mine but the smokes so good luck. Kim