Quit smoking: Chantix,patches,vaping,cold turkey

It's only eating rice cakes when you're hungry if you try to switch cold turkey off cigarettes and onto a crappy truck stop e-cig. I'm enjoying my top shelf tank type right now. But you don't have to go to that extreme. Many more sensible priced and sized devices on the market. Just not where you shop everyday next to the tobacco. Do a search for stores. In the past year there have been at least a half dozen stores open within a 2 hr drive of my home. A good place to start learning, if you're interested, is the cleverly named e-cigarette forum.

There's no rule that says you have to drop one for the other. In fact I would encourage someone trying out e-cigs use them as an alternative while smoking real ones when the urge strikes. Don't beat yourself up trying to quit. You will find the e-cig more convenient and end up using it more while smoking less without thinking. Before you know it, you'll be sitting there one day not able to remember what day you smoked your last real one. Seriously. That's how it went for me.

Understatement of the week. I had to spend a bit up front, trial and error, trying out different stuff. Now that I have that figured out, I'm spending about $75 a month on average versus what I used to spend for a carton a week of the real ones. Just use what you are paying for smokes where you live and do your own math. There are some people that manage it even cheaper. I still get to enjoy "smoking" just without the nasty health problems and perpetual stink.

 

Google = Joe Cross and Reboot... or "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead" on Netflix.

Quit six months ago... gave up all tobacco products (chew is worse than cigs), lost 60 lbs and have never felt better in my life.

I am generally not a promoter of these types of things, but I lived through this one and its a life changer... but, its not easy.

I fasted on fruit and vegetable juice for 60 days...

The first week was brutal... I literally changed colors a couple of times, but it became easier soon after that.

This isn't for the faint of heart and should probably be done with the help of your physician... if you choose to give it a try.

It changed my life... thats no lie.

 

I started smoking in about 1978 and by last winter I was 1 1/2 to 2 packs per day. I had tried everything short of chantix to quit and the longest I ever lasted was a few days. Go ahead and call me weak willed if it makes you feel better, but the fact of the matter was that I was going to die from smoking, I coughed all the time, could hardly breathe when I went to bed and lit one up before I had coffee in the morning.

On Christmas Eve of last year I bought a disposable e-cig and within 2 days realized that I found my way to eventually quit smoking. I've spent a few hundred dollars figuing out what type of e-cig works for me, smoking and vaping all the while. In mid January I figured it out and haven't smoked since. Now I only vape. I mix my own nicotine juice and have used the same tank for over 6 months ($13 original cost) and replaced a couple of batteries. I spend less that $30 per month and feel so much better. I can breathe, I don't cough, I smell better and can smell better and my taste buds work again.

Vaping isn't for everyone, but for me it is.

 

I wish I could but I forgot why I went there!

 

well if you get through north dakota marlboro is 4.10 a pack or 51.50 a carton

 

The key is getting yourself subconsciously set to quit. I had tried quitting many times over the years. During the past 7 years of dealing with back pain, I knew that any surgery would necessitate me quitting, but did not want to take a chance on Chantix because of the side effects, I kept telling myself that when I found a doctor that could actually fix my back and give me my life back, I would quit.

I had back surgery Sept. 13 of last year . . . I am now just a year and a few days out of back surgery, and my last smoke was the morning of my surgery on the 1 1/2 hour car ride to the hospital. I have not even missed smoking, and have had no desire to even touch a cigarette again.

 

I would have to say the biggest help for quitting smoking. is support from freinds and loved ones. I had a brother that quit. and then he got his wife to quit. he was always there helping her. now he gained some weight after quitting. from what i was told any ways. and my sister-n-law gained some weight. and then they put a home gym in. and lost the weight.

for me??? kicking the habit is harder. that is because I started when i was 13 years old. and as my body grew. the drug became apart of my dna. and now that i am seeing 40 as young. I wonder if i quit. if my body can physically handle the change? any one else out there wonder that???


the other thing I found out about quitting smoking. is you have to replace the habit with another habit. so I was hinking about findng a women to have sex with 3 time an hour as a rplacment habit.

 

To RealDude1969, the OP here, congratulations! I know what you went through, as i too quit after 40years of smoking. Two months ago today. Even at NC prices I've NOT Spent 600bucks on cigarettes and have NOT smoked 2,000 cigarettes since my quit date!
Good luck to you and all others here who have kicked the habit.
My motivation was to get my BP down without meds. Also stopped drinking coffee. Still had to go on meds but I'm exercising daily and never felt better!

I used the patch and participated in a smoking cessation clinic with the Veterans Administration. SUCCESS!

 

Wow 60 days ! i did 3 days straight then every evening for weeK of juicing. by the end of the week i had gone from full dose BP meds to 3/4 to half. i juice about 2x a week after that for a while. Now i just juice once or twice everytime i get home. My fav recipe is one bunch Kale, half bunch Spinich 2 lbs Carrots 2 cucumbers Sometimes i add Aloe Vera juice or Gatorade

 

Juicing is great for your health and can help you lower your blood pressure and give you a boost of energy. I have done it before, but always get too lazy to keep it up.