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Tips for quitting smoking?!? Please!?!
« on: Sep 13th, 2004, 5:31am » |
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14:30 tomorrow (GMT)
Appt with the smoking nurse (Curious name for someone advising you on quitting!).
Apart from the bull she will tell me is there anything that you guys can.
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James
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Re: Tips for quitting smoking?!? Please!?!
« Reply #1 on: Sep 13th, 2004, 7:29am » |
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Hello, James. Bupropion is a godsend!! (Trade names are primarily Zyban and Wellbutrin). See if she will prescribe a generic brand, and write the script for chronic bronchitis or mild depression. This will make it much cheaper from an insurance billing standpoint. Use that in conjunction with the nicotine patch, (Nicoderm CQ, or Walmart's "Equate" brand), and it makes quitting a breeze. You can do it! Day 13, here....
-Frank
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Re: Tips for quitting smoking?!? Please!?!
« Reply #2 on: Sep 13th, 2004, 7:33am » |
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Thanks Frank,
She said last time (I tried to quit) that because of epilepsy she won't give me Zyban. AAAAAARRRGGHH! I know it's not a cure but it seems to help people.
She will give me patches. She did last time. I guess gum could help fill in the time as well.
Keep going, I'm joining you.
Gonna do it this time!!!!
cheers,
james
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« Reply #3 on: Sep 13th, 2004, 7:56am » |
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Okay, James: If you can't do the Zyban thing, check out some books by Allan Carr. "How To Quit Smoking Permanently," and some of the others he's written. Get involved with a smoking cessation site. Check out this website: http://www.quitsmokingonline.com/
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Re: Tips for quitting smoking?!? Please!?!
« Reply #4 on: Sep 13th, 2004, 8:06am » |
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You MUST tell yourself ...
"That's it, I quit !!"
and quit COLD TURKEY.
Drugs won't help you quit unless you want to quit first !
Unsolved
PS. Goodluck and don't worry, I'll smoke one for ya 
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Re: Tips for quitting smoking?!? Please!?!
« Reply #5 on: Sep 13th, 2004, 8:16am » |
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Cheers Frank,
i will look at that site. I do want to quit, I don't even enjoy smoking now. After I smoke I have an awful taste in my mouth and don't want to hold my son who is 9 weeks old because I smell of smoke.
Will and Can do this!
You bugger Unsolved! I might drop you a line now each time I crave, and get you to smoke one for me!! haha!
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Re: Tips for quitting smoking?!? Please!?!
« Reply #6 on: Sep 13th, 2004, 8:40am » |
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This site was a godsend for me:
http://www.whyquit.com/
and you can get a quit meter here:
http://www.silkquit.org/
And then your stats look like this 
Six months, two weeks, five days, 23 hours, 42 minutes and 34 seconds. 8079 cigarettes not smoked, saving $807.78. Life saved: 4 weeks, 1 hour, 15 minutes.
Good luck Rubber, you CAN do it, you sound very much READY!!!!
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« Reply #7 on: Sep 13th, 2004, 8:41am » |
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on Sep 13th, 2004, 8:16am, rubberplant wrote:You bugger Unsolved! I might drop you a line now each time I crave, and get you to smoke one for me!! haha!
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LOL ... drop me a line anytime ! 
If the CH doesn't kill me, I hope the cigarettes do !! j/k of course.
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Re: Tips for quitting smoking?!? Please!?!
« Reply #8 on: Sep 14th, 2004, 10:58am » |
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Thanks Guys,
My Palm now has software that does exactly that. Analy found software on-line this morning.
Patch on, Gum in.
1 hour 59 minutes, 14 seconds. not smoked 1 cigarette, saved 13 pence, and saved 8 minutes 19 seconds of my life!
Here we come clean lungs!
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« Reply #9 on: Sep 14th, 2004, 11:00am » |
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GO! GO! GO!! Good on you, mate!!
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« Reply #10 on: Sep 14th, 2004, 11:12am » |
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Thanks Frank,
got to do this for someone special,
Can't post a picture because my site isn't up yet. But he's called Jacob and he's 9 weeks and a day old. Don't want to be running around wheezing at the age of 30.
Rachel, my wife will be happy as well.
James
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« Reply #11 on: Sep 14th, 2004, 11:45am » |
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Here is an excellent link to check out...
http://www.roofchek.com/quitsmoking/
You're doing a great job, just take things one day, hour, minute and second at a time. Breathe through the cravings, and know that they will pass.
take care,
mel
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Re: Tips for quitting smoking?!? Please!?!
« Reply #12 on: Sep 14th, 2004, 12:01pm » |
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Okay...
I think my time is coming.
Out of the blue this morning, a close friend of mine who is the associate pastor/music director at our Church called to talk for a while.
Asked me to play guitar at Church this Sunday and ended the conversation by telling me that he felt the need to pray for me to quit smoking.
I'm one of those people that needs to set a date though. Sept 20th sounds like a good date to me, sooner if I really get the urge.
There...I put it in writing. Now I need to grow a spine and stay true to my word.
I'll be joining you guys soon.
Pat
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Re: Tips for quitting smoking?!? Please!?!
« Reply #13 on: Sep 14th, 2004, 12:02pm » |
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Tooth picks where my staple. Especially in the car as I was always used to smoking while I was driving. so I started chewing on Toothpicks. Still now 8 years after quitting I still have them in my car, at my desk at work, downstairs at home and upstairs by my computer.
I have to agree with unsolved. Cut back on the number of cigs you smoke until you are down to less then 10 (preferrable less then 5) a day and then stop cold turkey. Once you go 5 days the nicotin is out of your system and all it is after that is will power. I cant see how the patches really help because it is keeping your body dependant on nicotine.
You have to want to quit. It is not easy. I am not one of those ex smokers who say that it is easy.
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Re: Tips for quitting smoking?!? Please!?!
« Reply #14 on: Sep 14th, 2004, 2:49pm » |
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I totally agree it is willpower. If I could show you a picture of the two people I'm doing this for ( after me, that is. ) then you'd see I had enough going for me to realise that time is to stop.
the National Health Service over here actually GIVE you the patches to help you wean yourself off the nicotine , Big patch, little patch, even littler patch. I cut down from over twenty to about five over the last ten days. now I've stopped for almost SIX hours! (Better than I have ever done !) And over the next month will slowly have my nicotine intake cut as well.
Do it Pat, I think this is going to be the one thing I am ever going to want to shake my own hand over and thank myself for. But read all the literature as well. I found loads on-line but nothing beats the support and advice here!
I have to go and feed the bubba-boy Jacob and get the little tyke off to bed. Must get my site up soon and show Pic. I know every hates looking at other peeps babies, but what the hell.
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« Reply #15 on: Sep 14th, 2004, 3:53pm » |
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Honestly James, I believe it isn't willpower that makes the quit permanent. I think it is a combination of self discipline and mind conditioning. Conditioning your mind to change the way you think, has got to be the most difficult thing in the world, but it CAN be done. As I've said before, it's 10% nicotine addiction, but 90% psychological. If you can work on changing your way of thinking, habits and attitude, you'll be more successful than trying by willpower alone.
Good luck, and post or email one of us before you light up! It'll give you time to think about what it is your doing to harm yourself and those around you, while you wait for responses. 
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« Reply #16 on: Sep 14th, 2004, 4:00pm » |
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May help:
http://www.helpguide.org/mental/smoking.htm
Mark Twain said, "Quitting smoking is easy. I've done it a thousand times."
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Re: Tips for quitting smoking?!? Please!?!
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on Sep 14th, 2004, 12:01pm, ExplodingEyeBall wrote:Okay...
I think my time is coming.
I'm one of those people that needs to set a date though. Sept 20th sounds like a good date to me, sooner if I really get the urge.
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I'm with you Pat- Sept 20, 2010
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Re: Tips for quitting smoking?!? Please!?!
« Reply #18 on: Sep 14th, 2004, 8:59pm » |
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You have epilepsy as well? Yikes. I do too but I haven't had a CH attack since 1991 when I was 45. I can't say that about the seizures. 
I quit smoking in 1980 after smoking about 30 per day. There weren't any patches that I know of back then. All I can say is to stay aware for liquor for several months. That worked for me. After four months I had no trouble with it.
Good luck and it sounds like you're serious.
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Re: Tips for quitting smoking?!? Please!?!
« Reply #19 on: Sep 15th, 2004, 5:36am » |
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morning Guys and Gals,
Had crap time getting to sleep, Kept thinking about smoking!
I knew this morning would be the hardest point as I used to (til today) have a breakfast of champions, Cigarette and strong, black coffee.
Needless to say I am having to recondition myself out of that habit. Didn't go into the kitchen. It helped.
20 hours and 30 mins. Not smoked 17 cigarettes and saved £1.71 and nearly an hour and a half of my life.
Rachel said, "That's an hour and a half more that Jacob and I get to spend with you!" Forget LOL, I feel more like weeping out loud!
It's not until you do something like this that you realise what it and you mean to others around you.
Anyway I don't want to turn CH.com into a smoking message board or even a website for emotional Brits trying to quit!
Will keep you all informed.
Oh get this, The Smoking nurse said, "Oh don't think about your CH's, you'll just bring one on."
I can't take some people.
Thank you all,
James
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« Reply #20 on: Sep 15th, 2004, 7:42am » |
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James, there are lots of quit smoking sites out there, with forums and plenty of resources, and people who understand what you're going through. (I certainly do!) Also, if you are in the UK, look for books by Allan Carr. He's a British guy who's written a number of wonderful books on smoking cessation. Best wishes to you.
-Frank
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Re: Tips for quitting smoking?!? Please!?!
« Reply #21 on: Sep 15th, 2004, 8:01am » |
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Don't have an actual tip for you but the same method works for drugs and alcohol......don't pick one up, works for cigarettes too.
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