Time to get REAL!

Have any of you heard of a new drug called "Chantix"????????
Just thought, since my life is so "balanced" right now, I'd quit smoking as well :eek:
J/K, I HAVE to quit by no later than next friday to facilitate my healing process in my back surgery (not to mention the copd)
My doctor will absolutely not operate unless I quit and....I don't blame him.
I know that I am used to not smoking when needed (long airplane flights,.....drives me nuts lol), had even quit for 3 months when child was baby (I know, not great but have NEVER smoked anywhere near her, only outside)
This time, I have to quit or not only do I run the risk orf my healing getting screwed up, but, like my father........I will die from it.
Don't mind the dying so much but...........what an awful way to go!
Any-hoo, my dr., therapist, friends, all say that this one yields better results than all the others put together.
I started yesterday on it. You do not need to change "your routine" for 7 days, allowing time for this drug to get into your system.
I will admit it, smoking is my weakness, started at age 10 (sweet kid I was)........that is 37 years:confused:
I am not proud and for a rather tough woman (that would be me :rolleyes: ), this has got to be the worst feeling of weakness I have ever dealt with in myself!
Anyone else???

How has it worked for you?

I know of doctors who have told their patients they won't operate on them unless they quit because the anesthesia is harder to regulate in a smoker. Yeah you might die - on the operating table!

I'd be reluctant to quit smoking using any kind of a drug as a substitute right now. That could also have a "****tail" effect that could affect the anesthesia and the outcome of the procedure.

I know a few people who have had great success by using the drug.

Its like anything else, you also have to really want to quit yourself.

"the easy way to guit smoking" alan carr
title is something like that
can be downloaded from the internet...
i will get the link tomorrow..remind me ;)

how i quit...2 packs a day for 40 years. what FINALLY hit home, all the reasons "why" i smoked...bogus. cigarettes changed nothing....

Working in a pharmacy I fill this drug like 10 times a day the only problem that I've seen from it is it not being covered by insurance. Other than that I haven't heard anything about it and most of the people don't even take it because it's crazy expensive. But we keep getting it and I keep filling it so it must be doing something. Good luck.

The pulmonologist who volunteers at my clinic is having great success with this drug in his private practice. It effects the satiety centers in the brain.

The reason your surgeon wants you to quit (besides the obvious) is that patients who have back surgery and smoke have a much higher incidence of failure than those who don't. Smoking directly effects bone healing.

I used to be an orthopedic nurse. I saw failures in bone healing again and again with smokers.

If you really love yourself, STOP IT. It's not about will power, it's not about addiction. In the end, it's about loving yourself enough to take care of yourself.

I know, cuz that's how I quit after 25 years of smoking. And that was 15 years ago. I tried the patch, I tried the gum, I tried hypnosis, I tried stop smoking clinics...I tried everything.

One day, I said to myself: If I really love myself, why am I putting all these nails in my coffin, day after day?

That's the day I smoked my last cigarette.

Do I still want them, miss them, crave them, and wish I could still smoke? HELL YES!!!!!!!!

But I love being on the planet more. I love my daughter and my granddaughter more. I love myself more than cigarettes.

DO IT. DO IT. YOU CAN!!

Working in a pharmacy....


Do you have access to any heroin??? :bgrin2: :D :tongue2:

LOL, morphine, no heroin here.
I got the script filled and started taking it then all hell broke loose in my life.
I know what you all are saying and I KNOW that the cigs don't fix a thing.
I do have a new quit date.......just trying not to beat myself up over losing the battle this time..........I WILL do it.
I hear what your saying Kat, this is why I really wanted to succeed. I had quit for about a week before and during my surgery.
Then, well........you know the story.
Yes, this pill is very expensive and, your right Jen, it is not covered by insurance.......but if it helps, it is worth every dime.
Blessings, TD

Morphine - yow... I have bad memories of that myself (was given it after one of my many surgeries). Boy did that ever do a number on me! I'll never take that again, that's for sure.

Hey, I just saw something last night - some famous actor gave up smoking after two sessions with a psychiatrist who gave him .. is it called sodium pentathol? (truth serum)

Wow "N",
Not sure how that would work to quit smoking but I will ask my Dr. about it.
I am almost off having to take the morphine these days.......my back is doing so much better.
For me, I got so sick on all the pain meds that they tried to give me before getting the morphine. I mean really sick........sweating profusely, major migraines, vomiting,.......it was awful. Especially right after surgery when it would kill me if I even coughed.
Right now I will take a morphine pill only if I have a really bad day and/or over did it. Other than that, I take one vicodine in the mornings just to cope with the soreness of getting my broken down body out of bed and maybe another one in the afternoon and that's it.
For an insomniac like me, going to sleep these days is usually no problem unless I am really in pain. Most nights I am not though and have been sleeping just fine.........drug free!
Blessings, TD

Who was the actor who played the hotel owner in the recently released "1408" movie? He's so famous, I just can't think of his name - it's on the tip of my tongue. He's the one that used the truth serum. I'm not sure how that works either, and it's a new procedure that seems to be helping people. He only had to use it twice, he said. I'm guessing that whatever part of your brain that is affected to make you tell the truth is also the same part of the brain at which addictions are created and that somehow the drug affects the two brain processes differently.

I hear you about the pain meds. I can't take anything either. I remember when I had some foot surgery (they had to surgically break my bone and reset it), I was given extra strenth tylenol with codine for the pain and that made me sick (plus it gave me nightmares), so I quit using that and just tried to deal with the pain with plain old extra strength tylenol. But I realized then that pain can knock me out, and as long as I'm passed out and sleeping, I'm not feeling the pain, so it's like a little natural anesthesia system I have going here. Years after that surgery, too, my body came to have a reaction to tylenol - it knocks me out like a sleeping pill! So if I'm ever in excruciating pain these days, I'll take a tylenol (and I only need one), that will knock me out, and I'll get the rest I need to heal, relatively pain free while I'm sleeping.

There was once that I had such a bad pain in my gall bladder area though that I couldn't even sleep, and nothing made me pass out. I just wanted truly to die at that point! I think, looking back, that I may have been passing a rather large gall stone at the time.

I'm going to try and look up that information for you about the truth serum therapy being used to quit smoking.

AND Judge Judy - she recommended the procedure to Jackson:

http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/06/21/samuel_l_jackson_quit_smoking_with_help_

He says he has smoking dreams, but I had those, too. That's not caused by the truth serum. It's a common occurence when you stop smoking. With me, I'd have these amazingly realistic dreams that I had smoked, and I'd wake up thinking momentarily that I had actually beeen smoking. I would be so down on myself because of having broken the string of days I had gone without smoking, very disappointed in myself, and then... I'd realize, "hey! that was a DREAM! I'm still smoke-free! Hallaluia!"

Hey it looks like it's a behavior modification therapy:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9403E1DF143AF931A15754C0A9679C8B 63&sec=health&spon=&pagewanted=print

(maybe that could be beneficial to you in two ways!)

Hmm.. there are 169,000 pages that come up in a google search using key words "quit smoking truth serum"