Quit smoking: Chantix,patches,vaping,cold turkey

Chantix is not allowed by a driver. As your story shows the side effects. This is for anyone else considering it.


http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/statement-5-23-08.htm

 

I was 3 packs a day running OTR & quit cold turkey. It was very difficult the first 2 weeks, especially because the couple of companies I drove for then, we ran dirty and depended on those smokes to help stay awake on those coast to coast runs with little sleep. About 2 months after quitting, I had a coughing spell that lasted about 6 weeks which was due to my lungs cleansing themselves which was horrible; lots of stuff built up in those lungs that had to come out. For several years afterward I had regular dreams about smoking and enjoying those cigarettes. It paid off; haven't been really sick since and colds are few and far between, like years. Didn't realize how bad I felt most of the time, until I was cured of smoking.

 

Actually, they were really slow about it. There are many good reasons for the ban. Sudden mood swings in a heavy vehicle.


http://www.ttnews.com/articles/basetemplate.aspx?storyid=19910

 

Cold turkey is the best way to do it. You literally kick the physical addiction within 5-7 days. Which is why all of these patches and gums are a total scam. We're programmed so much to think that the mental addiction is so intense and strong, you really don't understand how bad the physical addiction really is.

I've been clean now for 3 years and let me say, the first 3-5 days after quitting was insane LOL. I was hallucinating, I had severe vertigo, room just spinning and ringing in my ears. Just crazy. Once I hit the 7 day mark I totally felt like the physical addiction was completely gone. That's when it becomes easier to declare war on the mental aspect of things and how you brain does get programmed into smoking. And once you do kick the physical aspect of the addiction you can identify your mental triggers more easily.

 

Yep my parents havent smoked in 7 years did for 20+ they feel so much better and save so much money its unbelievable. They used patches and prescription meds and it worked for them. What ever it was made smoking taste like ####. Did i mention they started on there week long vacation. Run for the effing hills

 

Yeah, I would suggest personally, to get out of the truck when you decide to do it. Take off at least a week and "sequester" yourself, literally. Don't leave the house, don't do anything you normally would, lock yourself in your bedroom if you have to. Just literally remove yourself from society completely for a week. Trust me, it was much easier to do that than to have to deal with the normal everyday grind AND trying to quit at the same time. After a week of quitting and the physical addiction being gone you'll be ready to continue your quitting in a normal functioning way.

 

I read through this website quite a bit while planning my quitting strategy. They have a lot of the "shock and awe" stuff where they show holes in people's throats and all that stuff. Personally, that does absolutely nothing for me and I don't like that stuff. What I did like is the written tips and different mental approaches they suggest you can take to be successful. Good website IMO

http://whyquit.com/

 

Its simple will power and the want to quit. With out both you will fail. My look on smoking is if you love your smokes and each one brings more happiness than the last then roll with. If you are like I was and you thought of death and sickness with every one the worry and stress would have killed me before the smokes. Drugs are for ###### Remember when we first started smoking how you got sick and it took time to get used to it samething at quiting time power though it.