I quit....

concealer404

superjunior wrote: »

congrats man. I need to do the same, cigarettes suck!

In Soviet Russia, cigarette sucks on you?

WilliamM2

tony millard wrote: »

I was thinking about you this morning and I'm sadened to here stress and then grief made you go smoke again. The smoking only raises your pressure. They really DON'T relax your body. Just the opposite. You should try another real sedative like a rib eye, porterhouse, or wine or something. good luck on your further recovery though.

Believe it or not, smoking lowers my blood pressure. I first got minor high blood pressure when I quit smoking in 1993 for a year, throughout the year my blood pressure went up slowly, and I was put on meds. Started smoking again and the meds needed to be cut 2/3's or my pressure was too low. My doctor didn't believe me when I told him it was the smoking that had lowered my pressure. So he took my pressure one day, then I went out and had a smoke, he took it again immediately, and it had dropped ten points, I have since demonstrated this to people at home many times. A medical anomaly. Still need to quit though.

hearingimpared

WilliamM2 wrote: »

Believe it or not, smoking lowers my blood pressure. I first got minor high blood pressure when I quit smoking in 1993 for a year, throughout the year my blood pressure went up slowly, and I was put on meds. Started smoking again and the meds needed to be cut 2/3's or my pressure was too low. My doctor didn't believe me when I told him it was the smoking that had lowered my pressure. So he took my pressure one day, then I went out and had a smoke, he took it again immediately, and it had dropped ten points, I have since demonstrated this to people at home many times. A medical anomaly. Still need to quit though.

I'm in the same boat. I'm 54 smoke, 5' 11", 277 lbs have a history of high blood pressure in my family, both my younger brother's have high blood pressure. I go to the doctor's this past Tuesday and chain smoke the whole way over, he checks my blood pressure, 122/70. Told him about the smoking and he laughed. Talk about medical anomaly!!!!

I smoke those little cigars with the filters and I inhale them just like regular cigs. $12 per carton here in Delaware. Nasty effing habit and it makes me feel like shite. I quit for three years and took it up again and I can tell you it is even harder to quit now then it was before. Nasty, nasty addiction.

I currently have a sinus infection that is giving me excruciating migraines yet I still smoke which makes the pain worse, if that's not a twisted overpowering addiction, I don't know what is.

BTW how are you feeling?

LessisNevermore

Congrats!
I had my last one this past Dec.27.

Hang in there, it gets easier!

bobman1235

nadams wrote: »

Watch your language Bob... we don't want you getting kicked off the board.

I'm sure a few people wouldn't mind

hearingimpared

bobman1235 wrote: »

I'm sure a few people wouldn't mind

Hey, I resemble that remark, hehehe just kidding! You know I love you man!:eek::)

Tony M

To the two of you where smoking lowers your pressure. You guys must be the ones who can drink AND smoke and live to be 90. That's pretty good. Congrats to both of you. That reminds me about some drugs having opposite affects on people. I'm sure nicotine must really calm you guys.;)

hearingimpared

tony millard wrote: »

To the two of you where smoking lowers your pressure. You guys must be the ones who can drink AND smoke and live to be 90. That's pretty good. Congrats to both of you. That reminds me about some drugs having opposite affects on people. I'm sure nicotine must really calm you guys.;)

Can't drink anymore, can't eat sweets anymore, can't eat spicey food often, can't work anymore, NOT a good trade off. I'll be lucky to see 60. :eek: I can however still do the dirty without the little blue pill.:D

I was shocked when I hit 25, flabbergasted at 40 and floored when I hit 50 so I guess in all reality I shouldn't surprised to hit 60!;)

wingnut4772

Congratulations! It takes a very strong person to quit. You should be proud.

WilliamM2

tony millard wrote: »

To the two of you where smoking lowers your pressure. You guys must be the ones who can drink AND smoke and live to be 90. That's pretty good. Congrats to both of you. That reminds me about some drugs having opposite affects on people. I'm sure nicotine must really calm you guys.;)

Don't drink, never have really. While smoking lowers my blood pressure, I'm sure all the other negative effects are still there. So after falling off the wagon for 5 days, today it's back to no cigarettes. Hopefully make it longer than 17 days this time.

gdb

Buy some Commit lozenges and KEEP SUCKIN' EM !!

WilliamM2

gdb wrote: »

Buy some Commit lozenges and KEEP SUCKIN' EM !!

Sadly, the reason I needed to quit for surgery was not the smoke itself, but the nicotine. Hampers bone growth. I have to quit cold turkey, no nicotine products. Lifesavers seem to help a lot.

jflail2

Made it through the entire weekend again. Great success. The weekends are the hardest b/c I don't have much to do. Avoided a company party, as the booze would've flown freely, and I can't imagine a smoke would have been that far behind...

You can do it William. I haven't made it 17 days yet, but that's not far around the corner. Positive vibes man, positive vibes...

hearingimpared

jflail2 wrote: »

Made it through the entire weekend again. Great success. The weekends are the hardest b/c I don't have much to do. Avoided a company party, as the booze would've flown freely, and I can't imagine a smoke would have been that far behind...

You can do it William. I haven't made it 17 days yet, but that's not far around the corner. Positive vibes man, positive vibes...

Way to go guys. Now I have to get on my horse and get off these things. They make me feel like shite! When I inhale it hurts. I've been smoking for 40 years with a three year break. UGH!:(

Just to show you how stong an addiction it is; I've been suffering from severe migraines and sinus pain, it gets to the excrutiating writhing point but when that urge for a smoke comes on I'm puffing away even though it makes the pain worse. Can you say, "insanity?"

jflail2

hearingimpared wrote: »

Way to go guys. Now I have to get on my horse and get off these things. They make me feel like shite! When I inhale it hurts. I've been smoking for 40 years with a three year break. UGH!:(

Definitely. You will feel worse at first, but if you fight through the crap you will most definitely feel more fit in about a week or so. It just gets better from there.

And the time frame is what really started to sink in on my part. I started when I was 18, and I'll be 36 this year. That's nearly 1/2 my life I've been smoking (if you exclude the 2-3 years I had quit.) When that sunk in it was TIME to quit! Feel the motivation. Enjoy the pain. As my buddy at work says, "that's weakness leaving your body." That's what I keep telling myself anyway :cool:

hearingimpared

I started smoking at 9 and started inhaling at 10.:o So ALL of my life except for the three years I had quit, I've not known what it is like to live without a cig hanging out of my mouth. It's disgusting and I agree with you, I never felt better than I did those three years smoke free. I've been smoking again for about a year and the ones I smoke now are heavy doses of nicotene. UGH!!!

Fongolio

I've been off the butts about 15 years now. Joe, I used to get debilitatling migrains about once a month. Since I've quit smoking I still get them about the same frequency but the amplitude is much much lower. Much more like a regular headache that won't go away no matter what you take. Annoying yes, but I don't have to hide in the bedroom with the lights all off and no sound anymore. I still enjoy a fine cigar now and then but it never leads to me wanting another or to start smoking again. Nowadays if I see an attractive woman and then I see her smoking.....instant turn off. Totally not interested, don't care how hot she is.

hearingimpared

Fongolio wrote: »

I've been off the butts about 15 years now. Joe, I used to get debilitatling migrains about once a month. Since I've quit smoking I still get them about the same frequency but the amplitude is much much lower. Much more like a regular headache that won't go away no matter what you take. Annoying yes, but I don't have to hide in the bedroom with the lights all off and no sound anymore. I still enjoy a fine cigar now and then but it never leads to me wanting another or to start smoking again. Nowadays if I see an attractive woman and then I see her smoking.....instant turn off. Totally not interested, don't care how hot she is.

I love cigars too but I know once I quit, I'll not be able to touch them either because it will throw that sick switch in my head and get me to wanting a cig.

LOL!!! @ the disgust of even hot women with smokes hanging from their mouths.

As far as the migrains go, these effers have me raining sweat from the pain, a cold sweat at that. Hopefully the MRI will get to the bottom of them. I do however find myself smoking less due to them causing an increase in what is already excrutiating pain at times. Shite man, I have to wear sunglasses in the friggin house because the light just feels like there are knives being thrust through my eyes to the back of my head. UGH!!!

Whining mode off!:rolleyes::D

concealer404

^Sounds like you need to crank the volume on your stereo.

hearingimpared

concealer404 wrote: »

^Sounds like you need to crank the volume on your stereo.

:eek::eek::eek: OUCH!!! Just the thought of it!:eek:

TECHNOKID

Congratulations to everyone that got away from this crap!

I have been smoking for close to 40 years now. I seriously started thinking about quitting since 1995 but without much success. Since 2005 it be came a yearly attempt, tried anything available on the market no matter what it costed (patchm gum, pills and even lazer therapy. I sometime lasted longer times while not so much at times. When going back to smoking I never got discouraged as my thoughts were at least what I didn't smoke during my attempts to quit couldn' do me any damage.

In mid December 2009, I deciced to try some electronic cigarettes after listening to a business neighbour positive testimonial (after using this for months, she never touch a cigarettte since).

Since I've been using this product my self, cigarette smoking didn't appeal that much to me and easily avoided the hurge.

In Jan 2010, I got fairly sick and both cig and elec. cig. were not appealing at all. I was also admitted to the Hospital in Jan 2010, they offered me the patch and refused as I didn't feell I needed it. I was released from the Hospital on Feb 26th and while I had the odd (but mild) hurge for smoking), the elec. cig. (only 2 to 3 puffs) was sufficient to keep me away from smoking. I rarely use the e-cig (maybe once a day or 2) but always carry it with me as emergency back-up just in case I get critical smoking hurge.

I know I am not out of the bush, but I would like to hope I have the will power to never touch a filty cig. anymore. God it feel so much better not smoking!!!!

Good luck to everyone trying to quit!
TK

WilliamM2

I can't believe it's really this difficult. After surgery, I quit for 2 weeks, and it seemed easy. Then I smoked for a week, quit for a week, and have now been smoking for almost two weeks.

Monday will be six weeks since surgery, and I will have smoked about half that time.:mad:

What's annoying is that my recovery is going so well, it actually amazed my doctor, and he let me go back to work after 5 weeks on 3/22, normally is is closer to 8 weeks at least. I had absolutely no pain ten days after surgery. Hate to F it up with smoking.

Called my GP on Tuesday, and he prescribed generic Zyban. You start with 1 for 3 days, then 2 a day from then on. Today is the first day of 2 a day. He recommended quitting on day 7, but I am planning on Sunday (day 6). Hope it actually helps. He also prescribed Valium at bedtime, since he said I seem to be having very high anxiety about this, and it will help me sleep. Zyban is known to cause insomnia.

Another problem is that I roll my own, and had 21lbs in the basement. Last night my wife's Mom visited, and she took it all home with her, exept for the open bag I have been using. She lives 40 miles away. I seem to break down and have that first one just before bed, so hopefully this will help.

I was hoping to find a buyer for it, but no luck. It currently goes for over $50 a 1 lb. bag, and I was looking to get $15 each if someone wanted all of it. PM me if interested. There are 20 of them left.

hearingimpared

Hang in there. At least you're trying . . . I've given up for a while.

BTW careful on the Zyban. I know a couple of people who tried it got a little screwy while on it.

NotaSuv

William I dont know ya but man its so important to quit, and really quit..
you will feel 1000% better in time..great to hear about the recovery...
as hard as it is...just stop...it will add years and saved $$ on the back end plus you will see and feel the benefits sooner than later......hope all keeps going well recovery wise..best wishes

WilliamM2

hearingimpared wrote: »

Hang in there. At least you're trying . . . I've given up for a while.

BTW careful on the Zyban. I know a couple of people who tried it got a little screwy while on it.

I actually wanted him to prescribe Chantix, it has a higher success rate, but his receptionist told me that she had tried it herself, had nightmares, suicidal thoughts etc. She said the effects lingered for 6 months after she quit taking it. She told me everyone they had prescribed it to had some type of issue with it, so they no longer prescribe it to anyone. She said she used Zyban, and had no issues, and did quit.

Ricardo

I think your problem is that you don't want to quit. Deep inside you have not made the decision. Once you do that, it is actually not that difficult.

Best of luck.

jflail2

Holy cow, Chantix sounds AWFUL!

There is something to be said for the will power portion as well. I haven't had a smoke in nearly a month now, and the worst is over. I actually only used the patch for 2 weeks, and then went off of determination from there. One of the biggest helps to me has been completely changing my lifestyle. I try to stay busy every night and all weekend so I don't think about them as much. Honestly, if I had tried to quit 6 months ago it probably would have been epic fail. I was truly ready to quit when I did, which I think is half the battle.

Stick with it William. It WILL eventually stick if you put enough effort into it. I'd recommend exercising daily as soon as you quit so you can see/feel the physical improvement as you stay quit longer.

hearingimpared

WilliamM2 wrote: »

I actually wanted him to prescribe Chantix, it has a higher success rate, but his receptionist told me that she had tried it herself, had nightmares, suicidal thoughts etc. She said the effects lingered for 6 months after she quit taking it. She told me everyone they had prescribed it to had some type of issue with it, so they no longer prescribe it to anyone. She said she used Zyban, and had no issues, and did quit.

Sorry William my mistake I was thinking of Chantix. My wife and a couple of friends tried Chantix and it made her and them really crazy.

Ricardo is right though. Make the commitment and it becomes easy. I quit for three years after smoking for 40 years and I never felt better. I had just decided to quit and used nothing to help and was successful but I gained a lot of weight.

But now woe is me as the addiction is even worse the second time around.

Huck344

One of the side effects of Zyban is that it will make you happier. Doctor prescribed it to me a few years ago to help quit smoking. It curbed my smoking urge, but not to the point that I stopped smoking. But I don't think I had honestly decided I wanted to quit. Even if it's not as powerful, I would take Zyban over Chantix any day. I'd rather have to use a little will power and be happy, than have no urge whatsoever and want to whack myself!

hearingimpared

Keiko wrote: »

I tried Zyban and had hallucinations.

I thought that was your normal state of mind!:D:p