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i have not totally quit but had pneumonia and doc advised that it needed to stop smoking and started taking chantix?sp. expensive as hell but less than the cost of 3 packs a day . i smoked 3 packs a day for a long time and now i might smoke 4-8 cigs a day maybe. it is hard to quit and this med makes cigs where u take one or two puffs and throw it away. i catch myself lighting up and standing there and throwing it away most of the time. i also had to get some nerve pills my 1st few weeks since i was like a crack head wanting one til med kicked in. best i have ever done on quitting and seems to make me want one less each day.

Put them down one New Years day and have not had one since. Of course I had "quit" 5 times prior to that!

Mudsucker, Cig. free since 1983!

I have heard good things about Chantix so far. I have 2 close friends who were able to quit snuff at almost the drop of a hat. I've thought about trying it soon. My only problem is I enjoy it to much which I'm sure will come to hurt me in the long run

Tedl10 wrote:I have heard good things about Chantix so far. I have 2 close friends who were able to quit snuff at almost the drop of a hat. I've thought about trying it soon. My only problem is I enjoy it to much which I'm sure will come to hurt me in the long run

no $#!+...

champcaller wrote:

Tedl10 wrote:I have heard good things about Chantix so far. I have 2 close friends who were able to quit snuff at almost the drop of a hat. I've thought about trying it soon. My only problem is I enjoy it to much which I'm sure will come to hurt me in the long run

no $#!+...

TJ we all have our vices, with Ted and I it is snuff, with you i hear its little boys. Which one is more detremental to society?

it aint happen durin duck season

Cheap Walmart patches. On 'em now. The first week (really, 3-5 days) is the roughest. I've quit before too for 3 months, but I was free of any cigarette craving. In a flash of genius, I figured I could try smoking one to remember what it was like.

If you're like me, you'll have to just get disgusted with cigs, and maybe even try half-hearted quitting a few times (only to succumb later in the day, or the next day). You'll eventually make up your mind to quit and when you do, you'll think of it in terms of "I used to smoke" or "I don't smoke anymore". It's real weird, but like I said, after the first week, you'll have thoughts of cigarettes, but they're less and less frequent.

I've also read, and my experience has confirmed, that a cigarette craving only lasts about 3-5 minutes. If you can get up and go walk around the block or something when you get an urge, it really will pass.

Good luck man, there is NO QUESTION you can do it, and its a lot easier than you'd think once you make up your mind to quit.

Cigars................... Shhhhh... I love Cigars....

They will be a passion not a habit... Just FINE cigars.... Not White Owls or any cheap paper cigars... Smoke one a week on Saturday night.. Other then that nicotine is a bitch to quit.... It is a fight each second of each day.... You have to hate them more then you need them... Keep the idea of cancer in you mind and a Iron lung that you could carry around...

Smoked three packs a day for . . . many years. Finally decided I wanted to become an ex-smoker. Put a patch on. That relieves the physical craving. The habits (hands, lighting, breathing that way you do when you smoke) were harder to break than the actual nicotine addiction. I used straws cut to the length of cigarettes, candy, gum, mints, anything.
Good luck

mallardhunter wrote:Smoked three packs a day for . . . many years. Finally decided I wanted to become an ex-smoker. Put a patch on. That relieves the physical craving. The habits (hands, lighting, breathing that way you do when you smoke) were harder to break than the actual nicotine addiction. I used straws cut to the length of cigarettes, candy, gum, mints, anything.
Good luck

Yeah, that is a weird thing. You'll find that you may have gone a long time without a cigarette and haven't even had a strong craving or thought of one for months, and you'll do something you haven't done since you quit and your mind will associate it with smoking, and you'll want a cigarette.

Here's something that may help, when you feel a craving coming on and you're tingling all over, think of it in terms of your body is filling up with health, like a slot machine paying out coins, or a trading account running up on a good market day.

A guy at the shop quit with chantix or what ever that drug is. I myself have still not perfected the art of putting down the snuff. I have quit 6 times already. Once for 3 months. but everytime it gets close to duck season opening I get sucked back in oh well I am going to try again after duck season.

I quit back in July and have relapsed only a time or two..basically just said I wasnt going to be a smoker any more

went from 1/2 pack to pack a day to less than two packs since I "quit"

as I said I have had my setbacks especially as the hunting season is upon us but the hardest part for me wasnt the addiction it was the habit of going to smoke and making sure I had cigs lighter etc

just change your mindset, good luck

the "still puffs one on occasion" doc

workin on a lil over 3 weeks without a smoke.. was smokin a pack a day then kept cutting back and when you dont smoke that first one of the day then u have quit.. ha ha bad thing is i started dipping...now i dip nearly a can a day..but hey i quit smokin

champcaller wrote:

Tedl10 wrote:I have heard good things about Chantix so far. I have 2 close friends who were able to quit snuff at almost the drop of a hat. I've thought about trying it soon. My only problem is I enjoy it to much which I'm sure will come to hurt me in the long run

no $#!+...

detto.