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And probably more than a few for myself. :lol:

Tomorrow I start taking Chantix to quit smoking. 20 years, a pack a day the last 10 or so.

With just about everything else I've tried I'm so irritable by the second or third day I can't even stand to be around me, much less anyone else... :shock: :lol:
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I usually combine it with Xanax unless the patient has some good reason NOT to take both.
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Good luck Bro!

Just think about how much more gun money you'll have! :D

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I'm hoping for your success in quitting. From a former smoker, I really hope that you do it. I know that it's hard, I enjoyed smoking from the first one to the last one. I've been tobacco free since 1990. You can do it, you will feel better.
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God is Able, prayin for ya pard. :)
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Toughest thing I ever did, and, it was far from cold turkey....I chomped on that gum for years before I could shake that monkey.....I'm pullin' for ya 8) 8)
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Sending prayers!
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awp101,

If you are really sincere and ask the Father through Jesus to take the tobacco addiction off of you, he will do so.
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Wish ya the best. Been smokin for the better part of 28 years. Been doing the E cigarette thing for the last few months not quite the same as quitting but so much healthier.
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Chewed the gum for a few weeks, after running 28 years of 2 to 5 packs a day. The thing that got me over the hump was figuring the 1000$+ a year back in 1990 would buy me a new rifle every year. Worked. At todays prices that could be a custom rifle a year. Once you get over the hump, tobacco smell will make you sick. That helps keep offf the habit. GOOD: no BEST of LUCK! Rogn
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The cigarettes can go, but life is over when you give up the whiskey and wild, wild women.

It'll drive you crazy, or make you insane.

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Good luck to ya brother. I smoked for many years, a pack a day. I tried several times to quit before I really got serious, and I decided one day I didn't want to do it anymore, and just quit cold turkey. It was tough for a while, but I made it through without killing anyone! :lol:
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UncleBuck wrote:awp101,

If you are really sincere and ask the Father through Jesus to take the tobacco addiction off of you, he will do so.
Prayers offered up for you...
Been doin' that for a little over 6 months now. It's been 3 months or so since smoking quit being enjoyable so I figured I'd better take the hint.
TedH wrote:It was tough for a while, but I made it through without killing anyone! :lol:
With my wife going through menopause right now it would be a dead heat as to who snapped first (no pun intended).

Thanks guys, the thoughts and prayers mean a lot to me... :D
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My biggest problem when I tried to quit several times was the feeling of "OH MY GOD THERE"S NO CIGARETTES IN THE TRUCK" so the last and so far sucessful time(9-11-2004) I bought a pack and velcroed them to the dash. My thought, if I need one it is there,BUT I AIN'T OPENING THE SUMBITCHES., so now it's a matter of willpower and can I get through this craving. After about 6 months they were pretty nasty looking and got thrown out. Prayers for ya! If I can do it you can!
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FWiedner wrote:The cigarettes can go, but life is over when you give up the whiskey and wild, wild women.

It'll drive you crazy, or make you insane.

:wink:
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I quit by going cold turkey but I always carried tobacco and a lighter until I knew I'd won the battle. I found it less of a problem knowing that I could smoke IF I wanted too than knowing that I couldn't.

Good luck with quitting your lungs and wallet will be a lot better off... :wink:
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Prayers Up. Take the money saved and put it tword something You have always Wanted,OR Wanted to Do.
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You are not quitting. You are stopping.

Has your wife discovered progesterone cream? Saved my marriage.
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I stopped smoking 15 months ago. 40 year habit, 1.5 packs/day. I chomped on the gum until my jaws hurt. This was a tough thing to do, but I feel better. Put on a LOT of weight that I now need to start getting rid of...not gonna' be easy.

Good luck to you! You can certainly do it!

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The other thing I did was every week I took $25(the cost of a carton of smokes back then) down to my LGS and put it on account. When I wanted supplies or a new gun, I asked what was in the account and usually got what I wanted from the non smokers fund, and it was just enough of a positive reinforcement to make quitting seem like a good idea.
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Guess I was just fortunate, forgot to buy a pack...a couple of weeks later my wife asked if I quit smoking...thought about it for a second. "Yeah, guess I did", I responded.

That was 'bout fifteen, twenty years ago and never thought that I needed or wanted one. 'Course, never could stand the smell. Now if I could just do that with food...

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Hope it goes well for you, I was always too cheap to smoke. My Dad quit just cold turkey 1 day after 25 years of smoking. I would rather try to give up my guns and reloading than try to quit cigs.
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Best of luck to you.
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Tycer wrote: Has your wife discovered progesterone cream? Saved my marriage.
No but I'll read up on it. She was told she couldn't take hormones due to a blood clot several years ago. I'm pretty sure that's what she heard when what they really said was no synthetic hormones. Either way, she's got it in her head "no hormones".
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I've been told the only thing harder to kick than nicotine is heroin and the PA I spoke with said she'd heard heroin is easier because nicotine is legal and easily available whereas you have to look for or have the right connections for H.
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I pray you can get it done. I quit cigarettes in Jan. of '86. Started smoking Muriel coronellas cigars instead. Didn't inhale the cigars. Pretty soon I quit the cigars because they were gross. Haven't had a cig or cigar since '86. Other than the reward of better health, sense of smell really improves. You'll be able to tell a smoker when they walk in the room from 10 feet away.

Just as an aside.....when I started smoking, I could buy a carton of Winstons for $2.10 at Rose's Dept. store in Charlotte, NC. Used to really tick me off anytime I had to pay 35 cents for a pack out of a machine. Them days are GONE!

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I kicked a couple of nasty habits. Life got better after the smoke cleared, pun intended. No matter how crappy it gets you are doing the right thing for you and your loved ones.

I recently was given a hormone for the big C that turned me into lunatic linebacker! I stayed in the basement and the family stayed up stairs when Dad was on the pills. I must have said "keep your mouth shut and your butt in this chair a hundred times" a day, it worked.
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I weaned my self off baccer over a year ago, I aplaud anyone using any method they choose to get off it.

It was hard for me as I loved it! Pipe and the ocasional cigar and hand rolled.

But it is much better off it than on it. May of put a few ponds on but thats not so bad.

Best wishes and pray.

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Nath wrote:I weaned my self off baccer over a year ago, I aplaud anyone using any method they choose to get off it.

It was hard for me as I loved it! Pipe and the ocasional cigar and hand rolled.

But it is much better off it than on it. May of put a few ponds on but thats not so bad.

Best wishes and pray.

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I hope it's going well! Hang in there!!!

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Stay away from all sugars.
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Thanks again guys.

It's day 4 and for the most part I haven't had the jitters I was dreading. I'm still at a pack a day BUT it's mostly because I have some routines I have to break. I have a habit of going outside to think and smoking "helps".

I didn't expect to see a drastic reduction 4 days in so no blood, no foul. But it's nice to see it's more of a habit than a craving at the moment...
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Prayers up & good luck - you'll need both, and a lot of determination, but it will be worth it.

Just think of all the cash you'll have to spend on guns! :D
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Prayers up.
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