For anyone wh has ever smoked-I NEED HELP!!

[posey]

I am trying so hard to quit smoking, especially since this has happened. I can't believe they have such a powerful control over me.

I will be sincerely acceptive to any feedback I can get.

Thanks in advance, I really need to stop.

posey

[carla]

What has stopped me was thinking was what I was doing.I was giving the Government money.
I don't think smoking Tabbacco is that bad for you anyway.
But smoking the chemicals they soak the filters in is.

[posey]

Wow Carla, I did not know this. I have done it 2 times now in the past 4 months but don't get past that 3rd day. I get really irritable and this illness makes it that much more harder.

Actually, that is in truth but I also niw it is rationalizing as t why I should be able to have a cigarette. I can't understand why I never got addicted to pain meds since with cigarettes I sem to have a very addictive personality trait.

Even back in my younger (more foolish) years when I use to do a little partying, I always said it would be easier for me to give up drinking alcohol than smoking. Not that I was a drunk or anything like that but I did have a few years of partying with friends or a cocktail or 2 after work. I haven't drank in 15 years. One day I just could not even stand the smell of it any longer. Weird. Maybe "M" was beginning then.

posey

[carla]

I know what works really well but could be more dangerous than smoking.
Nicotine Patches .Have you tried them?

[jonsi]

Hi Posey,

I need to quit smoking cigs too... for my daughter.

Hmmmmm, I think I could stop "cold turkey" if I can set my mind to it. I haven't tried to quit, yet. I don't know if I would consider nicotine patches.

Itwl,
~jonsi

[Katinka]

OMG, speaking about smoking...I'm totally "hooked" since I'm 14 years old (folks start early over here, lol) and I smoke almost 2 packs a day
Stopped smoking while pregnant though...but then...shame on me..those dang cigarettes I can't keep my hands off 'em.
I know I should quit too but..........I get real cranky without.......
Katinka

[faithinacure]

I smoked cigarettes for a short time and could not stop. It gets into the neurotransmitters of the brain and causes a dopamine response that causes addictive feelings and obsession with the cigs. I took Chandix, and I quit in 2 days. I didn't follow the dosing directions. I dosed down, so I could tolerate it. The nausea was pronounced with dosing up as indicated. Dosing is important in the success of this, as any substance. Less is more. If I had taken it in full dose, it would have failed.
I am not endorsing this stuff, just sharing my experience with it. It may be off the market now, not sure...

What amazed me about this drug, is that it took all the thoughts and cravings away. It was if I had a lobotomy and didn't remember that I HAD to smoke. The pain of quitting was gone. It helped with the psychological and physical aspects of quitting. Unfortunately, lately, there's news about Chandix and it has dangers and warnings, so I'm not saying it's safe! I feel it was ok for me personally, cause I was on it for such a short time. But it was the reason I was able to quit and nothing else worked.

It was still a risk with taking in a drug that influences brain chemistry, but smoking was giving me chest pains; heart disease runs in my family, so I chose it. I did find myself falling, tripping and losing motor control. That went away when I quit the stuff.

I quit smoking and don't crave it now at all on any level. It was a miracle for me. I think it was perfect for my situation. But, I got this disease down the road after quitting. Yes, I did have pos lyme tests, sleep apnea, weak immunity and sensitivity to yeasts and molds. Don't eat peanut butter, cheese, mushrooms, etc.

I developed problems breathing after i quit. That's normal to some degree, as the follicles in the lungs aren't numbed anymore from the nicotine and you can feel the damage of the smoking. I thought I had lung cancer. I didn't though.

Then, I read somewhere that nicotine inhibits parasitic growth in lungs!!! Morg was waiting after I quit...I have a hunch, I should have taken some kind of lung anti-parasitic after I quit to inhibit parasitic/mold vulnerability in my lungs. Strangling sensations around my neck too. DE helped with parasites, strangling sensations and kicking in stomach. Anti fungals I recently took helped me greatly. Not a cure. I still need to take something anti parasitic for my lungs. Jo, gave me the name something for that I think...Jo, do you remember? Can't find it..

Smoking is soooo hard to quit; I think it's one of the worst and painful addictions. I read it's harder to quit than more "serious" drugs. And I didn't smoke inside the house, so i was always counting the minutes to go out, even in the freezing cold. When I tried to quit, previously, I felt like so irritable too, cause it's your body chemistry; it's a powerful thing. It felt like it was essential, like breathing. It's this little break, I liked inhaling...

I wanted to share this with you all. Hope it comes in handy for you folks trying to quit.

Love, Faithxoxo

[posey]

Well I started when I was 12. That was 43 years ago. Cigarettes are like a part of me and a part of my days. Believe me I know about rationalizing too. I am the "SUPER RATIONALIZER" when it comes to why I should be able to have my cigarette when I want. That is the immense power behind these LEGAL KILLERS.

I think it is more intensely psychological on my part. I tried the gum. I do not want to wear any patch, in truth, I know me and if I have the patch I'm afraid I might smoke and get double nicotene whammy.. Right now with my doctors help I am working to titrate off of some of the medications I am taking for pain, because drugs lower one's immune system. However, I am going to talk to a Dr. tomorrow about Chantix because I figure if it helps me to quit smoking, the benefits far outweigh taking another med.

I am a super A++ personality type. This is why it is so hard for me to do things such as house work in a slow manner. If I start a job/task which can reasonably be completed the same day, that is what I did. When I was working, (at the risk of sounding like I have a big head - but honestly don't) I was one of the best at what I did. I could shift gears at a moments notice. It took me 2 years to cut through the depression and anxiety of not working any longer and being with the public whom I always loved so much. I'm a people pleaser and it was such gratification at the end of a day to know I did a job well done and made people happy and pleased with the service they received.

I started tending bar in my early 20s and loved it so much that I continued this thoughout my life. I always felt people are a gift from God and I enjoyed so much to be with them and to make their experience the best it could be. My last employment was at a Country Club and I managed 2 bars there. One was for weddings, banquets, etc. The other for the public and golfers.

When the pain from degenerative disc disease and Fibromyalgia (which brings to mind; I am seriously beginning to wonder if Fibro is all from this "IT") I got so depressed and angered and I sought out a counselor. She was wonderful. She would even tell me her trials and we had fun together for the 50 minutes we spent together. Well then the gov. stepped in when I was eligible for Medicare and she didn't have the right credentials in order for Medicare to cover my appt. with her. I think this is so way out of the realm of healthcare. She did me so much good without the multiple Capital letters after her last name.

I thank you all for your input and it brings much joy to my day to come here and "meet" with you. This place is so welcoming , whomever began it must have had a seed from God planted in their head.

I am going to end this by saying that through the course of my Bible Studying which I am doing at home via DVDs ordered from a terrific theologian from Moody's Bible Institute, the Book of James is giving me much comfort.

Bless you all, and thank you for your selfless support.

posey

[fdxfield]

I worked with a lady who had quit smoking several years earlier. She told me that there is not a day that goes by that she doesn't really wish she could take a puff. Every times she would smell someone smoking, she would say "Oh, that smells so good".

I don't want to live like that.

I stopped smoking during pregnancy as well but after being home with the twins for 6 months, the stress was harboring. Smoking was the safest choice for my sanity at that time.

I like smoking, for the time being. My mother was a chain smoker. She now has emphysema at the age of 55ish. My grandmother is a lung cancer survivor, a of two years ago, and remains cancer-free to this date.

[sarothra]

Hi Posey,

I started smoking at age 13 and smoked until 1991. It was, at the time, the hardest thing I had ever done.

For me, I had to make stopping smoking my absolute TOP PRIORITY. There was nothing else more important in the whole world - it had to be #1.

And you have to decide for once and for all that you are DONE. Nothing will ever make you smoke again.

Until you decide that for once and for all you will keep puffing here and there and will never get healed from the addiction.

sar