Thats it I have to quit smoking (1 Viewer)

[Steve_Pannell]

I agree completely. (I emphasized the "for yourself" because even though quitting will definitely be good for your family, you have to really want to do it yourself if it's going to stick.)

I quit about 16 years ago. I was smoking 3 packs a day and decided I had had enough. I used the nicotine patches and just took it one day at a time. It was tough but worth it.

Good luck.

 

[JonZ]

Some people have very bad reactions to Chantix, others have no problems at all using it. I know 2 people who quit using it.

I quit using Nicoderm. There must be a emotion chip in that patch or something because I had the worst week at work I can remember and wasnt tempted to smoke at all.

Good luck.

 

[Jeff Gatie]

I know a couple people who got seriously depressed. I got a little bit of that, not really depression but there was a definite loss of enjoyment for things that I enjoy (good food, movies, sports, etc). Kind of like a permanent cloud on a sunny day type thing. I was pretty glad to stop the Chantix, but the help it gave was worth it.

As to the wacky dreams, I only experienced that a few times in the first days after quitting. For three days straight I dreamed about women with strawberry plants tattooed on their bodies. I'm not very partial to tattooed women or strawberries, so I have no idea where the hell that came from.

 

[KurtEP]

I quit cold turkey about 10 years ago. I was fortunate in that my body was telling me in no uncertain terms that I shouldn't smoke (I developed a nasty morning smoker's hack). Quitting cold turkey sucked, but it did have its advantages. First, it was free. Also, it told me a lot about myself, specifically, I was the master of my mind and body, not the other way around. Sometimes that can be a useful thing to know first hand.

However you go about it, good luck. It's an important step.

 

[Mike Frezon]

I think that's a topic that needs its own thread!

 

[Jeff Gatie]

I wish. But for full clarification, the dreams were quite benign in nature. Just some weird psychedelic stuff. If anything more was coming, I'm afraid I woke up before it happened.

 

[Mike Frezon]

 

[Jeff Gatie]

The smoker's hack is what did it for me. 25 years, sometimes up to 2 packs a day, and I never had a cough. Not even a tickle. Sometime last year it appeared, and it didn't take long for me to want to finally quit. Luckily I was down to less than a pack a day at the end,

 

[troy evans]

Are you sure it was tobacco you were smoking.

 

[Jeff Gatie]

Never had any use for anything else, at least in the last 20 years or so. But one of the main side-effects listed for Chantix are changes in dream pattern and intensity. I have a friend who's dad had really freaky dreams for the whole time he was on it. Then again, knowing him, he was probably more succeptible for just the reason you posted.

 

[Holadem]

Isn't it always like that? Or is it just me? I always wake up before the good stuff. .

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H

 

[Jeff Gatie]

Yeah, me too. I guess as we got older we switched from "Damn!! I can't believe this is really happening!!" to "Damn, I know this isn't really happening." and thus the spell is broken. :frowning:

 

[Cees Alons]

Indeed. We never did it sleeping either.


Cees

 

[Julian Reville]

I quit smoking (for the 3rd time) 13 months ago. At the time I had smoked a pack a day for 15 years, so I had some addiction to nicotine. I used Nicorette gum for 3 months, then transitioned to regular chewing gum.

I did have some weight gain, mostly due to nightime snacking. That's still a problem, but it's cheaper than smoking these days.

 

[JonZ]

I would definitely suggest exercise if youre trying to quit to help with that.

Last time I quit I also busted my ass in the gym and ended up loosing about 15 pounds.

 

[Mike Frezon]

New York has also, this year, increased its tax on cigarettes, too. The new rates took effect last month.

NY's tax is touted as the highest in the nation--a not-uncommon phenomena in NYS.

The state of NY adds $2.75 to a pack of cigarettes while NYC adds another $1.50. I'm no smoker...but I believe it costs $7 to $8 bucks for a pack where I live upstate and near $10 a pack in NYC.

 

[Radioman970]

I started smoking in the mid70s....as a child of about 11 or 12, butts we'd find on the side of the road. Man, those were the days. It was fun to smoke. I have video of me smoking in the late 80s and can remember those days. Hell, everybody smoked!

When I first started doing morning radio in the early 90s I'd chain smoke for 3 and a half hours...while drinking what I'd call "coffee bombs" (strong, with enormous amounts of cream and sugar). The guy that cleaned up the studio was wiping the windows one morning in 92 (I believe) while I was doing my show. He showed me his rag and said, "look at that..." It was brown. I said "is that my smoke?" He nodded. I said "..and my lungs look like that?" He nodded again. I slowed way down on smoking after that. Then I got a soar throat one day and it really hurt to smoke. I quit cold turkey that day. I kept the last pack I ever bought (cheapass crap...might as well be weeds) in a bowl and told myself if I was going to restart I'd have to smoking those nasty stale ones. That works pretty well. Just don't buy any. Luckily, everybody in my immediate family has quit smoking.

Best thing about this is how much better everything smells and food tastes better too. Plus I stopped many many years ago with the horrible feeling I'd get waking up in the morning. Blah! Now, the weight problem come up after this and can be just as bad on your health.

Anyway, good luck to everybody who is trying to quit. Just remember, you have to really want to quit. It took my brother-in-law's dad dying of lung cancer to stop his son from smoking. :frowning:

 

[Mark Sherman]

the chantix is Just awesome. A spend alot of my work day driving to job sites and in that time I would chain smoke the whole way there. Yesterday I drove to a Job site* and only smoked 2 butts the whole day. Today I was in the shop Building frames and had only 2 in an 8 hour day. Last week I would have had almost 3/4 of a pack.

CHATIX ROCKS.

 

[Mort Corey]

I wonder what will be the next target of the state(s) once the tobacco taxes cease to roll into the general fund? No state will ever deem it necessary to cut any type of program that those taxes support. I'm guessing beer.....or some/all type of demon rum.

Mort

 

[LDfan]

Being that my wife is in fairly poor health I've spent many a day and nights sitting in ER rooms. Since most of the rooms/bays are designed for 2 patients there is just a curtain separating one patient from another. I've sat there one night and heard the doctor come into the next bay and give the patient results of having terminal lung cancer.

That has to be a bombshell on a person.


Jeff