Hi fellow exers using chantix. I have been on Chantix for about 4 weeks. It really does work! I have crazy vivid nightmares, bouts with nausea and constipation; but it's worth it. I smoked with it about 10 days into the drug and when I went to have (what is now my last ) cig - I experienced no pleasure from the filthy weed.
This is not to say that a day does not go by that I don't want one. It truly is a one day at a time deal. I have been smoking for 20 years - it' s like loosing a friend you know you shouldn't have in your life.
I was FINALLY able to have a cup of coffee without completely craving a a cig with all my being.
A friend of mine told me that he knows of two peple who had been on Chantix for 4 months and then went back to smoking soon after they stopped taking it. I guess at the end of the day, it all comes back to our decision to never have a cig again. I can't make that promise to my loved ones. However, I do know, that if I fool myself into thinking I can just have one every now and then, I head right back to being a full on smoker. There is not gray area.
Has anyone tried smokers anonomys and has that helped?
Thanks and good luck with the struggle.
This is not to say that a day does not go by that I don't want one. It truly is a one day at a time deal. I have been smoking for 20 years - it' s like loosing a friend you know you shouldn't have in your life.
I was FINALLY able to have a cup of coffee without completely craving a a cig with all my being.
A friend of mine told me that he knows of two peple who had been on Chantix for 4 months and then went back to smoking soon after they stopped taking it. I guess at the end of the day, it all comes back to our decision to never have a cig again. I can't make that promise to my loved ones. However, I do know, that if I fool myself into thinking I can just have one every now and then, I head right back to being a full on smoker. There is not gray area.
Has anyone tried smokers anonomys and has that helped?
Thanks and good luck with the struggle.
Thanks for the reply and support. I will look up Nic Anon and find a meeting in my area. I have been working the "one day at a time "principle on my own. It's the only way I can do it. If I start thinking about 15 years from now and how so many people go back to smoking after long lapses, I start to feel overwhelmed(which in turn make me want to smoke - you know how that works)!
Congrats on being smoke free for 39 days!!
I'm 6 months smoke free. Its barely a passing thought anymore.
Chantex hurt my stomach after about a month of it so i cut the pills in half and just took 1/2 in morning and 1/2 in evening.
Then after taking them for 2 months i had major stomach surgery, nothing by mouth for 4 days so I just quit taking them then. Haven't had any problems. I still have a near full box, I'm keeping them just in case!
I still can't believe I was able to do this, I was so addicted.
Smoked 40 years and was smoking near 3 packs a day.
God Bless All of Us!!!!
Now if they only could come up with a med to make us the size we want. And the measurment we want. lol
I'm coming up on my 11th month on April 26 and my BIG DAY is May 26 for ONE YEAR SMOKE FREE.
To all those people just starting this journey GOOD LUCK you CAN DO IT!
yesterday night i tried to cut one in half and half way through the night i woke up and got out of bed looking for my smokes.
when i woke all the way i relised i didnt smoke any more so i went back to bed.
As for having problems sleeping i have always had that and take mned's to help me.
And as for the night mares well i dont seem to have them and i seem to have better dreams lol. more llife like ones.
i was told that once i stop taking the pill that i will go back to smoking...wow all this work for nothing is what i told the lady lol.
i stopped because the doc found 8 spots on both lungs and said i now have emphyozima.
bad spelling sry ppl.
my dad dies 2 yrs ago due to COPD and my ant passed away a year ago due to lung cancer so here i am trying one day one min at a time.
after 35 year of smoking a pack a day i sure hope i can fix what i messed up.
I WANT TO LIVE