15 days with chantix plus psychological treatment and I keep smoking 
I smoke much less than before, but the vice continues… Most of my family has been able to quit, I don’t know why I’m so dependent on this crap that I’m already case pneumonia and bronchitis smoke package a day. I don’t know if in our case smoking is incurable, because when I go to the hospital everyone smokes or asks you for cigarettes … are like pigeons! my greatest dependence is mental
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I can’t quit either I’ve had 5 nicotine patches on in 3 days and am working on my 3rd pack of cigarettes for today! It sucks
My doctor won’t give me chantix becuase I was on Zoloft and went crazy
My son had p.sz and was a two pack a day smoker and he quit. In fact, we quit together.
One fine day he offered me a challenge. He said, Mom, I’ll quit if you quit. Well, that was an offer I could not refuse. We both destroyed our cigarettes and quit together for good that very day.
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I have paranoid schizophrenia. I couldn’t quit cigarettes so I switched to vaping (e-cigarettes) . I’ve been vaping for years now.
So technically I did quit cigarettes I guess.
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I have over 40 quit attempts. Couldn’t quit it. Even quitting with medication I’ll go back to smoking. Basically nothing else gets me wake up from bed besides of smoking and basic needs.
Without smoking I would lay 90 % of the day in bed. And because of smoking I’ll go out at least once a week to buy tobacco. I’m just smoking for four years but the addiction is real. I can’t thing of myself without cigarettes.
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I just stopped two weeks into the champix. Just didn’t buy anymore cigs and got no bad effects or withdrawal. I just stopped smoking so it is possible and it was easy on the champix.
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and mental addiction the way you handled it? that is, cigarettes are associated with many things in life, such as eating up to go to the bathroom. how did you get over it?
I have SzA and quit because I came down with emphysema. Emphysema killed my grandmother who smokes until the day she died. I didn’t want to die like she did, on oxygen and struggling to breathe.
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i smoke 12 smokes a day… i don’t feel like quitting yet… maybe at some point i will quit though…
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I got sick of paying loads of money to poison myself. I just didn’t need them anymore and just stopped. Yeah you miss it sometimes like after food etc but you get over that pretty quickly.
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Yes, they can. I smoked from about 1996-2002, and when I was in my twenties for about the same amount of time. I started having pain and had to quit. I wish I had never smoked.
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I take meds and quit in the summer of 2018. Quitting smoking was one of my biggest successes in the last couple of years.
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I was a heavy smoker. I couldn’t quit. But somehow I got separated from Nicotine.
For me, I think a lot of it is the habit of smoking. It’s something to do besides just sitting around. I do it for the habit as much for the nicotine. If I could find something to replace it I think that would help. Vaping did not work for me though.
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Same for me. It passes time.
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I am alone all the time, so no support to help me quit, drinking was easy, but can’t seem to beat the smoking
To answer your question: YES!
I have paranoid schizophrenia and I quit smoking 13 years ago cold turkey.
Before I quit I smoked for 17 years about a pack a day.
Don’t get discouraged, most people fail on their first attempt. It took me about 10 years between my first attempt and the time I actually did it. I attempted to quit many times before being successful. It’s hard but doable.
I don’t even think about smoking anymore and I am so happy I quit. I breathe better and feel better and I save money.
Yes you can, I smoked cigars, hookah and cigarettes, I vaped on and off for a few years and now I use nicotene pouches.
Get a package of plastic straws You could even cut them in thirds and handle and work like a cigarette… . .
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