Yeah, self determination, really wanting to, I know. Truth is I really want to but end up "changing my mind". I've tried patches, they give me hives. The gum burns my tongue. Lazor didn't work for me either. Neither did "cold turkey" I have seen all the photo's, read all the stats, ect. Not enough. I am not against meds, but I don't know anyone who has used them, so I am unsure if that would really work. Please help! All serious suggestions would be appreciated!
2007-12-21 05:19:24 · 9 answers · asked by dogwhisperer16 3 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
I smoked for 36 years. And everything I tried failed until I tried Chantix. I have had no side effects and it really works. Good Luck.
2007-12-21 05:23:20 · answer #1 · answered by GrandmaK 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Some of the listed side effects for those meds just put me right off that idea.
This is what my hubby and I did to quit. Both of us decided that smoking outside would make us aware of how much and when we smoked, making the effort to not be "comfortable" helped us cut down. Face it 30 degrees on the porch is freezing so we were less likely to "want" to go out there.
We stopped smoking in our vehicles as well, this one was really hard for my hubby as he drives daily an hour to an hour and a half to and from work. Nothing to do but light up and hit the break pedal. He managed by chewing regular gum and concentrated on singing to his CD's to help pass that "craving" period.
As we soon discovered, headaches were temporary and after the first initial week, we didn't seem to have them anymore.
Slow yeah maybe, but we didn't start out smoking a pack a day, we just made a slower move back to being non smokers the same way.
Support groups, medications, gum, patches, "cold turkey" all or none of them work, it really does depend on how you quit as much as it does what you use to quit.
It took us about 2 months of cutting back, making it different then using the above methods, by the time we were at the 8 week mark we were down to 2 each a day, and then it was 0. Neither of us experienced any relaps and its now been about 2 years.
Wishing you the best of luck!
2007-12-21 05:35:47 · answer #2 · answered by aylatroy 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Instead of "taking" something to quit, here's what I did.
I switched to Carlton Box for a few weeks before I quit. It was like sucking socks. It broke that "pleasure" response that I had to cigarettes.
Then, I bought a box of Carlton Box and put it in the pantry. I basically quit cold turkey but there was that box in the pantry if I "needed" it. That way I didn't panic that there weren't any cigarettes in the house. I just challenged myself not to smoke. At first it was minute to minute. Then hour to hour, day to day, and eventually I just stopped having the urge to smoke. Every now and then I get the urge, but once I see how expensive cigarettes are these days it is pretty easy to squash the impulse to start up again. Mostly, the smell of stale cigarette smoke gags me now.
Good luck!
2007-12-21 05:29:41 · answer #3 · answered by K. F 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I quit after puffing for thirty years by using the product now out on the market called Chantix in the USA and Champix in Canada.
For me the side effects were huge, incredible dreaming, nausea (which I held at bay by taking long acting gravol), insomnia, and gas loads of intestinal gas, now my husband did not have the side effects as badly as I did, he only got the insomnia and gas parts.
I only took the product for three weeks, and had to stop due to the side effects, but that was enough time for me to break that ciggie habit and here I am 187 days later still smoke free.
Yes you need to change habits and use will power but, I will say that this medication really does what it says. You smoke that ciggie and nothing I repeat nothing happens lol it really is the oddest thing.
Good luck to you, I gave myself this for my 50th birthday present
2007-12-21 05:32:07 · answer #4 · answered by wistaweee 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I like the nicotine lozenges. Commit, or CVS and Walgreens make generic brands.
They can burn a bit when you first start using them, but you get used to it. It's worth putting up with a little discomfort in the beginning.
Lozenges are good because you can pop something in your mouth when you are having a craving. They do give you a little nicotine rush too. Try holding them against your cheek -- don't just suck on them.
The worked for me. Stopped smoking a year ago.
2007-12-21 05:26:01 · answer #5 · answered by christnp 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's not going to work cold turkey, of course....Just next time you start to smoke just think about it for a second, and don't take another puff....Try to exspandthe time periods between each cigerette, and reward yourself for not choosing the cigerette....I tried for a day, then two days then a week then a month, kind like that, not really, kinda though.
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2007-12-21 05:50:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I had two friends I used to work with who went for hypnosis. It worked for them. During the remaining 4 years that I worked with them, they never smoked again.
2007-12-21 05:28:08 · answer #9 · answered by 2007_Shelby_GT500 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it's hard i know. i'm taking rx welbruton it helps take away the physical withdrawal part. then you have to contend with the what to do instead of smoking at trigger points signals.
2007-12-21 05:32:18 · answer #10 · answered by uzingmybrain 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋