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For anyone wanting to quit smoking...Chantix is it
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<blockquote data-quote="hearts and roses" data-source="post: 67598" data-attributes="member: 2211"><p>I was never a full time smoker. In fact, I would often forget to buy cigarettes and it didn't worry me because I knew I could if I wanted to the next day. I would sometimes go days or weeks without one and then just pick one up as if a day hadn't passed at all. That was before kids. Then I quit and never looked back. Until my imminent separation and subsequent divorce...then I smoked for about 2 months and then stopped again. My difficult child was 2 at the time. I stopped for about 13 years and when difficult child's behaviors peaked with her being kidnapped and sexually assaulted by an internet predator (and her stupidity) at age 15, the firs thing I did was buy a pack of cigarettes. It's ironic how I immediately went for my old brand. Hmmm. Anyway, I haven't stopped this time. In fact, when I first started smoking again (2 years ago), it was maybe one or two a day, progressed to 3 or 4 and now I stand at about that point, 4/5 a day. Maybe a pack a WEEK. </p><p></p><p>But I'm an asthmatic and I can feel it in me. My heart kind of races if I smoke a ciggy; I immediately pop in a piece of gum and wash my hands; I only smoke after work or on the road. I know it's not a lot of cigarettes, but I am having a heck of time giving them up. I have a full prescription of Chantix that I bought for difficult child back in April when she said she wanted to quit and our ins covered it, but she hasn't used not even one. It sits there in the pharmacy bag stapled closed. I am tempted to use them for myself, but at 4-5 cigarettes a day, do I need another drug to do so? I asked our family DR and she gave me a snotty look and said, "Go cold turkey!" and walked out of the room. Hmph.</p><p></p><p>And my biggest question is: After the script has long been used up, what is the long term success rate of Chantix?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hearts and roses, post: 67598, member: 2211"] I was never a full time smoker. In fact, I would often forget to buy cigarettes and it didn't worry me because I knew I could if I wanted to the next day. I would sometimes go days or weeks without one and then just pick one up as if a day hadn't passed at all. That was before kids. Then I quit and never looked back. Until my imminent separation and subsequent divorce...then I smoked for about 2 months and then stopped again. My difficult child was 2 at the time. I stopped for about 13 years and when difficult child's behaviors peaked with her being kidnapped and sexually assaulted by an internet predator (and her stupidity) at age 15, the firs thing I did was buy a pack of cigarettes. It's ironic how I immediately went for my old brand. Hmmm. Anyway, I haven't stopped this time. In fact, when I first started smoking again (2 years ago), it was maybe one or two a day, progressed to 3 or 4 and now I stand at about that point, 4/5 a day. Maybe a pack a WEEK. But I'm an asthmatic and I can feel it in me. My heart kind of races if I smoke a ciggy; I immediately pop in a piece of gum and wash my hands; I only smoke after work or on the road. I know it's not a lot of cigarettes, but I am having a heck of time giving them up. I have a full prescription of Chantix that I bought for difficult child back in April when she said she wanted to quit and our ins covered it, but she hasn't used not even one. It sits there in the pharmacy bag stapled closed. I am tempted to use them for myself, but at 4-5 cigarettes a day, do I need another drug to do so? I asked our family DR and she gave me a snotty look and said, "Go cold turkey!" and walked out of the room. Hmph. And my biggest question is: After the script has long been used up, what is the long term success rate of Chantix? [/QUOTE]
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