Good on you, WG, given your health issues of late, you're one person I'm really pleased for.... I wish you every success in quitting the dreaded smokes and hope that you enjoy increasingly improved health/quality of life as a result.

Same to you, John... to everyone who decided to quit smoking, all the very best and may each of you be blessed with the benefits of being healthier & wealthier due to being smoke free.

The missus and I did it 8 months ago now and we have never looked back... being smoke free is too darned good to consider it, even for a second.

Has a nice ring to it..   

WG.. good luck man.. I'm pullin for ya too

good luck guys

vStyler.........I have heard very good things about Chantix, in fact I know two people who have tried every method under the sun and eventually succeeded with this drug. Here's a link WWW Link

Each smoke free day that you go through gets you one day closer to where you want to be. Keep it up vStyler, you can do it.  

I tried Chantix, but in all honesty, I did not give it my best effort.
My place of employment instituted a smoke free policy on Nov 15. I can only smoke if I leave the property at lunch time.
Now, being forced to quit/cut down just makes me angry and is very counter productive to quitting. I have to WANT to do it or it's not going to work.

Side effects I experienced with chantix...
Gas -   , nasea if I didn't eat before taking it, and FUNKY UNPLEASANT DREAMS.

I will try it again soon, when I can get past the politics of being told what to do by "the man".

Yeah, some of you may have heard about this relating to chantix, WWW Link

I have funky, scary, weird enough dreams already without more help   


Day 2 - Noon - Not a single puff. Still, the most challenging thing I've ever attempted.

Smoke Free Still.  

I have heard some artists say their dreams were an inspiration for some of their work...so maybe here comes some work entitled:

Funky,Scary and Weird Skin

I for one am looking forward to some work like this!

Good Luck vStyler! You can do it!

I went cold turkey after smoking 2 and sometimes 3 packs a day. I lived in Japan where smoking was allowed virtually everywhere and I smoked in the office with my work mates. That's what made me smokin mad. When I moved back to the States I realized that I was out of control and I quit. My son was only three years old then and that was my main reason for quitting.

If you start again try what I did. Go out with your buddies and smoke a whole pack in one night (or more), then sleep with your smoked out smelly bar clothes near you...when you wake up you will never want to smoke again. However, I have never stopped craving a cigarette in the morning with coffee or after a meal to this day (DAMN!!!) and it has been 9 years w/o a smoke.

Also, the smell of a new pack or a new cig still drives me nuts. Buy some running shoes and go for long walks when the urge strikes or you get cranky with people. You'll be walking a lot in the beginning. Cheers, and good luck. f

well, i am going to quit smoking too... i on a perscription called Chantix, my aunt quit smoking using them and she swears by it. Your supposed to start taking the pills before you actually quit and the drug takes away the satisfaction you get from smoking so you don't go through the Nic fits, and the desire to light up goes away. She smoked for about three weeks and continued taking the pills for three months (during the 3 weeks of smoking she dwindled the smoking down and not with will power but because the satisfaction wasn't there anymore.

I wish you the best of luck, been smoking myself for 25 years. I hope we both do it. I started taking the pills yesterday, so i guess we will see what happens.

Make sure you eat before taking - the stomach problems that can come with it can be somewhat severe for some - I found out the hard way yesterday.

We are on it too - so far so good - and for both of us the cravings went away. Now to tackle the psychological side which I am thinking may be the worst of it.

My wife and I are pulling for all of you - and we are appreciative of this thread - it really does help. The first time she came here was after vStyler started it. Now she is finding out about my second addiction (WC).

Me too I need to quit smoking this year

Day 2 - 5:40pm... rough afternoon, bit of toothache on top it, just makes u wanna smoke more.. as if that'll make it go away,  

I tell ya, the psychological side effects of this are just unbearable sometimes. It's almost like your two different people.. an internal good against evil..sounds crazy i know. But quitting..is..crazy. The lighheadedness and cloudy thinking are....difficult to deal with.. to say the least.

still..I plan to fight this as if it's life and death..it really is.


Still...smoke free. (just a little crazy)   

Could the lightheadedness be the result of your brain getting fresh air?   

You are experiencing what everyone does, you've taken away something that your body was getting on a daily basis. Your body and you will adjust, just takes time. Oh, and you are not crasy.   

vStyler - think of it like fighting with a ship that is on auto-pilot and you are trying to change course. You are having to consciously hold your course...the easy thing to do is let go and the ship will go right back to the course it was on. So in a away it is a battle - problem is the battlefield is the mind. A lot of people have said that over time it will get easier...we just have to hang in there.

We are both having the same issues here - today was really hard for some reason for us. We just keep telling each other why we were doing it. Feeling kind of jittery and the worst is right after we eat!