Life is changing for us, and it is not for a positive reason

[1muttsfan]

You could always bonk him over the head with a frying pan - justifiable homicide?

 

[oldrooster]

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There is a realitvley new pill on the market I think you can smoke with it for the first week of two then no smoking after that had a friend who went on it last year and a year later she is still smoke free and she has had very few urges to smoke and she smoked for something like 40 years.....

 

[shadow rabbit10]

My aunt uses those electronic cigarettes and they work very well for her.

 

[debilorrah]

There is a realitvley new pill on the market I think you can smoke with it for the first week of two then no smoking after that had a friend who went on it last year and a year later she is still smoke free and she has had very few urges to smoke and she smoked for something like 40 years.....

I'm kind of afraid of the side effects of that stuff. Chantix it's called and it is known for some CRAZY side effects. I know people who have used it and it worked and others that felt like they were losing their mind. Mine is already 50% gone, so....

 

[debilorrah]

I wanted to add that we are both doing ok with our chosen methods of assistance in quitting as well. He has Nicotrol and chocolate pudding, I have the ecig and cheese.

 

[Daddas1Punkin]

Glad to hear! My dad uses Nicoret gum and he has cut back a lot! He will be fired if he lights up if he is on the property, on the clock or not. Even if the store is closed! It's ridiculous!

 

[AnotherKim]

LOL. Keep up the good work, Deb. I quit 3 and 1/2 years ago. It was the hardest "quit" I had ever done. I used a site called QuitNet and that really helped. It's good to have people to talk you through things. Plus, they keep track of my quit date down to the minute. It's fun to show that off on my Face Book, lol. Cinnamon gum and Altoids were a life saver for me. The cinnamon gives you the same taste kick that the first cigarette of the day does. It's amazing. Chewing on drinking straws and keeping my hands busy helped a lot too. You have to change all of your habits. I couldn't figure out why I was pacing the room when I talked on the phone, then I realized that that was when I always smoked.I changed the area that I talked on the phone and started texting a lot.

Quiting cigarettes is hard! Did you know that nicotine is more addictive than heroin? I think that getting mad at Big Tobacco is what REALLY made me want to quit. Those guys are no better than drug dealers. They put crap in cigarettes that get us addicted, and do everything they can to keep us addicted. Who wants to support a drug dealer?

Good luck to you two.I know you can do it!

 

[oldrooster]

LOL. Keep up the good work, Deb. I quit 3 and 1/2 years ago. It was the hardest "quit" I had ever done. I used a site called QuitNet and that really helped. It's good to have people to talk you through things. Plus, they keep track of my quit date down to the minute. It's fun to show that off on my Face Book, lol. Cinnamon gum and Altoids were a life saver for me. The cinnamon gives you the same taste kick that the first cigarette of the day does. It's amazing. Chewing on drinking straws and keeping my hands busy helped a lot too. You have to change all of your habits. I couldn't figure out why I was pacing the room when I talked on the phone, then I realized that that was when I always smoked.I changed the area that I talked on the phone and started texting a lot.

Quiting cigarettes is hard! Did you know that nicotine is more addictive than heroin? I think that getting mad at Big Tobacco is what REALLY made me want to quit. Those guys are no better than drug dealers. They put crap in cigarettes that get us addicted, and do everything they can to keep us addicted. Who wants to support a drug dealer?

Good luck to you two.I know you can do it!

I remember an advise columnist (either ann landers or dear abby I can't remember which was in our paper at the time) had someone write in about quitting smoking. A person wrote in a reply and said they used candy canes as a substitute for something in their hands/mouth and that worked for them. The columnist said the where worried about calories and also about tooth rot, which garnered a lot of backlash one letter was printed telling her that there were sugarless versions of candy canes out and even if they used regular ones you could get dentures and to their knowledge you couldn't get artificial lungs yet, made me laugh.......

 

[debilorrah]

Tooth rot is the least of my worries right now. Sugarless candy is a laxative, trust me on that one, and it doesn't taste nearly as good.

 

[oldrooster]

Tooth rot is the least of my worries right now. Sugarless candy is a laxative, trust me on that one, and it doesn't taste nearly as good.

yea that's why I laughed at the advice columnist, I mean a diet and false teeth is an acceptable trade off for not being dead, or on oxygen all the time at least in my opinion.....