Have you tried champix to stop smoking? -

Have you tried champix to stop smoking? -

i have been given champix by my doctor and i suffer graves disease which causes palpitations,has anyone taken champix with little side effects as i always worry about taking tablets because of this.It-s Champix in Canada.
Cigarette smoking is more dangerous than Champix to you in terms of aggravating Graves Disease. Talk to a pharmacist before you fill the prescription and pay for it. Pharmacists are the experts on medications and they are very helpful.
I have seen more confirmed smokers quit on Champix than any other pharmaceutical smoking cessation product, and I mean smokers who have smoked for 40+ years. The ones who haven-t succeeded have told me they simply were not ready to quit.
Good luck, it-s a good medication.I personally don-t trust any quit smoking method that deals only with physical nicotine addiction. Chantix especially because it is potentially dangerous also. I personally wouldn-t go near the stuff. Some of the side effects I have heard include, headaches, nausea, stomach pains and the most frequent side effect, nightmares.

I am not trying to scare you, I just think you should do a lot of research before you pop any of those pills.

Smoking is more of a psychological addiction than a physical one. If you really want to quit you must discover the reasons why you smoke and then eliminate or change these thought processes. As soon as I dealt with my psychological reasons for smoking I quit, first time and more importantly for good.

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You can also download our free book -36 Powerful Superfoods- to help fight weight gain and start mending damage caused by smoking.It-s Chantix, first of all, and smoking is a way worse medicine than Chantix would. You might want to look up the side effects to cigarettes, and then Chantix.
Chantix does not cause death, even if you do have a 785.1 on the ICD 9.i smoked for 24 years (pack a day) and couldnt believe this wonderful medication that the doctor gave me - i have completed the 3 months on champix (yes champix, called this in every country except in the U.S they call it chantix!) this is my 2nd week off it, and i have not had a cig for over 3 months! to me the side effects were - nausia, this would occur just after swollowing the pill if i didnt have it with food, and bizarre dreams that you remember very clearly, i did get moody (but i am a moody person anyway)
i think champix improved my health 100% and for that - how bad can it be! you have to out weigh the pros and cons - smoking will kill you!
Good luck it is a long and stressful journey - but one that is well worth it! (i could feel benefits after just 2 weeks of not smoking)

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How can you stop smoking? -

How can you stop smoking? -

I really want to stop smoking but I cant seem to stop any ideasGood question...It means you are ready to stop smoking. Try nicotine patches or nicotine gum. The addiction to smoking is mainly due to the craving for nicotine. Although the habit of putting the stick to your mouth contributes. Set goals for your self of when you expect to stop completely. Try reducing the number of sticks per day. Avoid peers or friends who smoke and/or drink.EASY BRO. I QUIT A 100 TIMES. LOLI haven-t had a single stick of cigarette for more than 2 years now. Well, that-s because I got sick (flu) one day. Flu went on for 3 days (w/o smoke). I decided to challenge myself for not smoking again for another 3 days. That made it 6 days! One the 7th day, I challenged myself not to smoke for one whole week! It actually worked.
This will really depend on you now. Be dedicated. Withdrawal symptoms will get in the way, but hey! I survived! You can too!!! KEEP YOURSELF BUSY WITH WHAT YOU LIKE BEST!!!
Good luck!nothing really seemed to help me at first..but i find that going to the gym/exercising reguarly and swimming helps alot

also, if you feel like a cigarette, have some gum instead. I guess everyones different, but this method worked for me :)

good luck!

ps: willpower also needed!WILL POWER , you shud ask this question to urselfTalk to your doctor, pharmacist or your county health department. They all will have ideas to help you. The biggest thing is not to do it alone. Best wishes.2 days stopped should be your target.

After that you have no nicotene in your system and its so much easier.

The best way to get over the intial cravings is to have a quick nap(15-20mins).When you wake up you wont feel like a fag.I did the shotgun approach. I didn-t expect to ever be able to stop. this worked easily the first time. I have no doubt this is the best approach because it literally uses everything. I literally went from nearly 2 packs a day to quitting overnight

1. Get a prescription for Zyban. It really helps. You will need to start 1 to 2 weeks b4 you quit.
2. Use the patch as a constant substitute.
3. Also use the gum when the cravings get bad.
4. Use the Oral spray the first few days. You can only use it a couple of times a day, but it is fast and as strong as a cigarette.

Quit smoking first. Then quit the oral spray. then the patch. Then the gum and Zyban.

Also:
5. Pick a time when you are away from people. They won-t want to be around you. You won-t want to be around them.
6. Find something busy to do the first week or so. I had it easy - I was unpacking from moving - I had a thousand decisions an hour to make. AN equivalent would be to pick up some plastic storage bins and sort/pack every posession you have. Another would be to create scrap books of every picture and nick nack you have.
7. While you are waiting for the 2 weeks for the Zyban, try a few short trial periods. This helps prepare you for what is to come. This also gives ytou achance to try the above in different amounts to see how much they will help. I also used this to try some other techniaues - for example, I found cherry menthol cough drops and nasal spray helped with the withdrawl symptoms.
8. Search the web. There is tons of good info. I searched to develop this system.
9. After you quit, keep the gum - everywhere. In the car. In your luggage. In your desk. Anyplace you go a lot. If you ever get an urge you can-t deny, it is better to go for the gum than start smoking again.

Make your 1st target to just quit smoking. As my doctor said, he didn-t care if I chewed gum for the rest of my life, it was still far better health wise and financially than smoking. I found that eliminating the rest was easy compared to smoking.

Even with this - using everything - there was a few hours where it was excruciatingly painful - but as they say, by the 3rd day it was a cakewalk (in fact by the end of the 1st day it was nothing using the above).

Be ready - this approach is expensive. The gum is about $0.25 a piece. The patches are about $1 a day. Zyban is about $2 a day. The oral spray, which is just to get you thru the first couple of days, is about $30. Over a month I think it cost me about $200 total.

You can try some other gimmicks, but statistically they are no more effective than cold turkey (accu punctue, hypnosis, etc.).

There are some other approaches that are more effective but they are extremely expensive (ex lasers, aversion therapy (think clockwork orange)).

If this doesn-t work, save up some bug bucks and go for in house aversion therapy. Like it said, think of the movie -Clockwork Orange.- It is extreme. It is expensive. it is nearly 100% effective.

Good luck.I smoked for 12 years. I dont care what people say it is in your head. You need to realize that the only real benfit is that it cures bordom or gives you something to do. I quit cold turkey after 12 yearsTry to visualize how disgusting the whole habit is. I mean there is a reason that people die from smoke inhalation. It ruins your insides, your outsides, everything. SPend some time with someone who has smoked for a long time and you will see the visual and health effects... you want that? What do you want more? LIFE or smoke? I just don-t get the whole smoking thing? Who ever thought of sitting around and inhaling smoke with poison and toxins? HUH? THink about the purpose? What purpose? You can always tell a smoker in a crowd, they are usually the one that-s a lesser class citizen... dirty,I just quit 9 days ago. I went and got some of the 2mg nicotine gum and over the period of 2 months tried to quit by using it as a substitute. Well 9 days ago I started chewing the gum about, again, but this time just kept with the gum. after about 3 days I dropped the gum. so i quit. I-m happy about it, feel the pain in my chest not really there anymore. I think either Marlboro is using cheap tobacco or they are putting something in it -cause i had got a pretty bad cough and the smokes didn-t taste right for the last 6 mos. good luck,, buy the big box of gum because it-s probably gonna take awhile be for you get it done. C.Easy. Stop buying cigarettes. Worked for me. Have some will power.Nothing but a strong will power and a committment to some one very special.

I was a compulsive smoker 1979-2004 June. Almost a chain smoker. Made several birthday and NewYear resolves to reduce/ stop smoking- would spring back to the usual or more within weeks.

Finally, my very unwell Dad (God rest his soul in peace) asked me to quit smoking as the only thing he had ever asked me in life. Took me a few minutes- crushed all cigarettes-threw them and lo...

yes, the first few hours, days and weeks were difficult. But I had a reason- a committment to my dearest and most revered Dad. Two months It tried to come back. I still miss smoking occasionally. But, what the heck! a committment is a committment n that too to ur own Dad.cold turkey is best you really don-t want to get another addiction while trying to get rid of one. GOOD LUCK I-LL BE PULLING FOR YOUPlease see the webpage for more details on Smoking - tips on how to quit.

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How do I get my mother to grow up? -

How do I get my mother to grow up? -

She still acts like a teenager. She recently lost her job and now depends on me and my sisters to support her. She has some friends of her own but they are a bad influence on her and try to get her to go out and party all the time, she drinks every night and still smokes pot at the age of 46. Every time she tryes to get a new job they make her take a drug test and she fails and blames it on them!! I dont know what to do she is a hippy who refuses to grow up I want her to take controle of her life stop smoking and drinking and become a productive member of society. Please help me help her I dont know what to do any more!!!! By the way I am sorry about the spelling I am wrighting this fast and didn-t check it with spell check. Thank you!I know this sounds mean but if you and your sisters quit helping her she will have to get control of her life. If she drinks every night, she may be an alcoholic, and needs to get help for it. Everyone knows practically every place drugs tests, and she knows she won-t pass. You are being used. Quit helping and she-ll have to get her life on track.Tell her that Santa Claus isn-t real. That should shake her world upside down.call DR PHIL.. your mother needs a wake up call. maybe both you and your sisters should move out. make her get herself together. if she can-t afford the house then sell and split the money.. if you - sisters keep supporting her she will never grow up .. why would she? she has you guys to support her. it is called enabling .I know this will sound mean but it usually works, move out, you-re the kid here, you need to talk to her, say mom I love you but enough is enough, tell her to clean up her act or your out, don-t just say it do it.
Have you ever seen the show * Intervention * you-re mom sounds like she may need something like this. Good luck with this.Sounds like my sister, also 46! Her marriage broke up because she was cheating on her hubby and he got sick of it, got hisself a trucker job and he did the same, took off to NY with a hooker and divorced my sister. The past 15 years she-s been with every Tom, Dick, Harry, and Moby! She dates all races, which is not a big deal anymore but she was with this black man who we all fell in love with, such a sweet man, great for her and welcomed into our family with open arms, He truely loves her, what does she do? Yeah, tonight she got caught with a piece of s hit guy who isn-t worth a piece of s***! Plus the one she got caught with tonight is old enough to be our Dad! 46 and she still hasn-t learned! I feel your pain, she-s not a hippy but she-s defently a hoe, sister or not! Don-t feel alone in your anguish, I-m right along with ya!huh I dunno wish I could helptell her *** off dont support her and let her feel the blow of what shes doing to her selftell her, and keep on telling her. Let her know exactly how you feel about it. Pray for her.

God blesswhat about your dad?Wow!!! That-s tough. Maybe you and your sisters should form an intervention. Find someone in your community that specializes in mediating interventions and can help you and your sisters arrange some help for your mother. It sounds like your mom may need to spend some time in a rehab facility to get herself back to normal. You and your sisters need to come together on this and be the parents and that is always the toughest thing to do. You are going to have to make some tough decisions and that is where a mediator can help you and your sisters to cope. I have attached a link that may help. Good luck.leave her alone, you will never change anyone but yourself.
consider moving out.Can you talk to any other family members about your mom ?
How old are you and your sister, that mom depends on you to support her ?
Do you live at home ?
Your mother needs help, bad, you might need to take drastic measures to get her help.maybe she just needs time and to find God... he can always help!You will learn that there is no way you can force change on anybody. The best you can do is to sit down, tell her that you love her but that you are worried and tell her why. Ask her to get some help, and offer to help her get through whatever she is going through. Obviously she is hurting or she wouldn-t be doing what she is doing. Could be just pure fear of aging. But that is really all you can do. If she doesn-t respond, then that is that.do to her as she done to you when u was a teenager!Well, it-s not fair that jobs won-t hire someone who smokes pot now and then. Fortunately, I-m from in a free country where my rights are not violated for Walmart greeter jobs, so I am allowed this attitude. It-s sad that your mother doesn-t have a lot of education, so that she can get better jobs that don-t require drug testing in America. Did she sacrifice her education to take care of you and your sister?

People who drink and smoke pot can certainly be productive members of society. Don-t be prejudice or blame your mothers recreational activities on that. It-s your mothers lack of education that has got to her.

Did it happen that she stayed home to take care of her children? Did she get pregnant young? Did she marry young? Often when women marry young, have babies too soon or stay at home experience a mid life crisis of sorts when their children become adults. She may feel like she is finally free and can now live her life or experience the things she missed out on because she had children.

Anyways, what can you do? Since you pretty much hate your mother and are completely ungreatful for the things she-s done for you, such as support you as a child, you can just cut her off financially and stop talking to her. She-ll be forced to work here and there to support herself and to enjoy a well deserved party now and then.Stop supporting her and the bad habits. Explain to your mom if she does not get herself together you can no longer support her!I guess the answer to this one could go a couple of ways. If you and your sisters are under age 18 you could call the police on her for her illegal activities that might wake her up. Or if over 18 you could move and then mom would have to take resonsibility for herself. You could also go on Dr. Phil or something and get help from there. She probably is trying to relive some lost childhood or something and she should not rely on her children to take care of her. Also I know she is your mother and you love her but as long as you continue to support her and take care of her you are only hurting her not helping her alcoholics anonomyos has places where family members can go to get help being in situations just like yours good lucktell her she has a sad life.This is not a matter of growing up. Its a matter of understanding - your unconditional love to your mother. She seems so lost - lonely. Have you ever talk to her..a heart to heart talk?..
Good luck - God bless your way.

How do I get my mother to grow up? -