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I stopped smoking with the patch. I was coughing my lungs up one morning and listening to the radio when they announced a clinical trial for smokers to test the Nicoderm patch for over the counter sales. Up to that point it was prescription only. This was before August, 1996.
So I got accepted and I was given a full physical and breathing test (all free). I was also paid for my transportation. I was started on the highest level of the 3-step system, and 5 days later I found I was getting dizzy from the level of nicotine in the patch. I had another 2 weeks before I could go back to the study docs, so I cut it in half (nobody told me not to, tho it's on the box now that you shouldn't). I covered the cut edge of the patch with surgical tape so it wouldn't "bleed." Anyway, after about 6 weeks of wearing the patch, I didn't need it anymore.
My habit was mostly psychological, I guess. It was something to do with my hands. I was used to grabbing a cigarette when I got in the elevator at work, on the way down to go to lunch or home, and I would light iut the moment I hit the street. We were called Nicotine Nomads because we went from place to place to find a place to smoke. Break time was oin the roof of our building. It could be 20 degrees and 30 mph winds, and we'd still go. But having something to do with my hands was the worst part.
I have been smoke-free for 17 years! I have no urge to smoke, although sometimes I have the urge to pick up a cigarette and blow smoke back in somebody's face, usually in a bar or restaurant.
Drinking was a bit more difficult. I spent several years carrying a 64-oz "sippy-cup" of water around with me. That's exercise as well as having something to do with my hands. lol It worked. I still drink occasionally but I don't get drunk anymore. For one thing, I'm on a fixed income and I'd rather havce food and meds; for another, I just don't like the bar scene that much anymore, although I do go to our local place on wing night. Love my wings.
Chantix was the only thing that got this nicotine addict to stop - read on:
The first week I had to deal with all day nausea and weird dreams. Then I went to the full dose and it got worse. I quit the Chantix after about 10 days. Guess what. For over three months thereafter, I'd light one up and put it down and forget it.
This stuff works! BUT You have to play around with when to take it. Make sure you don't take it on an empty stomach and never take it less than 5 hours before you plan to go to sleep. You don't have to take it for long either. It has very very long after effects. I went with the "pulse" system. Stopped it for 4 months then went back on it - the second time with very few side effects. But lo and behold, with no nicotine fits at all...I quit completely in about 6 months and for some reason, have absolutely no drive to ever pick up another ciggie ever. A puff on one makes me sick. I haven't even touched the Chantix in years.
I am not in any way financially connected to this drug or its pharmaceutical company.
Psychic change thru the steps did it for me with the booze, just like it did it for you. It works, it really does.
Chantix worked for the cigarettes after hundreds of countless vain attempts for 45 years.
I'll be 6 years in January. "Free at last, free at last thank God Almighty I am free at last."
That is great! I'll hit two years off nicotine on December 12. Still so happy to be able to say, "I don't smoke".
Free at last is right. I was a slave to those damn things.
Was it AA ? That made you stop drinking? What about smoking? Anyone just woke up & stopped whats your story?
Giving up Smoking was easy, they asked me for $10 a pack, that was the end of that addiction.
Alcohol isnt entirely gone but old age is taking care of that addiction.
Food is now an addiction i'm having trouble with..
Thankfully I never started smoking. My asthma dr would have strung me up by my toes. I have decided to quit drinking wine because my riding pants were getting snug. I will stop drinking before I have to buy new riding pants.
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