Are you a smoker.....????

[GPURS]

Yep, Chantix will do the trick for ya, if you are really ready to quit. If you are not ready to quit, nothing will help ya...
I smoked for 25 years and knew that I had to quit at age 40, as that was my self determined point of no return .. Followed the directions for Chantix and by day 7 I had smoked my last cigarette. The program(pills) is supposed to go for 3 months($125 month if not using insurance), but I stopped the Chantix after the end of the second month. I had none of the potential bad side effects of Chantix, rather I had some pretty good side effects.
I thought it was funny that some guy earlier said that he lost his job so he quit taking Chantix,,,,but kept smoking .. If you smoke a pack a day, you will spend more per month on cigs than on Chantix..
I quit on March 5 2008 and have saved approx. $3000-$3500! And have not had the urge to have a smoke since.
Good luck to you, and keep us posted.. Gpurs.

 

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[packerbacker]

I didn't use all of my prescription either. I figure, at $6.50 per day which is about what I was spending, I've saved well over $7,000!! If I were still smoking, it would cost even more per day as the prices keep going up.

 

[Excavator]

I was smoking a payment on a new car every month. (counting the wifey's share)

I first tried smoking in the 2nd or 3rd grade, when I got butts out of Dad's ashtray.

Started buying my own around 12, I could go to the store with a carton of empty pop bottles and walk out with cigs. In high school, we had a legal smoking section outside one of the buildings, for between classes and lunch period.

I always got the big whiff of the sweet smell when Dad lit up in the car, and I still notice it when someone lights up. It's probably something they put in the tip of the cigs, they do use a lot of sweet food items like sugars, vanilla, cocoa, and a lot more. The rest of the cigarette doesn't smell that nice, does it?

Saw an article in Reader's Digest that said there's a period, after about 12 days, that you start to get over the addiction. If you smoke one cigarette, you start at the beginning. The article went on to list all the things in your body that begin to repair at different intervals after quitting.

 

[packerbacker]

Here's the list ex.
I think one of the main reasons it’s so hard to quit smoking is because all the benefits of quitting and all the dangers of continuing seem very far away. Well, here’s a little timeline about some of the more immediate effects of quitting smoking and how that will affect your body RIGHT NOW.

In 20 minutes your blood pressure will drop back down to normal.
In 8 hours the carbon monoxide (a toxic gas) levels in your blood stream will drop by half, and oxygen levels will return to normal.
In 48 hours your chance of having a heart attack will have decreased. All nicotine will have left your body. Your sense of taste and smell will return to a normal level.
In 72 hours your bronchial tubes will relax, and your energy levels will increase.
In 2 weeks your circulation will increase, and it will continue to improve for the next 10 weeks.
In three to nine months coughs, wheezing and breathing problems will dissipate as your lung capacity improves by 10%.
In 1 year your risk of having a heart attack will have dropped by half.
In 5 years your risk of having a stroke returns to that of a non-smoker.
In 10 years your risk of lung cancer will have returned to that of a non-smoker.
In 15 years your risk of heart attack will have returned to that of a non-smoker.
So, you have more immediate things to look forward to if you quit now besides just freaking out about not being able to smoke. Quit now!

 

[discovery_bound]

Thanks for all the replies folks, some good information and heartfelt stories to abide by. The more I read, the more I can't believe I ever started in the first place. Day one of going cold turkey and feel pretty good. The last few times I've tried it seems days 3 and 4 are the worst for me...so we'll see how it goes. I'm now thinking of all the money I can be spending on MD'ing instead of smoking....

HH
DB

 

[aa battery]

sum remember i could not walk 30 ft without stopping. I went to a funeral standing most of the day and the next morning my leg hurt so bad i passed out. Make a long story short, cuz of smoking the arteries in my legs were plugged. I had a double by-pass with problems but now i am glad to say i can walk farther. Every time i suggest to someone to stop smoking i lift up my shirt. The scar aint pretty.

 

[bigwater]

The FSC stuff is what caused me to quit. It was making me deathly ill. I quit by going to a hypnotist, and that really works good. I started smoking again a few months later, but I smoke for different reasons now. I realized that I actually enjoy a cigarette sitting on the porch during a sunset, or standing around a campfire with friends. I also no longer have the feeling that I need to keep one lit 24 hours a day. My addiction was broken with the hypnotism, yet my enjoyment of them remains.

I started stuffing my own tubes with pure Virginia gold tobacco... the finest tasting stuff you could smoke in a cigarette, and smoke maybe 10 a week now as opposed to 2 packs per day I was smoking before I "quit". Smoking doesn't have to control you, and yes there's no doubt that it's not good for you, but I do things everyday that are a lot worse than having one or two cigarettes a day. I worry a lot more about breathing the fumes from my wide format solvent printer than I do about smoking a cigarette.

I'm not convinced that tobacco "causes" cancer or even heart disease. I am convinced that if you're already genetically prone to those diseases that smoking will help it kick in. Everybody in my family for as far back as I know had smoked except for my mother, and some of those old bastages lived a lot longer than I ever even want to live. Nobody in my family ever got cancer, or had a heart attack from smoking. I've also attended funerals of past friends who dropped dead from lung cancer and heart attacks who never smoked in their life.

If you want to enjoy a smoke occasionally, buy yourself a sack of Windsail Platinum tobacco, a stuffer, and a box of Zig-Zag filter tubes. Stuff one when the mood strikes you, and enjoy it. A 14 oz bag of the tobacco costs $21, and you'll get around 500 cigarettes out of it, making each one around 5 cents each when you factor in the penny for the tube. At the rate I smoke now, a bag will last me a year. A far cry from the 2 cartons per week at $35/carton I was smoking before I "quit".

 

[discovery_bound]

Well, I failed on the cold turkey method again and after the 3rd day I broke down and restarted smoking. I had an annual VA appt last tuesday and found out they would pay for my Chantix. Well hot damn, I'll take that deal! Got home from work today and there it was waiting for me in the mailbox. Now, it really begins......here we go. Thanks to all for the sharing and support.

HH
DB

 

[GPURS]

DB, get on that Chantix! Cold turkey is for turkeys. Follow the directions for proper use of Chantix and your new life will begin. That drug fills the receptors in your brain that are constantly craving nicotine. After 25 years of smoking and two months of Chantix, I have never looked back. It has been 2 years 21 days since I quit(not that I'm keeping track of it or anything ) and I don't think I have craved a cigarette since I quit.. Good luck to you, Gpurs...

 

[wayne_sa]

sum remember i could not walk 30 ft without stopping. I went to a funeral standing most of the day and the next morning my leg hurt so bad i passed out. Make a long story short, cuz of smoking the arteries in my legs were plugged. I had a double by-pass with problems but now i am glad to say i can walk farther. Every time i suggest to someone to stop smoking i lift up my shirt. The scar aint pretty.

I have the same scar earned the same way as yours....tobacco addiction. The staples come out on tuesday.

 

[bigwater]

Careful with that Chantix. Watch out for the side effects which can make you an emotional mess to the point of killing your wife or kids or yourself.

http://www.chantix.com/side-effects-safety-info.aspx?chtxsrc=CHW10019334&source=google&HBX_PK=s_chantix+side+effects&HBX_OU=50&o=23119569|166373525|0

I tend to avoid medication when the list of side effects is longer than the list of benefits.

 

[GPURS]

Every prescription has a list of potential side effects as long as your arm. It is a CYA deal. Everyone wants medication without side effects, and you can't have it both ways. Try the Chantix and if you have a desire(one you have not had before) to kill your wife, maybe back off. Otherwise, if the Chantix don't kill ya, the smokes will......

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Nah, I'm a Joker, and a midnight Toker...


Scott

HA!

 

[discovery_bound]

Well, it's been eight days smoke-free and stopped taking the pills this past weekend. (only because i forgot the damn things when we left for Easter weekend.) Didn't have a single craving all weekend and that was without the pills! The only side affect was slight nausea that lasted for about 1 - 2 minutes when I first started taking Chantix. I'd recommend Chantix to anyone who is really serious about quitting the habit.

Aaahhhh.....I feel f'n great! Now, to start jogging and biking again....that will be the next hurdle.

Thanks all,

HH
DB

 

[truckinbutch]

Careful with that Chantix. Watch out for the side effects which can make you an emotional mess to the point of killing your wife or kids or yourself.

http://www.chantix.com/side-effects-safety-info.aspx?chtxsrc=CHW10019334&source=google&HBX_PK=s_chantix+side+effects&HBX_OU=50&o=23119569|166373525|0

I tend to avoid medication when the list of side effects is longer than the list of benefits.

Chantix didn't work for me because of those side effects .
I have gone from 5 packs of Marlboros to the equivalent of 3 cigs a day by switching to a pipe .

 

[WindHarvester]

Nope, quit cold turkey about a year and a half ago.

Good luck to all, it gets easier as time goes on.