07-15-2015, 11:15 AM
(07-15-2015, 11:06 AM)Stewy Wrote: Right mindset and/or right reason to quit, but the most important thing is that you have to want to quit.
My wife tried to quit for years, basically on and off from High School till 3 years ago. She was never a heavy smoker, and she would quit for several months at a time, but she always went back. Once she became a nurse, she found that many of the hospitals around Houston refuse to hire nurses who smoke so she decided to quit and went to our Primary Care Doc for assistance. She did the Chantix and had some bad side effects. He then switched her to something else and she's been off cigs for 3+ years now. She's slowly taking less and less of whatever it is she's on. She should be off it within the next year or so. Our insurance covers most of the cost, so it isn't a big financial commitment.
Summary: If you have issues quitting, and have tried and failed to quit permanently, take the drugs. While the above quoted testimonials are well and good and very admirable, they are however, extraordinary. Most smokers can't quit cold turkey and on the first shot. Nicotine is an awful/awful drug.
Yeah, I should have emphasized that not everyone can just quit cold turkey. Everyone is different. But with or without the drugs/aids you still have to have the right mindset/reason/desire or you will go back. I can't tell you how many different methods one friend of mine has tried. He has gone for as long as a year without them. But no matter what he tries he goes back because he likes to smoke. He was in a medically induced coma for about 4 months. There was no nicotine in his system after that, none. He had an opportunity for a fresh start. He's back up to about two packs a day.
