I tried to quit so many times sometimes for months and it was so difficult it’s unbelievable… I think that’s why I failed those times xx with patches and lozenges probably consuming 40 mg at least 20 minimum patch and many many messages so in fact closer to 40 5060 mg I was a heavy smoker when I smoked smoked 60 A day and my hatred of the stuff became so extreme that I managed to quit and it was easy with patches and lozenges the lozenges are used them 24 hours a day If it had been difficult at this time I could not have done it when it gets difficult I can’t do it patches and was just helped so much… For the first two years anyway… That was 10 years ago I am Ten years smoke free
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I quit in sixth grade. I was a 5 cigarette-a-week smoker for a few months, lol.
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Why did your Doc take away Effexor.
Mine lowered my antidepressant from 150mg to 125mg and i went through withdrawals and feel less like doing things and feel like smoking ciggerettes also.
Nope. I recently switched to cigarellos, before that I was packing my own with the machine and the boxes of filtered tubes, which I’d tried before to save money. I gave up packing my own as it made too much of a mess and have recently decided to 20 years earlier than I thought swich to pipe smoking. Last I remember I’d quit for 3 weeks and after ending up pushed back into the psych ward (they want me committed to the state) they considered me officaly a non-smoker.
But I can’t quit, I have the worst of both addictions which having been a nearly lifelong tobacco smoker I believe there are two addictions, the habit of smoking and the physical addiction to nicotine. For me the habit of smoking and having a supply of cigarettes came first a year later I’m noticing physical dependancy. The habit of having it on me and smoking it came first, physical dependancy on the chemical came second.
My uncle had what I had before he died of cancer, the worst of both aspects of the addiction, the habit and the chemical dependancy, he was using dip in the last years I knew him but he’d switched to cigars as late as my late teens. Couldn’t quit. Hell, my father was a 4 pack a day smoker when he quit, he told me once back when I was smoking a pack and a half a day that if I kept going I’d be up to the 4 packs he ended u7p smoking and I remember telling him hell no.
Well, that’ about what I was up to until I started looking into other and cheaper means. I know the worlds a different place and cigs were cheaper in his days. But he didn’t have the psych addiction I had, he talks mostly of the physical withdrawal as what he was fighting. It depends. Now…I have no idea, I don’t even know where I’m living and I’ve lived here all my life.
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It was hard but I was stubborn. When I had quit smoking I started on snus. So stupid. It is harder to quit snus.
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Am at the stage where I just vape - have tobacco in the house but not interested in it.
Would like to try snus - don’t think it’s available in the uk. Like snuff though.
i stopped with the patches over 5 years ago
I smoked about five cigarettes a day for about a year and a half when I was in the army. It took me a lot of tries to quit. When I tried to quit I usually did it on a day when there wasn’t much stress. I don’t know if that helped or not. It took me a lot of tries to quit. Also, I’d try to quit on days when I would be more distracted from my daily smoking routine. That was how I was finally able to quit.
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I’ve been trying to quit. There have been periods of time when I don’t smoke for months but somehow I always start up again. This time so far I’m on my fifth day without a smoke. Lately I’d been smoking daily albeit not as much as before. So far I’ve had dreams every night and I feel a bit depressed from time to time but I have my mind set on lasting at least a month without a smoke. It’s tough.
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I’ve heard that the patch makes you have real vivid dreams. if I ever started the patch id become more addicted than I ever was to cigs simply for that reason, I feel
In 2013 I quit smoking for two years. I wore a patch for a month and moved on afterwards. I had a relapse though, maybe my medication was not enough. When I quit smoking or stop for a day, I experience some psychotic symptoms so make sure your doc follows you. But patch and gum are the best.
Next week I will quit again with a patch. I like smoking but better without.
Best of luck.
Crazy how much us sz smoke!!! Even the non substance abusers seem to be smokers???
Only time I see people smoking irl is at aa usually
Come to think of it, a lot of ppl at the mental health clubhouse smoke!!
Why is it? Eases the symptoms? But what makes us try it in the first place when it’s so frowned upon.
I tried it cuz I hung out with drug addicts at community service back when I was 18…