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Giving up smoking
Topic Started: Jan 15 2010, 02:10:19 AM (124 Views)
rjs
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Everybody i know who has tried Champix seems to have given up smoking overnight.
OH was on the half dose last week & full dose this week & if anything he is smoking more :no:
Was really hoping this would finally stop him .Does anybody know how long it usually takes to kick in :S
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I didnt stop completely until day 12/13. I was probably lighting up more than normal once I started Champix, but was barely smoking them (4-5 puffs).

There's still time.
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Wow. 12-13 days, that's good.
I gave up the old fashioned way, before these things were invented.

My wife didn't like me smoking, so she told me stop...........


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Smokers begin their therapy with CHAMPIX® and set their quit date between day 8 and day 14. They continue to smoke until this time and then after quitting smoking, therapy continues for the remainder of the 12 week treatment course.


I can see the logic behind lighting up more often than before, as long as you don't smoke the full cigarette.

You could always try an extra incentive for him.........
Bedroom service is temporarily suspended until smoking stops...... :whistle:
It worked for me :lol:
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If he only started taking them last week then don't panic. I felt no difference at all until about day 14, then by day 17 I'd stopped. Terry didn't stop until about day 21 but that's it, we've never looked back. For me personaly it's as if I NEVER smoked. I just don't think about it unless someone asks me, and even then I struggle to think when it was was that I gave up unlike the majority of people who've given up a conventional way and can tell you exactly when they gave up. I *think* I must've stopped around April/May time :dunno: but never yearn a cigarette, am not particularly disgusted if someone else is smoking, just don't give it a thought.
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It's still early days Rob, Paul took longer than that. I don't think he gave up until quite well into the pack. Is Matt having any side effects ? I didn't think he could take Champix. Glad he is though. I must admit I was expecting a huge increase in available finances since Paul stopped but that doesn't seem to have happened.
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Thanks ,thats actually a weight off my (tiny ) mind :thumbsup: .
Was worried as he tends to be a bit depressive but he is nicer if anything :blink: Only side effect is he has lots of vivid dreams where he looses the kids or upsets whole towns :lol:

Did try & make him give up once ...................BIG mistake. :hide:
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Paul had stomach aches and felt a bit sick
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ohippy
Jan 15 2010, 02:38:02 PM
Paul had stomach aches and felt a bit sick
Wont tell Matt that bit,he will convince himself he does too :crazy:
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ohippy
Jan 15 2010, 02:38:02 PM
Paul had stomach aches and felt a bit sick
That was me
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rjs
Jan 15 2010, 02:34:52 PM
Thanks ,thats actually a weight off my (tiny ) mind :thumbsup: .
Was worried as he tends to be a bit depressive but he is nicer if anything :blink: Only side effect is he has lots of vivid dreams where he looses the kids or upsets whole towns :lol:

Did try & make him give up once ...................BIG mistake. :hide:
That was Terry.

Doc did say it might cheer him up a little as there is an anti depressant in them (very mild)
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I think that the stomach ache and sickness was what made Paul give up though so not all bad
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I had busy dreams too. I would feel exhausted when I woke up!
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Anne
Jan 15 2010, 10:33:31 AM
am not particularly disgusted if someone else is smoking, just don't give it a thought.
Give it time. In about 10 years it will start to disgust you, everyone I know didn't mind others after they'd given up but the feeling of loathing and digust built up eventually until you find yourself very pointedly waving your hand and coughing loudly when someone close lights up :whistle: :lol:
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moneypen20
Jan 15 2010, 09:01:10 PM
Anne
Jan 15 2010, 10:33:31 AM
am not particularly disgusted if someone else is smoking, just don't give it a thought.
Give it time. In about 10 years it will start to disgust you, everyone I know didn't mind others after they'd given up but the feeling of loathing and digust built up eventually until you find yourself very pointedly waving your hand and coughing loudly when someone close lights up :whistle: :lol:
Thats me :blushing: I just look at people smoking now and thing "why the hell are you doing that? Its disgusting" I cannot imagine ever smoking again....its only been the last few months I've been like this :S
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Hevs
Jan 16 2010, 12:43:58 PM
moneypen20
Jan 15 2010, 09:01:10 PM
Anne
Jan 15 2010, 10:33:31 AM
am not particularly disgusted if someone else is smoking, just don't give it a thought.
Give it time. In about 10 years it will start to disgust you, everyone I know didn't mind others after they'd given up but the feeling of loathing and digust built up eventually until you find yourself very pointedly waving your hand and coughing loudly when someone close lights up :whistle: :lol:
Thats me :blushing: I just look at people smoking now and thing "why the hell are you doing that? Its disgusting" I cannot imagine ever smoking again....its only been the last few months I've been like this :S
How long since you stopped?
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I finished my last packet the day Matt came out of hospital, I have had the odd one since...the last was well over 18 months ago :yess:
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I don't recommend my method of giving up even though it was very effective.

1) Get rushed into hospital for emergency brain surgery
2) Spend the next 6 weeks in a completely brain adled state where yes I wanted a cigarette but I could not have one.
3) Come out of hospital and not be able to go back to work so you have no money to buy cigarettes.

Nearly 4 years on I do not miss cigarettes at all. The smell does not repulse me but I am just so glad to be free of the curse of them (I remember those times when I was feeling ill with a really bad sore throat but I still had to have a fag.)

I could not imagine smoking again



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Jan 20 2010, 01:50:36 PM
I don't recommend my method of giving up even though it was very effective.

1) Get rushed into hospital for emergency brain surgery
2) Spend the next 6 weeks in a completely brain adled state where yes I wanted a cigarette but I could not have one.
3) Come out of hospital and not be able to go back to work so you have no money to buy cigarettes.

Nearly 4 years on I do not miss cigarettes at all. The smell does not repulse me but I am just so glad to be free of the curse of them (I remember those times when I was feeling ill with a really bad sore throat but I still had to have a fag.)

I could not imagine smoking again



PMSL......

for some reason I never pictured you and Hevs as smokers, wrong again!!
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Jan 20 2010, 02:32:40 PM


for some reason I never pictured you and Hevs as smokers, wrong again!!
I smoked from about the age of 13 (My babysitter gave me my first cigarette )

I was quite a heavy smoker at times, easily a pack a day.

Hevs has always been an occasional smoker. She could just stop. Me I had tried to give up several times but it took a fairly large event to get me to kick them.
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