Any cigarette smokers out there?

[dh]

I might have to try it. Thanks for sharing your experiance.

Chantix will be a three month process for me. The script calls for two pills a day, but after about three weeks, I take only one in the morning, so I will get about three and a half months out of my two one month boxes. Doc said that was ok as long as it was working for me.

I haven't started gaining weight yet, but am intentionally trying to be more active, and I'm pounding down water like I enjoy it.

[parnold]

I might have to try it. Thanks for sharing your experiance

Whatever method you try, I encourage you to at least try. I have "quit" smoking about 8 times now, the longest for over a year. It is a stupid, expensive, and damaging habbit. I hope I make it this time!

[Jiminsav]

I love to take any oppertunity to share the good news about vaping (e-cigs). I was a heavy smoker for several years, but for the last 15 months I have been using electronic cigarettes. I would love to share my experiences and opinions with anyone interested in quitting those nasty ol' things.

**I do not sell e-cigs or stand to gain anything from the sale of them.** Just the satisfaction possibly saving someones life the way someone was kind enough to help me save my own.

I'm a wealth of information on the subject, and it would be my honor to give back to this forum. I know I'm going to have a lot of seemingly newbie questions about teardrops in the upcoming months, and I would like to share any knowledge I have on other areas in exchange!

OK, but what you gonna do to quit the e-cigs?...suck on some Ram chips?

[Zollinger]

Quit about three and 1/2 years ago. Cold turkey. I can NEVER go back to smoking because of all the crap that I give to the smokers I know. It's amazing how good food tastes, and how well I can smell now!

[Larwyn]

I smoked cigarettes for over 40 years.

I made a couple of half hearted attempts to quit.

I tried substituting a pipe for cigarettes and quickly learned that I could still smoke just as many cigarettes in addition to smoking the pipe, so I gave up the pipe.

I tried chewing tobacco but that just didn't work for me at all, so I gave up chewing tobacco.

I once tried the patch and seemed to be making some progress for a little while but soon found that I could smoke just as many cigarettes as ever, even while wearing the patch, so I gave up the patch.

Eventually I gave up quitting smoking.

When I had my heart attack the doctor and everyone else at the hospital insisted that I would have to quit smoking. I was not allowed to smoke in my room (Intensive Care no less) and was not allowed to leave the room to smoke, I really wanted a cigarette and I told them that I understood what they were saying and why but did not think that quitting smoking was likely for me.

Not having a cigarette for 3 days while I was in the hospital seemed tougher than getting the two stints. All my cigarettes were in the company truck and it was still at my office because I had been transported to the hospital from there. When my wife picked me up the first stop was the drug store to fill all my new prescriptions, I also got a box of Marlboro. Told my wife that I would only smoke 2 or 3 a day. I think I actually smoked about 5 the first day, twice that many the next and had to send my wife to the store for more cigarettes on the 3rd day. When I woke up the next morning I only had about half of that second pack left. I made it last until late that night. When I finished that last cigarette, I snuffed it out really well, threw the ash tray in the trash can and announced to my wife that I had just had my last cigarette.

There were 6 boxes of Marlboro left in the carton under the seat of the company truck. I hauled those 120 cigarettes around for several months, fully expecting to need them when I found it impossible to give them up for good. After a few months I finally gave them away and for the first time in many years I was out of cigarettes and not on my way to the store for more.

Patches and other "methods" of quitting never worked for me. What did work was telling my wife that I was done with smoking. Call it honor, pride, or country bumpkin ways, whatever, it's a matter of not going back on my word which has enabled me not to have so much as a single drag off of a cigarette in about 5 years now. Not to shabby and quitting didn't cost me a cent.

[Senior Ninja]

I did "cold turkey' on both alcohol and smoking.
I didn't like who I was when I was drinking.
That was thirty five years ago. I have no craving
even if people are drinking in my presence I have
no urge. I don't make a big deal of it. If asked I
usually say something like,"I was young and foolish.
I drank my lifetime allotment in a few years."
A doctor taking a health history had only three
words for me when I told him I had quit thirty five
years ago, "Saved your life."
Steve

[Prem]

Pablo Picasso quit smoking in his 60s and lived to be over 90. He also ate the Mediterranean diet.

[Py0tr]

I smoked before i met my first wife. She didn't so I stopped.... for a while... After the divorce I started again and bought a yacht and a jeep

It was when a cardiologist told me that I wouldn't make 40 that I finally saw sense and stopped. I folowed the advice of a behavioural psychologist and used proximity therapy (I think that's what it is called). Choose a place hwre you have never smoked and then when the urge gets strong go there. I moved house and for a few months didn't visit the footpath outside our office and finally stopped. I've had a few smokes since, the last one tasted so foul I no longer want a smoke, Its great!

Cold turkey was the only way for me. Patches made the urge far worse.

[kinto]

burning one as i read the replies... *and* i'm somewhat drunk.

you only live once mofos!

[dh]

We brought up Chantix a while back in this thread. I saw a story on the news, there are talks that the FDA may pull it off the market. It has been linked to several murder cases. It makes some people just 'loose it'. There are arguments that the murdurers already had a mental illness, or behaviorial changes are inline with nicatine withdrawl. Just figured I'd share it with ya'll.