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I'm probably not the best candidate to join this group...
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Posted over 5 years ago ...I'm a smoker! I tried unsuccessfully to quit in January, the most recent of several unsuccessful attempts. It just doesn't seem to matter how many friends, family, health care professionals, or even that little voice in my head that says, "you smell and you're ruining your lungs!" to change my habits. I'm hoping this group will help give me some good advice on quitting. When I start nursing, I don't want to be a hypocrite :) |
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| Posted over 5 years ago Good luck. Have you tried Chantix yet? |
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| Posted over 5 years ago Marg, quitting sometimes means changing your daily routines that triggers your cravings for a "smoke." That means that if you have a cup of coffee with your morning smoke, you drink orange juice and have a piece of toast, I you use your right hand to hold your cig, then use your left hand. Sometimes changes in routines helps bridge the gap between habitual routine and “choice”, and once you get to the choice stage; it's easier to make a conscious choice not to smoke. |
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| Posted over 5 years ago al_chamizo said: This is so true. Our habits and rituals run so deep...to me is almost seems like muscle memory. I to would suggest using the opposite hand to trick your brain a bit. Good luck, it is difficult at first, but I know you can do it! |
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| Posted over 5 years ago I have three words for you: JUST DO IT. I quit smoking almost 6 years ago after many attempts. I smoked since I was in highschool and I never should have started, it was hard to quit. My husband also smoked but he quit one year before me. He was my moral support. To be honest, I didn't know if I was going to pick up a cig and light up as each day passed. The first week was tough and then another week passed and then another - you get the picture. Before I knew it, a month had passed and I never had a cigarette. Here I am, years later - I don't even crave a cigarette anymore. Besides, it is an expensive and unhealthy habit. You have to really want to do it though. Good luck. |
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| Posted over 5 years ago The world health organisation did a study on the effects of stop smoking programmes, but on a world scale. They found that all these programmes, had a net effect of zero on cutting back overall numbers. What they did find was the only effect was due to government measures eg Banning smoking in workplace, public places, including bars to name a few. You are just going to have go cold turkey and tough it out. |
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| Posted over 5 years ago I used Chantix to quit smoking....i have been trying to quit for over 3 years now........My best advice is to keep trying until it takes...The first time i tried wellbutrin(SP)...the second time i attempted using the patch.......The patch made me jumpy and i had nightmares...the next time i tried cold turkey......For me the only one that worked was Chantix....It blocks the nicotine receptors in your brain so that I didnt have the physical urge to hurt someone if it i didnt get a ciggerate.......All that was left to deal with was the psychological addiction........I did change my habits. I still think about smoking when I am stressed but i am doing so well this time and that is added incentive to stay a nonsmoker......Welcome to the group......Keep trying |
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| Posted over 5 years ago michellegtcc said: Chantix is working still for my friend Jennifer~I am so proud of her. She reports that her craving is pretty much non exsistant! Woo~Hoo! (I believe this is week 3 for her) Bobbi |
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| Posted over 5 years ago BJ WTG for your friend....just encourage her to keep it up |
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| Posted over 5 years ago HI, I haven't been to this site for a while, busy like everyone I m sure. Well thanks Bobbie for inviting me. I just right now took the first Chantix tab. After having pneumonia last fall ( I never get sick), I had ordered chantix. It was sitting on my kitchen counter, about Christmas time I put it in the bathroom closet..it (the boxes) were getting in the way..hee hee (what an oxymoraon sp?). So after reading your chats, I took one. I just do not like taking pills, but OK to suck a bunch of chem. into my lungs? We went snowmachining to a great cabin and hot springs last week, I was so out of breath during the ride and walking to the hot springs, I tried to hide it like stopping to adjust something and that is just crazy..I am otherwise healthy and enjoy out doors a lot. Dying is no big deal to me, we all do it, I have been lucky a few times. But being hooked to O2 or unable to do things I enjoy, well that may be preventable. I just love smoking, but I decided I love my independence more. To others that are quitting, come here form time to time, I will. thanks..kat |
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| Posted over 5 years ago Yeah, I've tried the Commit lozenges (ew, gross, those things are way too disgusting to work!) and would like to try Chiantix, but can't afford the 300$/bottle prescription :(
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| Posted over 5 years ago kat88 said: I am SOOOOO proud of you! A great story that hopefully will serve as an inspiration to others. Thank you for sharing. It is difficult for some to admit the not so glamerous perks to smoking. Before I quit I was just over 32 years of age and got winded walking a short flight of steps. I often thought to myself, what would happen if I had to pack my kid down the beach to a waiting boat because he is injured. Could I do it? Probably not when I was in that sort of comprised situation. My girlfirned Jen has been on Chantix for I believe 3 weeks~she is doing well. The one thing that I have noticed the few times I am around her (since being on Chantix) is that she does not talk about smoking or missing it, or anything that would indicate that she was a smoker. She is getting more exercise and her face (pretty girl already) has cleared up...to me she glows! Her mother died of lung cancer last April. I am so proud to know that she is making a huge committment to not smoke and to be around to raise her boys. |
