Need to quit Smoking, Need some help!

[trover]

We've never had any success with the patch. I quit for two years using Wellbutrin, and my wife did with Chantrix. I talked to my doctor about it, and he said the patch has only a 7% success rate, because you're still getting nicotine. With Wellbutrin or Chantrix (think that's the name), you smoke for a month and take the pills and then you don't want to smoke anymore. We found it very easy to quit that way. And we'd both been smokers for forty years.

 

[GatorFarmer]

Just keep smoking if you enjoy it. The odds are something like 1/3 that you'll die of complications from smoking. I'll take those odds.

If you insist on quitting, simply get yourself some 3/4 Zware Shag Javanese rolling tobacco from Holland. That stuff should cure you of a desire to smoke.

 

[Lenshappy]

STOP SMOKING!

 

[2fingers]

All the advice here will not help you one bit if you don't really want to quit. You must WANT TO quit and then just do it,I was a smoker and had tried many times before, came out of the Dr office with a case of brohncitits ad lit up a KOOL, choked and gaged, and QUIT 8 years ago. Nothing is more important than getting off the cigerettes now. If you want to smoke find something else to do or think about how nasty they are instead.Don't know how much money I have saved, but I do feel better. GOOD LUCK!

 

[EvelMe]

I started smoking at 14, 1-2 packs a day (I know, light weight). When I was 34, I had a massive stroke. Took 4 months to learn to recite the alphabet and count to 20 again, 6 months to learn to walk and talk again. Lived in the hospital for 6 months.

Eight months after my stroke, I was living in Dallas, renting a room as I attended a program at a Community College for survivors of head injuries. The lady I rented my room from smoked, and one day I took one of her 120mm ultra lights.

I got high off of it and started taking one or two of her's everyday, within 3-4 days, I was back on Marlboro reds again, pack or pack and a half a day . After smoking again for 5 more years, I was noting that I was getting VERY light-headed with every couple smokes.

I had a few very scary TIA's (mini stroke events) where I got so dizzy I could barely stand up, one as I was driving. I got a self hypnosis tape, listened to it one night and decided I could stop. I did.

 

[Seaforth]

Now for my birthday I want to give myself a gift "That keeps on giving" I want to QUIT SMOKING and I think I may need some help.

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PLEASE QUIT!!!! Want some help? Why don't you come with me every Tuesday for the next 8 weeks and watch the Chemo(Once a week) and Radiation(Five days a week) treatments, that according to stats have a 60% chance of working. It's my reward for smoking for 25 years. I quit smoking some 24 years ago, but the Big "C" has a long memory. PLEASE QUIT.... !!!!!

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

These helped me from starting smoking:
Normal healthy city dweller lung:

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Long term smoker's cancerous lung

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The good news is if you have not gone too far already, your lungs heal and get better - won't it be nice to have something that actually works better as the years go by?

 

[Guest]

Both my Parents smoked for 40 to 50 Years. My Dad's smoking killed him 15 Years after he stopped 'Cold Turkey'. The Tar and Nicotine had collected in his Colon and turned it into what looked like 'lace'.

Personally, I smoked for the year that I was "In Country" but only because the Unit I was with had a written Policy that if you didn't smoke you didn't get to take smoke breaks!!! I was on "terminal leave" for two weeks before I mustered out and when I went out to clear up my paperwork I found the pack of smokes I had had in my pocket of my Greens when I came home two weeks earlier. I guess moving back into a household of smokers broke me of the habit real quickly.

 

[gruntsrus]

Here's a method that worked for me, but it involves some psychology so bear with me;

a. You are not healthy if you still smoke and you have to realize this fast.

b. Find another quitter and talk about it everyday for the first 3 weeks; talk about all the positives.

c. All the positives are; more money in your pocket, house/clothes/you no longer stink, you'll sleep better, sex is better...

d. You will probably live longer. I say probably because who really knows, but that' snot really where it's at;You'll be living BETTER!?

e. Chew a gum you like in the first 3 weeks.
Happy B-Day and good luck.

 

[vrichard]

If you really want to quite it not that hard.