Quitting smoking: Champix?

i gave up and some fncker ^^^^^^^ started me off again

Horatio was there, you know that's a fuckin' lie, Murts...
The John Snow, one late spring Friday afternoon
Murtle: Gimme a fag mumble mumble or I'll just go and mumble mumble buy some at the mumble mumble off license, you mumble mumble cunt...

haha

12 years clean! (f*ck that makes me feel old), couple of cigars at new year but that is about it.

Cold Turkey is the only way. Stop smoking, deal with the pain, don't start again. Simple* :-)

[*Its f*cking hard]

I must try harder, managed to give up completely while away with the boy in South Africa, and for a few weeks after i got back, still not smoking regularly, but everytime i have a few beers find myself bashing fags off anyone in reach.

The booze trigger is the worst, at all other times its easy!

I did hypnotherapy 4 years ago and haven't smoked since. I hear a key sentence like "I'll have another beer" and suddenly I go deaf for a few minutes ;))

Do a google for Max Kirsten as there is some nifo on there about the damage smoking does.

sigh I'm trying to give up the weed, I don't smoke it regularly anymore though, I went nearly 3 weeks without and then last week I shared a joint with a mate, but haven't touched any since.

have found that a small (and im talking tiny, im no big stoner) pipe of an evening stops me from wanting to smoke cigarettes....is that bad? better than fags i suppose

I need to stop reading this thread, it's REALLY making me want a cigarette

Have you gone cold turkey, Rosie?

have found that a small (and im talking tiny, im no big stoner) pipe of an evening stops me from wanting to smoke cigarettes....is that bad? better than fags i suppose

Not at all, ironically thats how I gave up smoking when I was younger, my taking up smoking weed!
I ended up smoking a lot less, but when I did smoke it was always a spliff lol?!
Not sure if thats better or worse......physically maybe better....but mentally?

Have you gone cold turkey, Rosie?

Yep... can't afford gum or anything. Mind you I can't afford cigarettes either so that should solve the problem... and I can't afford food so that should eradicate the risk of weight gain. Hurrah!

Yep... can't afford gum or anything. Mind you I can't afford cigarettes either so that should solve the problem... and I can't afford food so that should eradicate the risk of weight gain. Hurrah!

If it gets tough and you don't think you can make it go to your local chemist, lots of them give away free nicotine replacement stuff now... You don't even have to pay for a prescription at some of them... And I recommend the inhalator, looks like a midget's pipe but really helped me out...

Managed to give up for a few years cold turkey, had a blip a few weeks back with really bad migraines, which has bought back cravings. Wanting a cigarette so badly right now :(

bendix - you can get a huge pack of gum on prescription. like a month's worth for £6.50

a word of warning against nicotine gum, have only ever tried it once but it made my throat close up, my tongue go numb, gave me the shakes and made me want to vomit....and it tasted fucking rank too....if anything will make you head straight back to the fags its that shit!

If it gets tough and you don't think you can make it go to your local chemist, lots of them give away free nicotine replacement stuff now... You don't even have to pay for a prescription at some of them... And I recommend the inhalator, looks like a midget's pipe but really helped me out...

bendix - you can get a huge pack of gum on prescription. like a month's worth for £6.50

Both useful to know, thanks... I'm going to try tea replacement therapy first and see how that goes.

with the gum, i always cut each piece into 3 bits at the moment to ween myself quickly

a word of warning against nicotine gum, have only ever tried it once but it made my throat close up, my tongue go numb, gave me the shakes and made me want to vomit....and it tasted fucking rank too....if anything will make you head straight back to the fags its that shit!

wow that is pretty exciting. I have had it before, it was pretty disgusting and I managed to get addicted to it despite hating it... but it did stop me smoking for a bit.

I feel a bit cheated that I didn't get the shakes though.

I'm going to try tea replacement therapy first and see how that goes.

You know it makes sense! Tea is the sweet giver of life!

+1 tea solves all.

You know it makes sense! Rumtea is the sweet giver of life!

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We need to get in touch with Marlon! :)

Managed to give up for a few years cold turkey, had a blip a few weeks back with really bad migraines, which has bought back cravings. Wanting a cigarette so badly right now :(

The thing that gets me craving a spliff are these pains I get in my leg now and again, my legs got absolutely annihilated in a car crash when I was 17, so there is a lot of heavy scar tissue inside the muscle, and nerve damage to my lower right leg. It doesn't kick in that often, but if I do some kind of activity my leg isn't used to for a long period of time, then it can be absolutely agony, almost to the point of me being unable to walk, and I have an pretty damn high tolerance for pain. Anyways, the point is that 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 (known sometimes as Voltorol), a strong joint, or sitting there and trying to rest it whilst in immense pain.
Sadly very often the Weed is the more easily obtainable alternative, since my legs healed up when I was younger i've hated taking pain killers for anything, I was on such a heavy cocktail of them for nearly two years its pretty much put me off them for life lol.

Nah, just get yourself some sWINe flu, and by the time you're physically able to smoke again, the chemical cravings will already have passed. All that's left is the easy* part of breaking the physical habit.

*not at all easy. but easier than beating the chemical cravings.

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....