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I know quite a few people that used the electronic one to quit and it really helped. Best of luck to you sweetie

Chantix. Best thing to ever happen to me.

When I was ready to quit, I stopped buying them and used the ecig for 4 months. I stepped down my nicotine level everytime I order cartridges until I was using 0 nicotine cartridges. One day my ecig went through the laundry and wouldn't charge anymore. I never bought another one.

I've had 1 cigarette in the 3 years since I quit. It was a Marlboro Ultra Light and I got nic poisoning from it. My temp shot up, my heart started racing, I got cold sweats, and I threw up Taco Bell nachos all over the bathr oom floor. It's safe to say that my smoking days are over.

^^^ Be careful with Chantix. I've known too many people on Chantix that wanted to start smoking gun barrels instead of cigarettes...

Have you looked at Blu Cigs?
They are electronic cigarettes that have nicotine and water vapor.
They have NO odor, but give you the nicotine that you want. There is no tar and no toxic chemicals.

My fiance just recently started using them. You can get them at Walgreens or online.

Good luck!

I smoked for over 30 years .I finally quit ,I felt so relieved after my first year anniversary came up ,I finally felt free .Do whatever you have to to quit the feeling is wonderful. I waited so long that now I have asthma but it could be a lot worse,I could be dead.I also am surrounded by smokers so that does make things harder but not impossible.Hopefully you will be an inspiration to them !The best of luck to you and never give up you will eventually quit.:bigsmile:

I've heard Chantix works wonders.

I smoked for 4 years, started when I lost someone very close to me.
I tried to quit multiple times but at the end of the day I really didn't want to. I liked smoking, I had no problem doing it, I knew the consequences and health risks but I wasn't afraid to take them. I quit last August cold turkey. I did it for me, because I wanted to do it, I was done smoking and it really wasn't that enjoyable anymore. It felt more weird than anything. You have to have the mindset that you think it's gross and you really don't want to do it. I think that's the best way. When you honestly want to focus on your health and do it for yourself its easy. It's when you're doing it for someone else or a different reason it doesn't work.

That's how it went for me at least! Good Luck!

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not a smoker but honestly if you know something will eventually kill you Isn't that enough motivation to stop..i would rather die from something unpreventable than something you definitely can prevent. however iam speaking from the outside in and know nothing about any addictions, so my advice is good luck hope u can overcome this..

It's not that simple. Quitting cigarettes is seriously more difficult than quitting heroin. The addiction to nicotine is heavily psychological because many people use cigarettes as coping mechanism and "cure-all" for their ails.

Happy? "Let's smoke to celebrate!"
Sad? "I need a cigarette to deal with this."
Upset? "A smoke will calm me down."
Just ate? "Nothing like a smoke after a meal."
Just finished sex? "Pass the lighter, babe."
Just finished running? "Why do cigarettes taste better right after exercise?"

Not to mention that a lot of people are more addicted to the act of going outside and smoking than they are to the actual nicotine.

I smoked a pack a day for over 10 years. I tried everything from acupuncture to Nicorette, etc. Nothing "worked". I'd quit for a few days and then I'd be back again. I never smoked in my house, but I did smoke in the car.

September 2007 - I was able to try Chantix via our smoking cessation program at work. I didn't make it through a whole round, but did use it for a bout 3 weeks. What I noticed the most, is that I DID smoke less, but I wasn't aware of it. There would be times when I'd think, "I'm supposed to be doing SOMETHING". That SOMETHING was smoking. It was very odd. I never quit completely using Chantix, but I cut WAY down. I stopped taking it because it started to upset my stomach. (I have weird, vivid dreams all the time, so that side effect wasn't an issue for me)

October 2007 - Decided to try the Nicotrol Inhaler to help me to cut back. I did smoke a little more after the Chantix, but the numbers of cigs per day were creeping up and I didn't want to lose momentum.

From there: I would use the Inhaler at work. I just basically quit going outside for smoke breaks and would take a hit off the inhaler instead. The thing I liked about the inhaler was that it gave you that instant "first drag buzz" but if you went at it too aggressively it would burn your throat. So, it made it hard to over-do the inhaler.

I also started cutting out ONE cigarette per day, based on the time/instance I'd smoke. The first one I gave up was the one in the car on the way to work. After a week, I was over it. The following week, I gave up the one that I smoked in the car on the way home from work. And so on and so forth. The "first thing in the morning" cig was the last to go.

So, I baby-stepped it. By December 2007, I wasn't even buying cigarettes anymore. When I'd go out with friends, I'd bum one here and there or just use my inhaler.

January 20, 2008 - Some friends took me out to lunch for being their designated driver the night before. After lunch, my friend passed me a cigarette. I smoked it, put it out, and told them not to hold me to it, but I thought that might be my last one. I just KNEW. And it WAS my last one.

I'm a competitive person by nature, so that's when I started counting the days of being smoke-free. With it being the first of the year, others were quitting as well. After a few weeks, I really didn't want to have to start back at day 0 again.

Yes, I wanted them from time to time at first. I just didn't have them. I still kept the inhaler around and baby stepped myself from it as well. At the very end I was only using it when I was drinking. For some people coffee+smoke is bliss. For me, it was beer+cigarette. I remember the time I decided to get rid of the inhaler. We were at the pub and a friend asked if I still used it. I couldn't remember the last time I had, but I still kept it in my purse "just in case". I popped in a capsule, took a big drag, and WHOA. I about toppled over from the buzzy, headachey sensation of reintroducing nicotine to my system. So, that was the end of that.

I really think that Chantix was that little push that I needed. I think everyone is different with respect to what will work for them. Cold turkey never lasted 24 hours for me because that's all I thought about. Doing it a little bit at a time without a "quit date" was less stressy for me and when I was done, I was done.