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Quitting Smoking

Jeepgod2002Jeepgod2002 Member Posts: 824 ✭✭✭✭
edited December 2007 in General Discussion
Well, I am finally going to do it. I have been limiting my computer time for now, as that is when I smoke the most, that, plus these 14 hr days I've been working. I set a goal, that when I reach the 4 week mark I will buy myself a new gun. I am using a patch plus a support group at work. There are 4 of us that are quitting together. Wish us luck



First ones in, Last ones out.
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  • Jeepgod2002Jeepgod2002 Member Posts: 824 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I decided it was time to quit smoking, I went to my doctor last week for an annual check up and discussed the smoking issue with him. He boasted about this new medication called "Chantix" which aids in quitting smoking and wrote me a prescription. The medication works by essentially preventing nicotene from attaching to the receptors in your brain; therefore, you do not get any sense of enjoyment from a cigarette. You take the medication for 7 days before you attempt to quit smoking. Today is day 8 for me, my first complete smoke free day in over a decade, and I must say, this medication is extraordinary and has made this transition very simple and painless.

    I have read many posts from folks in here about quitting smoking and just wanted to share my experience.
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  • collector14collector14 Member Posts: 97 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Good luck to you! Keep us posted on how it goes. I may want to try that stuff. I've been thinking about quitting lately.
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  • hisbigbootygirlhisbigbootygirl Member Posts: 1,856 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    i'm ALWAYS thinking about quiting. keep it up, ur an inspiration!
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  • Jeepgod2002Jeepgod2002 Member Posts: 824 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by hisbigbootygirl
    i'm ALWAYS thinking about quiting. keep it up, ur an inspiration!


    I ALWAYS have known that I would quit, it just wasnt gonna be that day, or the next day, and most likely the day after that. Fact is, I was horrified of the thought of ACTUALLY quitting. The folks at Pfizer that make this stuff also enroll you in a program called "GET QUIT", they either call you or email you every day through the process and give you activities to do. Its the real deal, they even give you a toll free number to call if you get a craving where you can talk to a "real" person.
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  • LOKO383LOKO383 Member Posts: 7,503 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ALL THREE OF YOU BETTER GET THE MONKEY OFF YOUR BACK.[xx(][V].did that sound harsh..sorry...good luck all..[;)]..here's hopin all of you can and do quit..nasty damn habit..yuck.[V]..Loko
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  • Sith LordSith Lord Member Posts: 480 ✭
    edited November -1
    GOOD LUCK-let us know how you make out[;)]
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  • Don McManusDon McManus Member Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    jeepgod:

    Good start. Now, forget about the drugs, forget about the cigs. Whatever you are feeling will go away in a day or two. I quit cold turkey on January 4th of this year after 33 years. You have made the commitment, the rest is easy.
    Freedom and a submissive populace cannot co-exist.

    Brad Steele
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  • ljwrenchljwrench Member Posts: 5,053
    edited November -1
    After my old man's heart attack last March his doc put him on Chantix and he hasn't had a cig since. He's been smoking for over 40 years and was always unsuccesful at quiting. It's worked so well for him that mom and grandpa both used it to quit.
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  • RockatanskyRockatansky Member Posts: 11,175
    edited November -1
    Good luck. Feels so much better in so many ways.
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  • BarkingDogBarkingDog Member Posts: 841 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    every person i know who has quit smoking for good used nothing more than will power. everyone i know who has tried to quit smoking though medication or all the other new techniques has failed. when YOU decide to quit you WILL quit. its called WILL POWER and its the strongest force in the world.
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yeah I did it that way, but I sure as hell would not discourage anyone from quitting any way they can.[:(!]

    Guys (and gals) you really can do it, I promise. If I can quit (It has been 18 months) believe me anyone can quit. Never quit quitting. Pay attention to the craving and you will realize it never, ever goes away while you are smoking. Even when you are actually having a smoke the craving never goes away, just quits sreaming so loudly. After 4 weeks of not smoking the craving went away. You can do it, you can do it, you CAN do it.
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  • ltslts Member Posts: 811 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Way to go! Be sure to hang tough!! October will be 12 years for me and yeah I'm bragging!!!! If I did it anyone including you can do it! Started smoking when 10 or 11 and quit at 38. Did a group hypnosis session for the hell of it and it worked.
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  • jabronij3jabronij3 Member Posts: 4,686
    edited November -1
    just as soon as I get this Thompson burned down about 2.5 more inches[:)]
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  • MercuryMercury Member Posts: 7,840 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Congrats, He Dog! Glad to hear you quit! Hang in there Jeepgod! Good luck, you can do it!

    Merc
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  • watrulookinatwatrulookinat Member Posts: 4,693
    edited November -1
    Good luck to ya.
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  • Henry0ReillyHenry0Reilly Member Posts: 10,892 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I quit in January and don't miss the morning hacking at all.

    Good luck.
    I used to recruit for the NRA until they sold us down the river (again!) in Heller v. DC. See my auctions (if any) under username henryreilly
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  • SwwboSwwbo Member Posts: 1,255 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Best of luck. I am using chantix too. I am working on my third week now. Chantix does help with the urge.
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  • blkshrtblkshrt Member Posts: 194 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    GOOD LUCK!!!!!
    I made it 6 months one time---Da*& that bar! LOL[:D]
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  • grdad45grdad45 Member Posts: 5,381 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I quit 12 years ago, cold turkey. I had smoked for about 30 years up to three packs a day. Use anything that will help you lose the addiction.
    Now, about this food addiction I acquired while quitting.[?]
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  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,085 ******
    edited November -1
    Chantix works.
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  • jwb267jwb267 Member Posts: 19,664 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    BEEN 25 YEARS FOR ME just QUIT
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  • Jeepgod2002Jeepgod2002 Member Posts: 824 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    well folks, 24 hours officially smoke free!!

    Today I threw away every cigarette, lighter, and ashtray I own.

    As long as I keep myself busy It's really no big deal. I've had cravings, but I just kind of "walk it off" by finding something to do real quick....like post on here. The Chantix, in my opinion, is remarkable.

    For you others that have used Chantix, did you get any of the side effects? so far I have not experienced any at all.

    Thanks everyone for the comments!!
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  • Jeepgod2002Jeepgod2002 Member Posts: 824 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    48 hours and still smoke free....today was easier than yesterday.
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  • Jeepgod2002Jeepgod2002 Member Posts: 824 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    and today is day 100 of no smoking.

    for you folks that want to quit, try chantix...im proof it works.
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  • Flyin_PaulieFlyin_Paulie Member Posts: 857 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Jeepgod2002
    and today is day 100 of no smoking.

    for you folks that want to quit, try chantix...im proof it works.

    Is Chantix prescription or OTC? Good for you. I want to ditch the cigs.
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  • Sav99Sav99 Member Posts: 16,037 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Good job jeep2002. Keep it up and you'll beat it! [:D]
    I really need to quit too. Smoking sucks. [V]
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  • Jeepgod2002Jeepgod2002 Member Posts: 824 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Flyin_Paulie
    quote:Originally posted by Jeepgod2002
    and today is day 100 of no smoking.

    for you folks that want to quit, try chantix...im proof it works.

    Is Chantix prescription or OTC? Good for you. I want to ditch the cigs.


    It is prescription.
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  • v35v35 Member Posts: 12,710 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I quit out of fear, not will power. The desire to quit was there for years. Each pack was going to be the last.
    I got pains in the right shoulder blade when I smoked heavily.
    That was when they were $.33-.34 a pack.
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  • mijelomijelo Member Posts: 1,623 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Quit April 1 1997 after 49 yr's
    of up to 4 pk's a day.
    My best buddy of 60 yr's just
    died of lung cancer 12/02/2007
    cause he wouldn't/couldn't quit.
    SO QUIT_QUIT_QUIT_QUIT NOW!
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  • LKB3rdLKB3rd Member Posts: 292 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    There is some question of this drug's safety. I would definitely do your own research, specifically about possible side effects and investigate other methods before doing it.
    Personally i'd never take it.
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  • jonkjonk Member Posts: 10,121
    edited November -1
    I normally smoke about 3 cigs a day. One when I wake up, one after lunch, one after dinner. Still not healthy, probably not as bad as 3 packs a day, but something that is starting to bug me. I noticed that even at that low number, I miss it when I don't have one for a few days.

    I'm planning on quitting altogether myself, and am in the middle of it(I have a nice jump on it- I've been on the road a lot the last few days and haven't had any now in a week) as kind of a pre-new year's resolution.

    I'll still smoke the occasional cigar every few months.
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  • gruntledgruntled Member Posts: 8,218 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I smoked my last cigarette when I got out of the Army & had to pay twenty cents a pack instead of the ten cents I had been paying in the PX. I switched to cigars & smoked them for around thirty years until the price soared.
    I used to be able to get Churchill rejects for a quarter, cut them in half & the two halves would do me for the day. I haven't had a cigar for quite a while but if someone gives me a half decent one I will smoke it. After I started with cigars I could never understand why anyone would smoke a cigarette.
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  • cce1302cce1302 Member Posts: 9,555 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm still trying to quit second hand smoking. I've never been a smoker, but second hand smoking has to be the hardest habit to quit.
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  • bhale187bhale187 Member Posts: 7,798
    edited November -1
    CONGRATS!! It's a tough habit to brake even after the addiction is gone.

    I have two friends that quit using Chantix, and they both said they had very intense, and very strange dreams or nightmares while on it.

    My wife and I quit cold turkey almost 3 years when she found out she was pregenant. She started back up shortly after our daughter was born, which really pisses me off. I was till finding myself reaching for a smoke and thinking of smoking after 6 months or more.
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  • rollnblockrollnblock Member Posts: 384 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Be carefull using the chantix. I have had a heart attack before and started using it. within three days the heart was having problems. so stoped using it. but I will say the withdrawl simptoms wernt there.
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  • davealddaveald Member Posts: 2,078 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I started smoking when I was 5 ro 6, (true). i quit when i was about 30 smoked about 2 packs a day, quit cold turkey, wish I could do that with the morphine and oxycotin I've been taken for the last 5 years for pain. I would almost like the pain more then the meds. getting old sucks, I guess I had more will power back in the old days.
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  • Jeepgod2002Jeepgod2002 Member Posts: 824 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm no longer on the chantix. I took it for a complete cycle and side effects were minimal. I did however have very bizarre and vivid dreams (the most common side effect) and I do mean bizarre.

    All in all, Im smoke free and truly believe that the medicine made it possible...I'd rather have a few bad dreams for a couple months than to continue smoking for the rest of my life.
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  • joeaf1911a1joeaf1911a1 Member Posts: 2,962 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Like I posted in another column here, now in my 80's I quit smoking
    (after over 65 years of smoking) with no help and no problems "so far,
    but its only been about 5 weeks". Nope. Havent had a puff. But damn if I will celibrate by "lighting just one up" for a holiday after listening to fishermanben's post.
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  • oldgunneroldgunner Member Posts: 2,466 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If anyone needs motivation, read my response here:
    http://forums.gunbroker.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=276263
    And I'll add a bit to it.

    I have two brothers not mentioned before. One of them has never used tobacco, and has no problems. The other carries an inhaler in his pocket and breathes from it about once per hour. Between whiffs of that, he smokes three or four cigarettes..
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  • beneteaubeneteau Member Posts: 8,552 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm trying to quit. 63yo and been smoking since I was about 12. Tried Chantix
    had dizzy spells and blacked out once while sitting (driver) at a red light. Taking Wellbutrin. Wished I could have continued with Chantix.
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