Quitting smoking: Champix?

Mattty - Really? I have the reverse, the chemical is easy, the physical habit is SO much harder to break...

Only time I managed to give up I used the little inhalor thing- replaces both the nicotine and the "fiddling with something" part of fags.

Lasted four months, then my employer moved my job to Woking, hell-hole that it is.

On that note I'm popping outside for a quick smoke.

Bastard!

over the counter pain killers do a big fat fuck all, the only thing that has any effect is a powerful prescription anti-inflammatory called Diclofenac-sodium

I've been given Diclofenac for my back a few times...they stopped having any effect after a few months....the best thing for me is a mix of over the counter Paramol and Nurofen plus, which gives me a double dose of codeine , plus ibuprofen and paracetamol....although having been on them daily since last september taking up to 12 tablets a day...i dread to think what state my insides are in.

woooo.. i gave up about three years ago cold turkey...also had about six months after that when i smoked a fag approx once a month. now smoking makes me want to vomit, but the smell of others smoking is DIVINE! i miss smoking in pubs, they smell rank now.
The key for me was i didn't want to have to tell everyone i had started again, that i'd let them all down and couldn't do it. Maybe the hardest thing i've ever done?

ouch James, i know what you mean about the pain killers, i fucked my wrist a few years back and damaged the carpel tunnel, which goes at times. Wierdly the only thing that seems to be helping my migraines is the prescribed concution of blood restricting/thinning and anti deps... odd, but a fag would be so, so nice....

Yeah I had pretty major crush injuries from where the dashboard was wrapped around me up past my waist, that later turned into compartment syndrome, which then turned into me needing an operation to save my lower right leg, the main artery got constricted to the point of the blood supply being cut off to the limb, which then caused most of the nerves to die below my knee.
I was numb from about half way down my calf all the way through my foot for just over 2 years, during which whilst the nerves were repairing or whatever I used to get what felt like jolting, electric shocks through my leg, which would sometimes turn into crazy spasms, despite being on shitloads of painkillers already I had a morphine injections on a couple of occasions at a & e after sometimes going nearly 3 days without sleep due to continually waking up from the pain, and that was in between the massive pain I used to get from the trauma to the muscle repairing, walking was extremely painful for around the first 3 years, sometimes it would literally feel like a 20 stone man had been jumping up and down on my leg, and I would have to sit down for a while before I could walk again, i've broken plenty of bones, but no injury I have ever had has compared to this.
So after getting sick of being permenantly high on a huge cocktail of high dosage prescription meds for a couple of years (tramadol, codeine, paracetamol, amitriptyline, diclofenac sodium, and gabapentin, for those that are interested) to keep all this nerve pain etc under control, I took up smoking weed again to help me cope and to take my mind off of that shit, I then gradually cut down as I got better, but old habits die hard ;)

i'm quitting the fags after sunday...i want better lungs so i can be faster!

I've been given Diclofenac for my back a few times...they stopped having any effect after a few months....the best thing for me is a mix of over the counter Paramol and Nurofen plus, which gives me a double dose of codeine , plus ibuprofen and paracetamol....although having been on them daily since last september taking up to 12 tablets a day...i dread to think what state my insides are in.

Yep its shit over any long period of time, I had to kinda cycle on/off it over a couple of years, as your body builds up a tolerance to it really easily, ibuprofen especially is extremely bad for your stomach mate, have you looked into any alternatives?

@ gormley dont do it . smoking is fun.

plus it looks really cool,and your fast enough already. i might even start.

also track training gets in the way of smoking time.

sorry if i missed something.

the "fiddling with something" part of fags.

Steady! and I think they prefer to be called 'The Gays'

Mattty - Really? I have the reverse, the chemical is easy, the physical habit is SO much harder to break...

Don't get me wrong, the physical habit is very hard to break, but it is a matter of willpower: it doesn't have the debilitating effects that the chemical habit does when you're trying to kick it.

Anyways, this is my 10th day off the smokes. But the real test will be when I have a few beers inside me.

tastes great,

smokes mild.

friend of mine has been using an e-cig. Nicotine with water vapour. Tastes like smoking, feels like smoking, looks like smoking but isn't. Proper strange.

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plus it looks really cool,and your fast enough already. i might even start.

also track training gets in the way of smoking time.

sorry if i missed something.

the only thing i want to smoke is gerald on the track!followed by a victory cigar..this will only happen if i quite!

I am on day 3, this is a personal record. The boots own brand nicotine gum is well tasty. I reckon I might do it this time.

good luck rosie

i started for a few months and got bored so given up. i can't see what all the fuss is about :)

Anyways, this is my 10th day off the smokes. But the real test will be when I have a few beers inside me.

Still going strong about 6 weeks in. Have even passed the "being a bit pissed with friends who are smoking" test, which is the hurdle I've usually fallen at in the past.

Good luck to everyone else trying.

The best moment to quit smoking is when you're having a flu + Nicorette chewing gum. It worked for me. Many times.

This just in, my Dad had a heart attack due to Champix. He said he thought the nausea/pain/depression was a result of withdrawl but oh no as soon as he stopped taking the drugs he felt better immediately.

All drugs have some side-effects, the potential side-effects listed on a pack of Panadol would make you think twice about it, you just assume that it's a rare thing and that it's safe. Having done a bit of searching online this anti-smoking wonder-drug seems to have more than its share of horror stories. Steer clear I reckon.

I am on day 3, this is a personal record. The boots own brand nicotine gum is well tasty. I reckon I might do it this time.

good work keep at it, 4 years since I gave up

nobody likes a quitter

I am on day 3, this is a personal record. The boots own brand nicotine gum is well tasty. I reckon I might do it this time.

Careful! I was addicted to Boots own brand for seven years and I never even used to smoke.

I've got through a whole packet already. Still, it's cheaper than cigarettes. Marginally.

Thanks for the good lucks.

I am also trying to quit again after smoking occasionally the past 5 months (I've had microtabs in my bag for a month but haven't used them yet). It was fun smoking again but it does not beat the feeling of being smoke free. The first two weeks are the hardest.

Good luck tricity!