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Re: The stopping smoking thread :-(
« Reply #30 on: September 07, 2012, 05:33:23 PM »
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Re: The stopping smoking thread :-(
« Reply #32 on: September 09, 2012, 09:36:09 PM »
Good luck you two.  I'm rooting for you, in fact we all are.  Big support network on here I imagine.

I gave up 12 years ago because I developed a wheeze.  I was waking myself up in the night with the noise!  I only had patches for a week, then decided to go cold turkey.  I was a bit hyper for a few days, but it settled down.  Strangely I never smoked a lot during the day but when I got into my car to leave work, I was always gagging for one then.  I had to find a way to combat that and I found playing heavy metal rock music at full blast numbed my head enough to dull the craving.  Did nothing for my ears though!  It must have seemed strange to some people as I pulled up at the traffic lights at the end of Loundsley Green Road - an old biddy playing Iron Maiden at full thrutch!

You develop your own strategies  :)

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Re: The stopping smoking thread :-(
« Reply #33 on: September 10, 2012, 11:28:06 AM »
Well done GG can't have been easy.  :)
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Re: The stopping smoking thread :-(
« Reply #34 on: September 10, 2012, 08:32:25 PM »
Should be picking my prescription up for Zyban tomorrow teatime.
Might start the course Wednesday.
Apparently I take it for a 6/7 days then stop smoking, and double my dose of it.
Cos it's in my system, the urges shouldn't be 'as' bad  :-X
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Re: The stopping smoking thread :-(
« Reply #35 on: September 10, 2012, 08:36:42 PM »
I've heard good things about that one Fly - my mate's mother packed in no probs with that.

Hope it works for you mate. :)
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Re: The stopping smoking thread :-(
« Reply #36 on: September 10, 2012, 09:57:19 PM »
Fly how does that work then - do you slowly cut down the dose over time?
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Re: The stopping smoking thread :-(
« Reply #37 on: September 11, 2012, 10:52:43 AM »
yep, I heard good things about Zyban too, wanted the missus to use it instead of the electric ones, but she's less keen. Let us know how it goes.

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Re: The stopping smoking thread :-(
« Reply #38 on: September 11, 2012, 06:59:07 PM »
Fly how does that work then - do you slowly cut down the dose over time?

Basically yes OC

Here's a description of both, Zyban(Me) and Chantix(Our_Lass)
Our_Lass can't have Zyban because of other medication she's on.
http://www.everydayhealth.com/smoking-cessation/nicotine-free-smoking-cessation-aids.aspx

I've got my Zyban tablets and am starting taking them in the morning. (Wednesday).
1 a day for the next 6 days, then 2 a day, as I posted earlier.

I'm planning on cutting down over the next 6/7 days, then stop all together next Wedneday, if I haven't already.
I can use patches, gum, e-cigarettes etc all I want as neither tablet is nicotine based.

Hey, I've only been smoking for 30 years, should be a piece of pi$$  ::)

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Re: The stopping smoking thread :-(
« Reply #39 on: September 11, 2012, 07:44:56 PM »
The sites down Fly I'll have a look tomorrow. Do these kind of meds have any side effects
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Re: The stopping smoking thread :-(
« Reply #40 on: September 11, 2012, 07:49:21 PM »
Both have also been shown to have some serious possible side effects:

Headaches
Nausea and vomiting
Trouble sleeping and vivid dreams
Agitation
Depression and thoughts of suicide
Fits
And everything else they can fit on the literature  :)

Just to name a few  :o
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Re: The stopping smoking thread :-(
« Reply #41 on: September 13, 2012, 05:19:48 PM »
Any news Flyboy?
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Re: The stopping smoking thread :-(
« Reply #42 on: September 13, 2012, 05:53:53 PM »
mmm give us meds to help with one complaint and we get the possibilty of several more for taking it!
My first meds for back pain made me sick, the second one me gave me indigestion!
Can't win at times can we.
Hope you don't suffer any of the side effects Fly. :(
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Re: The stopping smoking thread :-(
« Reply #43 on: September 13, 2012, 06:10:35 PM »
Sorry peeps, meant to update last night.
Both started on the tablets Wednesday.
Were allowed to smoke as normal for the next week or so.
Strange sort of day, felt a bit 'high' at times :-)
Managed to skip a few un-needed fags though, so cut down a bit yesterday.
Side effects so far, giggles and stupidity, like a pair of kids.

Got up this morning, put the kettle on, had a fag, and bang. My head felt like I'd just been slapped.
Wide awake, and feeling guilty for standing there with a fag in my hand. Unreal  ;D
Had my cuppa, took todays tablet, got her up, had another fag, didn't really need it, just routine.
I'm been fine at work, just silly thoughts and grinning to myself,  I've been a bit busier, which helps.
Less time standing around wondering whether to have a fag or not.
From 6.00am this morning till getting home at 4.30pm, I've had 15 fags  :o
That's about half of what I usually smoke  8)

Not sure what's in these tablets, but apparently it's perfectly normal the way we are feeling  O0
and much better than drifting the other way and feeling miserable, down, sulking, suicidal etc  :)

More tomorrow  :)

Edit: Originally I said:
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Our_Lass needs to stop. I don't want to, but I'm trying to be supportive for her
The tablets are seriously changing my mind, (in more ways than one)
I'm actually looking forward to stopping now  :o
Most of you know me with a bee in my bonnet, I won't let it drop, and I wont be beaten by this now  ;)
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Re: The stopping smoking thread :-(
« Reply #44 on: September 13, 2012, 10:29:47 PM »
Go Fly Go! and missus of course.
I could do with some of those happy meds right now!
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