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Retired
Member
07-11-2001
| Saturday, August 04, 2007 - 11:23 am
Twinks, sorry to hear it. Hopefully the Chantix will help you quit for good.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Saturday, August 04, 2007 - 12:53 pm
Thanks, Retired. Juju, I was angry everyday anyway when I wasn't smoking. LOL I'm hoping the Chantix will solve that problem.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Saturday, August 04, 2007 - 6:23 pm
Twinkie, I have heard via e-mail from a TVCH member who has followed this thread on and off for years and who tried to quit for years and years and who didn't make it in time. She had COPD and asthma when she first tried to quit. She has a heartbreakingly scary story. She and I can both see both sides of the coin. It could scare you and other folks here so much that you would smoke MORE and totally go into denial and quit coming here and quit trying. Or it could scare you in a good way to within a millimeter of your life and you will never touch a smoke again. Would you rather hear it or not hear it? Anybody besides Twinkie have any opinions? Although I think Twinkie will have final say.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Saturday, August 04, 2007 - 6:27 pm
Twinkie, yes it is a book, it has helped many stop...I read it and agree with everything, I just didnt commit to it like I should have. my friend was on patch but still smoking, he read it and quit..hasnt had one in 3 yrs
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Saturday, August 04, 2007 - 6:28 pm
Juju, I think i might need to hear story, I am getting broncitus way tooo often and I figure smokin isnt great for my fibro
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Saturday, August 04, 2007 - 7:15 pm
Ahh Juju .... my mom died of COPD at age 65. She never smoked a day in her life. It was all from second hand smoke. I'm sorry your having trouble quitting Twinks but I'd hate for you to suffer later on.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Saturday, August 04, 2007 - 8:02 pm
Oh, trust me. I plan on quitting again just as quick as possible. I can't smoke with COPD. It will kill me and I don't plan on going anywhere for a very long time. I don't need a scary story to make me quit. That's why I was bugging hubby to get my Chantix from our friends on his lunch break. I started taking it today. I figure a couple of weeks is all I'll need to quit again. Thanks for all of the great encouragement, guys!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Saturday, August 04, 2007 - 8:19 pm
You go, Twinks!!! You did it once, you will do it again! AND you did it in the hardest way possible, without assistance, so with a little help, you should make it this time. (the following is for the lurkers; I know Twinks has heard it before) In case I haven't mentioned it before, I did the patch, big honking one to start. The patch worked just fine for me in totally removing the withdrawal symptoms, which is why most of us addicts continue to smoke, to avoid the withdrawal. Then I was just left with the emotional issues of having just abandoned my best friend. Ha!!! Best friend, my ass! Pamy, I hope you can work up the courage to do it, because it does require a whole lot of courage. You are basically out there flying solo, and it is damn scary. But yeah, with your current health issues, and your relatively young age, there is no time like the present to start saving your own life. Pamy, I would guess the TVCH member who e-mailed me will click on your profile and e-mail you. Oh! And Pamy, I used to get terribly debilitating bronchitis several times a year when I smoked. I rarely even get a cold anymore, and even when I do, at first I panic because of the past history, and then it only lasts a couple days, and I am flabbergasted. And then I realize that the past crippling colds were probably due to smoking. I may never again have bronchitis or a cold that I swear is going to be the death of me. Hallelujah!
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Saturday, August 04, 2007 - 8:21 pm
thanks Juju!! I know what you are saying is so true
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, August 05, 2007 - 1:10 am
Twinks, no one can take away those days you WERE off cigs. And now you'll have the Chantix. I sure understand the anger part. And you might serioiusly consider getting a punching bag, or one of those blowup clown things with a sandbag inthe bottom that pop back up. At one place I worked the guys filled a large garbage bag with computer listings (lol.. we had tons of those around) and hung the bag from the ceiling and we had a baseball bat .. some of the guys would kung-fu kick it on the way by. Anyway it helped relieve stress 
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Retired
Member
07-11-2001
| Sunday, August 05, 2007 - 8:59 am
Quitting smoking saved my life (at least for now). Before I was diagnosed with Wegener's, I was convinced I either had emphysema or lung cancer (my mother died from lung cancer) because I couldn't breathe (I had already quit smoking 2 yrs. earlier after 40+ years of smoking). Many months and tests later when I was finally diagnosed with Wegener's via an open lung biopsy, my doc said if I hadn't quit I wouldn't have made it since the Wegener's attacked my heart, lungs, and kidneys. (((Pamy and Twinks))) and (((any lurkers out there who want to quit))) Please quit sooner than later. It's worth it.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Sunday, August 05, 2007 - 9:07 am
Thanks, Sea. Yeah, 5 months off really stopped the coughing. I don't want to go back to that.
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Sunday, August 05, 2007 - 9:10 am
I know you can do it Twinks!

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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Sunday, August 05, 2007 - 11:22 am
Thanks, Vnicky!
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Nickovtyme
Member
07-29-2004
| Sunday, August 05, 2007 - 11:38 am
C'mon Twinks! Get your gloves on and let's do this thing...nobody has thrown in the towel yet!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, August 05, 2007 - 12:36 pm
Twinks, it todays Parade Magazine in my Sunday paper, Dr Isadore Rosenfield writes about The Pill That May Help you Quit Smoking and he cited varenicline and I Googled that and it is your Chantix (or Champix in Canada and Europe)!! Woohoo!!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Sunday, August 05, 2007 - 1:40 pm
Cool!!! I have Parade magazine here but haven't read it yet today.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Sunday, August 05, 2007 - 3:30 pm
Cool, Sea!! Thanks! I've heard some great things about it so I hope it goes easier this time. I'm a generally very happy person and I was angry every single day. I guess cold turkey wasn't the way to go for me. And thanks, Nick! Not to worry. I'll be quitting again soon. For good.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Sunday, August 05, 2007 - 6:48 pm
Cold turkey is the very hardest way to go. I was sad a lot of the time, but I think sad might be better than angry.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Sunday, August 05, 2007 - 10:03 pm
Juju, I think hubby could have handled sad better than angry. Poor guy! LOL
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Mictay
Member
09-29-2006
| Friday, August 10, 2007 - 8:57 am
Well I took the first step and went and got patches last night.Monday will be my start date if not sooner.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Friday, August 10, 2007 - 11:34 am
Excellent Mictay!! Good Luck!
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Friday, August 10, 2007 - 1:28 pm
Good luck Mictay! xox
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Friday, August 10, 2007 - 4:45 pm
Yay Mictay!!! Good luck.
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Saturday, August 11, 2007 - 4:15 am
Bravo, Mictay!!!!!!!!!!! You can do it!!!! Twinks, don't beat yourself up. Just start again, with some help this time. You know, most of us have practiced quitting a few times before making it permanent. Consider it prep time. I am sure your better half is aware how tough withdrawal can be. For your health's sake, he is probably willing to bite his tongue when that addiction monster lashes out. Mine wears his lash marks with pride, or perhaps it's more of a triumphant "but-I-gotcha-where-I-wantcha" look.
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