Topic: Do you want to quit smoking ??

[Dennis]

I used wellbutrin to quit smoking and it worked.   .......
I will testify that the wellbutrin should be a last resort, ......... although I did not act on any of the impulses to kill every breathing creature I encountered I felt ready to do so at any moment and that effect lingered awhile after quitting the medication ........

 

I have heard of this drug being used to help people quit smoking but I wonder if this behavior is really a side effect of the drug.  Or is it from the nicotine withdrawal that you were going through? 

[mrbreeze]

I used wellbutrin to quit smoking and it worked.   .......
I will testify that the wellbutrin should be a last resort, ......... although I did not act on any of the impulses to kill every breathing creature I encountered I felt ready to do so at any moment and that effect lingered awhile after quitting the medication ........

 

I have heard of this drug being used to help people quit smoking but I wonder if this behavior is really a side effect of the drug.  Or is it from the nicotine withdrawal that you were going through? 

Yep....thats what us inquiring quitters want to know!!!

[Dennis]

Yep....thats what us inquiring quitters want to know!!!

It's interesting that Welbutrin is an antidepressant that was somehow determined to help people quit smoking. It's hard to comprehend an antidepressant which has a potential side effect of violent behavior.
BTW, I don't recall of hearing of this as a side effect of Welbutrin, however there is no substitute for your doctors advice. You might want to chat with your pharmacist before seeing the doctor, they are very knowledgable.

Congratulations to all of you who are now non-smokers. Best of luck to those of you planning to try to quit.
Some of you may know that I have previously written about my personal encounters with smoking here, which I will not repeat. It was not a pleasant part of my life. If anyone is interested I'm sure that a search will locate those comments.

[Soos]

Welbutrin huh....

I'll have to talk to my doc.

Patches didn't work..
Gum helped, but didn't work for me...
Quit cold turkey once for 4 years.... then too much stres one day, and i started again....
i told myself... just one.... yeah. right.

l8r

[750goes]

Cold turkey - lying in a hospital bed for a week - not allowed to get up - solved my problem - but I was a real nasty bastard to all the doctors and nurses who came anywhere within throwing distance - or who would stay and listen to me pleading to get up and have a smoke on the balcony....mongrels would not listen...

Now cured - I think...........still a nasty bastard though....

[mrbreeze]

Yeah....thats another thing I thought of.....Am I gonna turn into a crabbier GHOF than I already am? I think the part of wanting to quit comes into play here. The pills,patches,gum,etc. is to let you down easy but you still gotta have the desire to quit. That willpower thing means you gotta stick to your guns and follow your program.You must be able to get back to most things but keep in mind that you are doing it without the smoking part. After a meal,first thing in the morning,out with friends partying,etc.,etc..... If its easier to not go around your old smoking surroundings....great. I might do it that way at first but eventually, I will go to a social function where smoking occurs and it won't bother me. Not in a smoke filled room or where people will be blowing smoke around me.

[Serenity]

I'd perhaps try and maybe do it without the drug wellbutrin , it does carry side effects and isnt good with underlying health or heart problems, please read this first...

http://www.drugs.com/wellbutrin.html

[upperlake04]

So , are you  saying that quiting smoking will turn normally good-natured people into cranks? 

[heffay]

YES...now stop asking DUMB questions!   

haha... funny... you can laugh now

[upperlake04]

     Hang in there big guy!

[Dennis]

So , are you  saying that quiting smoking will turn normally good-natured people into cranks? 

Like taking candy away from a 5 year old kid 

[sparty]

My father, an ex-Marine, quit smoking about 18 years ago when I was in high school.

Being a D.I. he was already plenty strict and "mean".  When he quit smoking, his fellow D.I.'s said that he became the devil's best friend.  So mean that more than the normal few recruits didn't make it through basic.

Today, my father can't stand the smell of cigarette smoke.  He never craves the nicotine, which seems strange.  A year or two after he quit smoking, he jacked up some dude for lighting a smoke near him and blowing the smoke in his general direction.

His doctor told him that his lungs are as pink as a new born baby's.  100% healthy.

Good Luck Guys and Gals it is a wise decision.

Sparty

[ieism]

Well I quit 5 months ago. Went from 1 1/2 packs a day to 0.

The worst side-effect, something that is often overlooked, is increased productivity. While at work, I used to take a smokebreak about 15 to 20 times a day for a few minutes each. No that I've stopped, I can get so much work done in a day that I have to come in later to stay on schedual. 

[Einyodeler]

The 3 o`clock people 

[toycollector10]

Don't bother reading this post if you have no intention of quitting.

I quit for 6 years back in the 80's. This is how I did it.

1st week, smoke as many as you want but because your smokes are wrapped up in 3 sheets of A4 and bound by 4 rubber bands you have to get to them. Can get embarrassing in public, but you can smoke anytime if you want to.

2nd week, smoke as many as you want but same as above but you have to write down when, where and the level of craving you have. That is pretty tiresome but you can see a pattern taking shape.

3rd week, analyse the 2nd week and try and avoid the "must have" smokes. You are still wrapping and unwrapping and you will see that without even trying you will have cut consumption by at least two thirds or so.

4th week, start quitting in earnest......it worked for me and was surprisingly easy.

I quit this time by going cold turkey. No patches or gum. I was trying to rid my system of nicotine not trying a different delivery method. Good luck.

[MrZxp]

Had my last cigarette on 20 May 1999.

Went "cold turkey" - sucked on boiled lollies for a couple of weeks whenever I had the craving for a smoke! 

Was amazed by how much I'd been missing out on with the return of taste and smell... I can definitely recommend quitting!

Cheers, Phil

[TwoTired]

When I quit for the last time, I used the One Step At A Time cigarette filters.
http://www.quitsmoking.com/onestep.htm

This gradually reduced the nicotine levels in my body and lessened the physical impact of total cessation.  Still, it took three days for the physical addiction to be overcome.  The mental or Phsycological "addiction" is much easier to fight after those three days.  It helps a great deal if you can change your routine temporarily to avoid as many things as you can where you would have had a cigarette.  For example while using the filters I noted when I would routinely light up.
On the phone.
In car on commute.
With coffee.
Work breaks.
Etc.

I timed the filter schedule so the last cig was the night before a three day weekend where I could easily eliminate many of the smoking "triggers" that were work related.  By the next workday where many of the "triggers' couldn't be avoided, the physical cravings were over, and only the mental cravings remained.  Then it was one day at a time until the smell of smoke eventually became irritating and abhorant.
I remember the breakup of the thickened mucus layer in my throat and wind pipe was further reassurance that my general health was improving.

I have no regrets and feel the "relatively" short ordeal was well worth the rewards.

Also, I think the money I saved on cigarrettes, easily paid for all my motorcycles, if not more.

Best wishes,

[jtb]

Martha and I quit in 92.  I figure if I hadn't, I'd be dead by now.  I feel much better than when I smoked, and the doc tells me my lungs are great.  Cigarettes were about $15.00 per carton, then and we were buying at least 3 a week.  Damned if I know where the money went, though.

Anyway, good luck to all of you who are quitting.  We're pulling for you.

[Jonesy]

I guess I did the best thing... I never started. I tried smoking and it didn't do anything for me.

I guess the only smoking I do is when I follow behind my wife's CB360 (the darned thing still runs rich..)

Good luck, guys. You'll be better for it.

[Soos]

Old post I know....



But I FINALLY quit.
I got a 'script for welbutrin, and quitting was REALLY easy compared to the last time I tried!
No nasty biting peoples heads off, no tantrums, no intense cravings.

The one thing I noticed is a urge to do something with my mouth and hands.
SO I started chewing gum, and for my hands I tried twirling a pen back and forth when the urges came up.


The first day.. not too bad, lots of urges to smoke though.
Second day, just a few times I felt like having a smoke.
Third day, no real urge.
I made it past the 3 day hump without even yelling at anyone, or biting their heads off.
MY wife says I was a bit more tense than normal though, but NOWHERE near what I did when I would try cold turkey, or even by reducing the amount I smoked to nearly nothing and then going cold turkey.




Now to quit the welbutrin.
In time i guess.



l8r

[mrblasty]

Let me be the first on the board to congratulate you. I'm sure the doc told you not to suddenly quit welbutrin.  Good luck, I'm still smoke free thanks to that drug, I quit sept. 2005.

[toycollector10]

Hi Soos, talk about raising a dead-thread.

Congratulation on quitting and I hope you see it through. That nicotine, "It's a hell of a drug"...

I started that thread and had completely forgotten about it. And as I type...

12,855 smokes left in the packet
$6427 NZD not spent
2 years 4 months 5 days not smoking and
19700 hours being smoke free.

And to replace the habit I took up walking up on the hills behind the great city I live in. Three times a week I'm up there for about and hour and twenty minutes up hill and down dale.

To be sickeningly honest I'm feeling bulletproof at the moment, but as they always say, that's the time you're going to have an "event" so I don't crow about it too much....no, yeah, too much!!

[Soos]

I quit once for 4 years, and a moment of weakness(stress) took me back to the smoking habit.
I fully intend on not ever smoking again.


Figures, nicotine kills more people than illegal drug OD's, yet it's ok to sell tobacco...
IMO because the Gvt. can tax the bejessus outta it.




thnx all,


l8r

[winnipeg550guy]

Welbutrin huh....

I'll have to talk to my doc.

Patches didn't work..
Gum helped, but didn't work for me...
Quit cold turkey once for 4 years.... then too much stres one day, and i started again....
i told myself... just one.... yeah. right.

l8r

 I've been free from cigarettes coming on 16 years now, at the time I was driving truck and hanging at about a pack a day. Smoking went hand in hand with everything, fishing = smoking, drinking = smoking, driving = smoking, waking up in the morning = smoking etc etc. The time came when I could really feel it affecting my health. The method I used to quite overnight? Laser acupuncture. I was shocked how well and how fast it worked for me and back then it cost me $75.00.
 It worked for me.

[Uncle Ernie]

Nothing is as strong as the power of denial.
I started smoking a long time ago- that's almost 50 years of smoke...
Crap.  I quit for a year and all I could think of was cigarettes and coffee.  Nothing smelled any better- what the heck is that about?  Sounds weird, actually.

Well... I guess I need to give it another shot. 
Reminds me of the guy at the doctor's office;
"Ernie- you NEED to give up the wine, women, and song!"

Ernie thinks and a tear comes to his eye.  "Gee.  I sure did like to sing..."