I'm finally going to do it.

[babs7262]

Hey Win

Did you know wellbutrin is actually zyban? Insurance companies (most of them) didnt cover smoking drugs so the company reissued it as wellbutrin so insurance companies will cover it. Its disguised as an antidepressant but it actually is a smoking drug. That happened when I was a pharm tech and the pharmacist told me back in 1998.

 

[same_old]

ok I have tried it all- First off i got hypnotized and that worked for about a month, just didnt think of it but then one day without even noticing I had a smoke in my mouth - and then I was hooked again. I tried Zyban and god did that f%&k with my head, I felt like shit for weeks when i was on Zyban it really stuffs with your head.


There is actually a new drug out that takes the pheromones from your brain or something like that so the craving is no longer there.

My troubles are what CM was saying- coffee breaks, lunch, waking up in the morning all these things I need to change..

I thought having my little boy would do it but it hasnt, I DO NOT smoke in the house or anywhere near him...


please sweet -sweet baby jesus all curled up in that manger .(talladaga nights)

 

[ballysdb]

I know a few people that quit using Chantix. That seems to be the one I hear about the most.

My Mom quit when she was 44. She thumbtacked her last pack of Pall Mall to the kitchen wall. She never smoked again.

I will be 44 next week but as another person said, things are just too stressful for me to quit. I will try to cut down alot. I smoke about a pack a day.

Good luck Win!

 

[mercy]

Good luck to you Winbig!!!!!!!!! I am on Chantix right now. I have been on it for 3 weeks now, and I haven't had a cig for a week now. The cravings aren't there, but Chantix sure messes with your head, and sleep. The dreams in 3d will wake you up. Anyway, good luck to you, and keep trying if you don't succeed the 1st time.

 

[lots0]

I first started smoking when I was in the 5th grade( I think I was about 10 or 11)... It was the cool thing to do don't ya know... (I use to watch Fred Flintstone cartoons on Saturday morning sell Salem cigarettes...)

I quit at 46, after 4 heart attacks(one major).
Like Bryan I smoked non-filter Camels and Pal Mal's.

It took me two years after I quit, before I stopped dreaming about smoking...

Don't stop trying to quit!

Don't ever put yourself down because you start smoking again, almost everyone starts back up after trying to quit.

Quiting smoking is a learning process for most. I tried to quit so many times I lost track.. But every time I learned something new to avoid, some other way to fight the addiction cravings.

Like Bryan I quit cold turkey... IMO it is the only way to quit.

Patches or nic gum are just another way to deliver nicotine to your body and nicotine is what your addicted too. Also, you might want to check out who owns most of those companies that make the nicotine patches or drugs... They are Tobacco companies, you know the guys that want to keep you addicted to nicotine.

I have never met anyone that totally quit smoking by using patches or drugs. For most people, as soon as you stop the using the patches or drugs the cravings will come back full force... and then some.

Oh ya, one last thing that really helped me to quit....

Every time I got a craving, I remembered that the Tobacco companies have

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(like how the drug pushers refine cocaine into crack cocaine) and added it to your cigarettes (yes it is legal).

The Tobacco companies add this refined nicotine to your cigarettes in order to make it almost impossible for you to quit... They want you totally and completely addicted to nicotine... and the longer you wait the stronger the tobacco companies refined nicotine formula gets...

Someone (the Tobacco companies) wants to keep you addicted... They work very hard at keeping you addicted, they research everyday how to keep you addicted and spend billions every year on figuring out just how to get you addicted and then keep you addicted.

The idea that a group of people was actually working very hard trying to keep me smoking and addicted to nicotine even when it was killing me... This really made me angry and that made it a little easier to not ever pick up a cigarette again.

Good Luck WinBig... Keep at it, you'll make it.

 

[babs7262]

re: chantix

I would read up on that Winbig. Im sure you already know the side effects but Im just looking out for you incase you missed the news on it

 

[heatherad]

re: chantix

I would read up on that Winbig. Im sure you already know the side effects but Im just looking out for you incase you missed the news on it

Ditto babs..
One of the major side affects is suicidal tendencies. I know of couple of friends who opted for Chantix to help them quit smoking and first and foremost, it didn't work in the long run and it made them depressed.
I have heard alot of success stories of people using the Nicorette Inhaler.

 

[Jasminebed]

Not there yet

Well, my first day "quit" lasted about 13 hrs. But I had only just started back on Zyban, so I decided to give it the recommended time to get into my system and go back to my originally planned quit date of October 3rd. That would be the anniversary of my father's death, who died from pneumonia after 63 years of smoking.

I find it reduces the amount I smoke if I leave my cigarettes in a different room than I am in, and my lighter in a third.

 

[CasinoDN]

You know, just before checking my email and getting the subscription for this thread, I had already decided to log in and post about how I felt that drugs were just plain bad news to be avoided at all costs if at all possible. In this case, however, I suppose for some it may be hard to avoid the nicotine-replacement types for a time, but I do believe that cold turkey is really the only truly best way - even though you might wind up writhing and wailing around like Gene Hackman in The French Connection for a while at first.

I found lots0's post #30 above to be rather, shall we say, compelling reading. It says below it, "The Following User Says Thank You to lots0 For This Useful Post:
mercy," and I had tried to do that too but could not find the feature for that, only something about sending "reputation."

It could be a lot harder to go cold turkey for someone who smoked for many years vs. perhaps just a few, but hopefully there is at least also some support in the form of spouses or friends and so forth. The payoff can be very big in the end, though - worth everything it took.

 

[suzecat]

You know, just before checking my email and getting the subscription for this thread, I had already decided to log in and post about how I felt that drugs were just plain bad news to be avoided at all costs if at all possible. In this case, however, I suppose for some it may be hard to avoid the nicotine-replacement types for a time, but I do believe that cold turkey is really the only truly best way - even though you might wind up writhing and wailing around like Gene Hackman in The French Connection for a while at first.

I found lots0's post #30 above to be rather, shall we say, compelling reading. It says below it, "The Following User Says Thank You to lots0 For This Useful Post:
mercy," and I had tried to do that too but could not find the feature for that, only something about sending "reputation."

It could be a lot harder to go cold turkey for someone who smoked for many years vs. perhaps just a few, but hopefully there is at least also some support in the form of spouses or friends and so forth. The payoff can be very big in the end, though - worth everything it took.

CasinoDN............justa guess, really............but you've never been addicted to nicotine, have ya?

Anyways, I've smoked for 40 years and have quit three times.............first time when I was 17 (shoulda never started again), second time at 39 (who wants to be a 40-year old smoker) and third time at 47 (after my first, and only, heart attack). So I was thinking about using Chantix, which at $125 is about the same cost as my ciggy habit. If that doesn't work, I am going to try the duct tape method..................I'll let you know about the French Connection flop if that happens...............

 

[kakata]

My wife was very helpful for me.
She doesnt smoke....but to help me ,I made her use all the drugs and patches Ive bought, it doesnt work for me but Ive read about those suicidal temptetions., it may really help me......you never know

 

[CasinoDN]

CasinoDN............justa guess, really............but you've never been addicted to nicotine, have ya?

Well, speaking "hypothetically," I may have smoked for almost two years from around 16 to near 18, long enough to get hooked if you're going to. If I did ever do that, I think you're right - I don't believe I was ever truly addicted physically at all. That is, if I did any of that, you see. But nonetheless, there may have been a time then when it was more or less inconceivable to me to no longer be a smoker, perhaps around 1 to 2 packs a day, maybe averaging out around 1 or partly over 1 for that whole time. But of course, this is all speculation on my part - maybe I did those things and maybe not. (Much harder stuff to discuss than showing public support for online gambling - go figure.) So high school ends, you're no longer surrounded by zillions of fellow smokers, as if practically the entire student body is doing it, and then you receive a true and total desire, as if being called. Then cold turkey all the way, never looking back even decades later, but also some of those early dreams at first. Hypothetically speaking, of course.

 

[winbig]

*bump* 3.5 months later, and I'm finally in the right mindset to do this...I put on my first patch 30 minutes ago.

Quitting smoking was one of my new year's goals, as well as many others, which include losing 20 pounds. I really ballooned up this past year, and I need to drop it.....

 

[BingoT]

Good Luck to ya Winbig

 

[purpletin]

Hey Winbig. Hope you kick it.

I tried patches, gum, inhalers etc all to no avail.

Then I read Allen Carr's book "The easy way to stop smoking".

I lasted for 6 weeks the first time. I then read it for a second time which was 14 months ago and I have not smoked since and can honestly say I do not miss it one bit.

The addiction for me was all in the mind, once I had reprogrammed it all was well. The key is not to quit quitting. Good luck

 

[Jasminebed]

The key is not to quit quitting. Good luck

Thank you purpletin. Most people who quit successfully have quit unsuccessfuly before.

I'm going to give it another go round shortly. Winter is a good time for me to do it for a number of reasons, including a new grandbaby and an upcoming surgery.

Thanks for bumping your thread Winbig

 

[jas2587]

on Nov 23rd 2007 I decided to quit smoking so I asked my Dr for Chantix this was before they decided to come public that if you have a mental illness do not use this product
my quit date was decided for Dec 1st they allow you to smoke the 1st week of taking the pill then on the 2nd week they say no smoking ok im cool not smoking at all by the 3rd week I decide I got to have just 1 ciggy I light up I get that feeeling of all the oxygen leaving my brain i sorta get dizzy next thing I know I am in the bathroom getting violently sick

I decide well hell I am not gonna smoke again an I am not gonna take a pill again but then the weird stuff started happening I was telling people that I want this ring to go to that person an that car to go to this 1 I was giving away my possessions verbally thinkin I was gonna die I talked on the phone to a few online people an was telling them that when I passed to tell my kids where this was an that was

I did not go to a Dr during all these weird out thoughts as I didn't realize I was having them until my daughter had brought it to my attention by then the meds was out of my system an I guess I woke up but as i look back i really believe if i had continued taking Chantix I would not be here today

six months after I had my experience with Chantix they came out with the medical warning on it about if you think you have a mental illness do not take funny all the paperwork I have on it no where does it say this

I do not smoke to this day
but if you do take Chantix
make sure your Loved one's know that you are on it an that they watch over you


Good Luck

Cindy

an I still have 9 weeks of that damn pill tooo

 

[LaurieJim]

hubby jim quit after his illness, had gone for 73 days without smoking, we had some personal problems within the family and now he has started right back up again, he says it calms his nerves and helps with the headaches, he really needs to stop for his health if he wishes to continue to live, he has c.o.p.d along with a 10% heart function rate, i have tried all reasoning with him as well as others, your either have the will to quit or not, he does not and it worries me....................laurie

 

[same_old]

Well I went to the DR the other day and i'm now on those new tablet they have out called CHAMPIX.

I have been on them and can tell you they are working a treat so far, I have had the same packet of 30 smokes for the last five days and can not even get through a whole one so it's looking good, it goes for a few months so fingers crossed it will stop soon. you are allowed to smoke fore the first two weeks and then need to stop which I honestly dont think will be a problem if iam feeling this way, the smoking actually makes you feel sick and not want one which is great..

The ONLY side affect i've been having is some freaky deaky dreams, man o man are they freaky.. The second day I was on them I woke up in the middle of the night crying my eyes out for no particualr reason???, my girl woke up and saw me in the fetal postion in the corner crying like a girl... I can only put it down to the tablets as this is one of the major side effects, last ngiht I had another freaky dream that my girlfriend had a kind of watermelon head and I threw the car keys to her and it hit her in the head and it exploded WTf is up with that?? didnt cry on that one though..

I gotta give em up, my baby Ben is getting older and I want toget out there and play with him and want to be around after 50 so it is a must do...

 

[Luigi810]

Let me know how you make out, I have been trying to quit for the past month, I have to go for a emphsema test on the 20th and I am scared to death, I also have 2 nodules on my lungs which they found a month ago, they said they are benign but I have to get a cat scan in three months to see if they got bigger..I always said if ever had a problem I'd quit with no problem, but easier said than done, especially since I never get short of breath..please let me know if you quit with the Champix..
Good Luck to you

 

[LaurieJim]

Let me know how you make out, I have been trying to quit for the past month, I have to go for a emphsema test on the 20th and I am scared to death, I also have 2 nodules on my lungs which they found a month ago, they said they are benign but I have to get a cat scan in three months to see if they got bigger..I always said if ever had a problem I'd quit with no problem, but easier said than done, especially since I never get short of breath..please let me know if you quit with the Champix..
Good Luck to you

i will keep you in my prayers, smoking is such a hard habit to quit, some can do it cold turkey with no problems but most cant, im just glad they have new ways that help make it easier for those that do want to quit..................laurie

 

[mercy]

make sure your Loved one's know that you are on it an that they watch over you

You got that right. I was on Chantix for a month before the psychiatric symptoms started to appear. I would cry at the top of a hat, sleep till noon, and the icing on the cake, I started to cry at work for no reason lol, and of course my boss knocks on the door. I was never so humiliated.

Lucky for me, she knew I was on Chantix and very supportive. I called my sister who is a nurse and she told me stop taking it immediately.

I haven't started smoking again, I use nicorette lozenges now. It's better than smoking as nicotine isn't harmful, it's the 400 chemicals that you inhale when you smoke.

Good luck to all of you and especially Same old. It's the best gift that you can give yourself and your boy.

 

[jas2587]

Well I went to the DR the other day and i'm now on those new tablet they have out called CHAMPIX.

I have been on them and can tell you they are working a treat so far, I have had the same packet of 30 smokes for the last five days and can not even get through a whole one so it's looking good, it goes for a few months so fingers crossed it will stop soon. you are allowed to smoke fore the first two weeks and then need to stop which I honestly dont think will be a problem if iam feeling this way, the smoking actually makes you feel sick and not want one which is great..

The ONLY side affect i've been having is some freaky deaky dreams, man o man are they freaky.. The second day I was on them I woke up in the middle of the night crying my eyes out for no particualr reason???, my girl woke up and saw me in the fetal postion in the corner crying like a girl... I can only put it down to the tablets as this is one of the major side effects, last ngiht I had another freaky dream that my girlfriend had a kind of watermelon head and I threw the car keys to her and it hit her in the head and it exploded WTf is up with that?? didnt cry on that one though..

I gotta give em up, my baby Ben is getting older and I want toget out there and play with him and want to be around after 50 so it is a must do...

what you are taking is Chantix they just named it different cuase you are in Aussie land
just have your loved 1's watch you as they will notice any thing that is not in your normal personality an if they say this an this isnt right d believe them an stop taking that pill for the sake of that beautiful baby
wishing you all the luck
Cindy