Topic : Trying to Quit Smoking?

I WOULD LOVE TO QUIT SMOKING.  HOWEVER I AM AFRAID ABOUT GAINING WEIGHT, THAT I REALLY DON'T NEED TO GAIN.  PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME!!!!!!!

Gaining weight is an issue that really doesn't bear your worry when comparing it to quitting smoking. I know, been there done that. Yes i quit, yes I gained weight. It is the least of my worries though....I quit only AFTER I lost a kidney to renal cell carcinoma...the big 'c'...cancer. Kidney cancer is smoking related. So please just stop smoking, you can diet, you cannot grow another kidney, lung or anything else.

Best of luck.

I smoked a pack and a half for the last 2 years and a pack a day for the 5 years before that. I have no will power when it comes to smoking and I recently had a friend try the medication chantix to stop smoking,. he smoked even more than me and if he could do it surely I could. You smoke for the +1st week like you usually would and then after that you stop and it's so easy. the only side effect I had was a little bit of nausea right after i took it. my friend had dizziness but nothing to severe. I strongly recommend it to anybody who has tried  and fell off the wagon. other than the environmental/social aspects of it ( like knowing certain times I look forward to smoking and wanting to do it) I had no physical or mental erge to smoke and I've been smoke free for 3 months now. It's so nice  and you feel better about yourself after doing it and succeding.

Most insurance wont cover it but in my state it was 100 bucks. much worth it and a sound investment x100 in the long run

Hi Angelgirl,

There is desire in your heart to quit no-doubt. Sounds like you really did good for a period of time, KUDOS to you !!! Now you know that the stress you were having last Saturday is a trigger in picking them up again. Work from that. You have the tools to break free of the "chains of smoking". Would it have helped if used nicotine gum, instead of going and buying the cigarettes.  Having the gum or something similar to pop in when a stress attack occurs is guarding yourself against falling off the wagon.  I carried around the nicotine inhaler with me for at least a year after I quit. Never know when something is going to be so strong the urge or a stress factor that you just can't go on without a cigarette. Deep breathing exercises work small miracles too.

Cutting your pills in half, do you think your urge would have been there if you were taking a whole pill at the stress  time ??? Maybe eat more at the time of taking them.  The $100.00 dollars is a bunch for a prescription, but I spent more on the cigarettes in a month. Right now you are smoke-free, work from there. Eat more at the time of the pill, carry around an nicotine inhaler, or gum. You got it going, you just hit a bump in the road, now is the time get back on track.

Linda

Two years, one month, three weeks, four days, 12 hours, 51 minutes and 35 seconds. 23596 cigarettes not smoked, saving $4,565.84. Life saved: 11 weeks, 4 days, 22 hours, 20 minutes.

I have not tried  "Chantix", but have heard good results with it. Everything you can prepare yourself with to help, will make it easier. I used the Wellbrutrin, and the inhaler. And coming back and forth to the board when I would have a rough moment. Post often, it helps take some of the pressure off.  I also smoked about 35 years too, and about pack and half a day.

Linda

Two years, one month, three weeks, five days, 21 hours, 43 minutes and 53 seconds. 23637 cigarettes not smoked, saving $4,573.79. Life saved: 11 weeks, 5 days, 1 hour, 45 minutes.