For all the smokers that want to be ex-smokers

adlwilmot

I'm so sorry about your grandfather, it's so hard to lose someone.
It's funny that we all know how bad smoking is, but sometimes it takes looking death in the face to actually make us do something about it.
I'm sure that if your grandfather knew that he paid the price for your longer, happier, healthier life, it would make him happy.

Thank you. It just came as such as shock, as all eyes had been on my grandmother and we had no idea Grandad was on his last few days. x

Hellbent_Heidi

I just want to say one thing about Chantix. While I know for a fact that it works for some people, others (like me) have horrible interactions with this drug. I took it for almost a week, and while I was really enjoying the vivd dreams I was experiencing and the fact that I wasn't smoking as much by the end of that week, I became very suicidal.

One night, I was secretly planning on taking a gun to my head .A friend of mine sensed something was wrong and he refused to leave my house that night. He made me keep my bedroom door open so that he could see into the room at all times. He waited until I was sleeping before he allowed himself to go to sleep on the couch (which has a straight shot into my bedroom). If he hadn't been there, I am sure I would have followed through with my insane decision to take my own life.

This is just food for thought. If anyone decides to go this route, please, please keep an eye on yourself. If you feel off and are having any suicidal thoughts, stop taking it immediately! I was stupid enough at the time to not realize it was the Chantix and not me. If you know anyone using Chantix, keep your eye on them and look for weird behavior and signs and ask them how they are feeliing. Who knows? You may end up saving their life like my friend did mine.

WOW...so glad your friend was there and listened to his intuition!
I tried Chantix and while I didn't feel suicidal, I did have completely psychotic dreams. In one, I had killed and chopped up a random stranger, and it felt SO real that when I woke up, I was crying so hard that I was almost hyperventilating, and was ready to go turn myself in to the police and tell them what I did! It took a while to realize (and convince myself) that it hadn't really happened.
Be VERY careful with Chantix! Some people have no issues with it, but its really powerful stuff.

kylee_marie

I am on Day 5... cold turkey! i have tried to stop in the past, including using chantix and it just made me sick. i would have crazy dreams and then be naseous all day. cutting back method never worked for me because i would never make it down to 0! so far so good, even with this week being hell at work... so i am ready for a relaxing, smoke free weekend!

loriannmartin

congrats keep it up... it is hard but it can be done... i am a former X smoker... bad one as well... despies the smell of it on people... my hubbys idea to quit but yet he didnt quit,,, the smell is a BIG TURNOFF.... good luck

lori

Shishkeberry

Bump for the late night crowd.