Thanks everyone on all the helpful information....hopefully I can get through it when I make my final day...I think I am going to go with either the gum or lozenges....any more helpful advice would be greatly appreciated!
You will have the motivation after you have had a "cardiac incident" and your laying on the cath table and you hear the doctor say "smoker's heart." I quit cold turkey 10 yrs ago when I found out I needed an angiogram after a bout of chest pain. Ended up have two blocked coronary arteries. The m.d. said smoking is harder on the heart and blood vessels than the lungs.
Then there's the disease no one talks much about COPD, affects current smokers and those who have quit years prior. It doesn't look like much fun dragging a secondary oxygen source around with you.....
-- Edited by PAR on Wednesday 18th of March 2009 05:20:04 AM
I just quit 4 weeks ago, altho I still use tobacco, I use That Camel snuss that just came out. Doc said it was better for me than smoking, but he more or less told me it wasn't a healthy way to quit. Its different than most chewing tobacco, it comes in a little pouch, kinda like bandits, and there isn't any "juice" to spit out. I don't think there is as much nicotine as in a cig, doc told me it was the same as chewing nicorett gum, same health wise anyway, he said the snuss wasn't as likely to give me mouth cancer, gum disease as regular chew is as it doesn't come in direct contact with my lip or gum.
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Hope this helps. My husband quit 20 years ago on Nicorette gum...He's now hook on the gum. Another guy at the office quit successfully last year on Commit. I took Chantix and quit frankly it helps and you have support.. I stopped it because I have no will power and apparently was not ready. I used it when I traveled.. but got home and fell in the same routine. Good luck and wishing you success. Chantix has to be thru your doctor. And is very expensive.
-- Edited by vko on Tuesday 17th of March 2009 06:50:28 PM
I really want to quit....wondering who out there has...what they successfully did and all that! Please share your story as I am uncertain on using gum, patch, pills, cold turkey or what!
Chantix has to be thru your doctor. And is very expensive.
