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and another addiction too, but I am fighting it off, but its not going so good...any helpful thoughts welcome, I have relapsed so many times its not funny. Had quit for 3 weeks and relpased 4 days ago, been smoking for 4 days. Trying again now. Struggle. Have sufonil under my tounge, waiting and prayin to kick in. Tried chantix, to exp and KILLS stom. EXP with abx. on zyban, and sulofonil right now and lexapro.
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boy - your stronger than i am for quitting 3 weeks! i havent made it 3 days yet so i am not one to ask for help but i can tell you this much
KEEP GOING - IF YOU CAN MAKE IT 3 WEEKS, YOU CAN DO IT!!
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Yah I know it!!! thanks, still hangin in there. I have promised if I HAVE to do it, I got the nicotine candy, or lotion. That dumb way, but better for me then smokin.
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James....I've been quit for a year and a half and don't even think about smoking anymore...best advice is just force yourself to think of something else till the craving passes...It gets much easier over time.
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Go James go!! You can do it!
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lymebytes
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Cigarette smoking is very hard to quit...but even harder when you have stress in your life. The stress from this disease makes giving it up very hard. I have heard people say it is the only "normal" thing left from their past.
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I quit 1.5 years ago. It was soooo hard. I tried a million times before. This time I just said to myself that I have control over it. I make the decision to smoke or not to smoke. It's as easy as that.
Then, I set short milestones for myself. After one month, I bought myself a gift with the money saved.
I occasionally think about smoking now, but do not ever want to go back to it. I know that I can't even have one, or else I am back to square one.
Keep up the fight. You will be through this tough time before you know it. Give it at least two months, and then you will see.
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jamescase20
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If the nicotine level required to kill the bugs in your blood was high enough to kill, none of us would have this disease. ITs not high enough, and since tabbao sucks the life out of you, thats not such a good idea. I did relapse tonight, but I didnt drink. And I am starting over right now.
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I'm 42 and smoked since I was 13. I quit one month ago yesterday. I was smoking 5-6 cigs a day for the last 10 years and a pack a day before that. I woke up one Sat. morning one month ago and said "I'm done". I've not smoked or even craved a smoke since.
I'm taking homeopathy for lyme and what I found out later was this certain homeopathic remedy is also used to help people quit smoking, but I didn't know that. My homeopath is convinced this remedy helped me quit. Had I not quit, I wouldn't have believed it, but now I'm a firm believer.
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Just had to say something. This is a topic I am passionate about.
I quit 10 years ago with Zyban. I took it for one week without even trying to quit smoking. During the second week of taking Zyban I made a "date" with myself to quit on about the middle of the second week.
Then I started putting the amount of money I would have spent on cigarettes (it was $3 a day then) in a coffee can and when it had built up to a substantial amount I went out and bought something just for me. I did this savings for about a year.
I was a pack a day smoker and NEVER thought I would be able to ever quit. My husband did not quit when I did so he continued to smoke. He quit 2 years after I did. We both hate it now. We are rabid anti-smokers.
I found that for a long time it was easy one day and difficult the next and it kept going like that. It did get easier and finally it was easy every day.
I did not drink much for quite some time because I knew that would be a trigger.
I wish you good luck. You can do it if you put your mind to it.
I quit when I was 42 and at that point I said I had had a good run and enjoyed the cigarettes during my youth but there is nothing uglier than an old lady smoking and I didn't want to be that old lady. Plus, my kids were getting to an age when they would have possibly picked up the habit and that thought killed me to think about. They are 22 and 19 now and do not smoke. Thank God!!!
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quote:Originally posted by jamescase20: If the nicotine level required to kill the bugs in your blood was high enough to kill, none of us would have this disease.
People think I'm making this up, but there were times when I had troubling breathing (this was before IV Rocephin) where smoking a cigarette helped me to breathe.
I can't explain it, and I'm not even going to try. But I believe cigarettes saved my life, no matter how disgusting they are.
I still wish you the best of luck. They definitely are expensive, and I'd love to quit for that reason alone, but I don't have anything else in my life right now other than my cat, Kermie. Not that he isn't enough, but humans would be nice, too.
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Hang in there James, you can do it... Posts: 6641 | From Michigan | Registered: Jun 2001
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at this stage i think you made the right choice going for the smoke instead of the drink...if you had to pick one!
both is going to be hard to kick at same time james
hang in there!
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Cass A
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One think that helps with cravings is VITAMIN C. You can get the chewable kind and suck on them when you get a craving for something.
Also, B vitamins help a LOT! These get "eaten up" by medicines and also cigarettes.
Best,
Cass A
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new plan...smoking all weekend, but didnt drink. Dr S says to use nicotine patch for fatigue!! Thats nuts but I am anyway, mom said to me, jim, if you started smoking when you get sick from lyme maybe the lyme is getting sicker from it. ONe other thing, parkensons viticums are using nicopatches for slowing altimers. See the conn?
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I have substitutes, and will have to toss those soon.
Every single time you quit, you learn something. Don't be too hard on yourself --it takes people sometimes half a dozen tries or more to finally succeed. Just don't stop trying -- take something away from each try. More ammo to help you succeed for your next time.
And you WILL!!
Michelle PS Quitnet.com is FREE. Has tons of resources and forums and support!
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