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My husband has been a smoker since he was 12, he has diabetes. Looking for opinions on safe way to quit.? |
Going to doctor, just wanted ideas from others w/ possible experiences. the patch, the gum, hypnotism Another way, tell him that if he loves you, he would quit smoking if he doesnt take all his money and leave him or kill him, he wont quit I promise to you he wont. The only way he can quit is if he really wants to. I know from personal experience that you can't quit any other way. The safest way to quit is to just not smoke anymore. I don't think it's that addictive, if you just use your willpower. Someone told me he quit by replacing smoke with air. Every time he felt like a cigarette, he'd take a deep breath and slowly let it out. I don't know if it is a good idea to smoke if you are diabetic or not (sorry) but honestly it is a bad habit and a hard one to break. I know I have been told to stop many times and it is hard. Once you do quit you notice how bad the person smells that does smoke but I turn right around and pick up another cigarette. I am trying the new thing though because my lungs are bad and I get pneumonia at least once sometimes twice a year. I am now on the patch and it works pretty well. I started out at 21 mg. then down to 14mg and then down to 7mg. all of them are for 2 weeks a piece. My mom quit using them and a lot of other people I know are having success with them. If you have insurance ask the doctor to write a prescription for them and your insurance should pay for them. Good Luck and I hope that it works out for your husband. I smoked 2packs a day for 30 years. I tried hypnosis, nicotine gum, and the patch twice. 1year 11months 1week 3days and 10hrs ago I quit cold turkey. I think that cold turkey has the highest long term success rate. No matter what method you use, at some point your going to be craving nicotine. Continuing to feed your body with small doses of nicotine will prolong the withdrawal cravings. I think it's better try and get it out of your system as soon as possible. People will tell you that after 72hrs the nicotine is all gone from your body and everything after that is just mental will power. Well, I'm here to tell you that is total BS. The real story is that after 72hrs 95% of the nicotine and its long term derivatives are gone. What this really means is that after 72hrs you will be having your max cravings. I would recommend timing your quit so that your days 4 and 5 are on a weekend, vacation or slow days at work. Days 4 and 5 (post72hrs) will be the worst withdrawal cravings. Do what ever you have to, to get through those days, even if you have to call in sick to work and just curl up in bed. BTW, if you do go with the patch, put it on at night before you go to bed. It takes several hours for the patch to start working and if you wait till the morning to put on a patch your going to be jonesing for a cig waiting for it to work. Eventually you will start having moments of clarity where you don't think about cigarettes at all. Then those moments of clarity will start occurring more and more frequently. People will also tell you that craving only last for 3 to 5 minutes. Well. that's not the whole story either. In the first few weeks of quitting as your moments of clarity are increasing you'll get to where you'll have an hour at a time where your mind will be clear. Other hours will be mostly consumed with cravings. Individual cravings may last 3-5min each but if you string 10 of them together one right after another you have 50min of cravings and only 10min of clarity in that hour. If you are really addicted to nicotine now, you are always going to be a nicotine addict. All ex smoking nicotine addicts will have cravings for the rest of their lives. It may only be once a year but during that one annual craving you will want to whip someones tail to have a smoke. You just have to learn how to deal with and beat back that NICO-DEMON. I would suggest downloading a quit counter to your PC that will track time quit, cigs not smoked, money saved, and time added to your life. http://www.silkquit.org has a pretty good quit counter. Tell your friends and family that you are quitting and that you may need their emotional support. Another source of emotional support is to participate in an on-line forum of others going through the same thing. http://quitsmoking.about.com has a very active forum with a lot of information. One battle-cry that has helped me is NOPE ! Not One Puff Ever ! NOPE! Every time that the nicodemon plays tricks on you trying to get you to have just one more cig, or just one little puff to take the edge off, or maybe a pipe/cigar because you won't really inhale, JUST SAY NOPE ! Not One Puff Ever. During those spontaneous cravings you will be going cold turkey against it. That's why I think that going cold turkey from the beginning of the quit has the highest long term success rate, you will know that you can overcome those cravings without any kind of patch or gum CRUTCH. Don't be too surprised if after a week or two you get a sore throat and fever blisters. When you stop smoking, cells in your body will actually start to regenerate themselves and come back to life. Initially these newly awakened cell will be very sensitive and angry. So sore throats and cold sores are very common during the first few weeks of a quit. Your sense of smell will increase dramatically. I can now smell a smoker two aisles over in a store. And it grosses me out to think that I used to smell like that and i didn't even know it. And do yourself a huge favor, do not cook any chili or beans for at least 3 months. your nose will thank you for avoiding those residual gasses :) The nicotine stains will disappear from your fingers. Even the whites of your eyes may get whiter. And if the only change in your lifestyle is to quit smoking, then you will gain 40lbs of weight from a slower metabolism. You will want to address your weight gain as soon as possible. Eliminate bad carbohydrates (sugars and processed flour) and increase your activity level (walk, jog, bike, etc). Read this post at least twice and you will know what to expect to be successful. Quitting is a very difficult thing to do. But, it is something that everyone goes through only when they are truly ready to quit. Good luck To You. I was a smoker for 17 years and was really burned out on it! I tried some really crazy things to stop. I would stop for awhile and then for some reason I couldn't help I would just start again. I finally got hipnotized and it has been 13 and a half years since I smoked it worked because I REALLLY wanted it to if he is dead set on stopping it will work. don't worry they don't knock you out you know and have control of everything around you that's why you have to REALLY want it to work. Cigarette smoking is one of the most difficult addictions to overcome. There are numerous ways to try and stop: behavior modification, nicotine replacement therapy with gum or patches, drug treatments to reduce the craving and all of them require support to get through. Many attempts may have to be made to succeed but in the end it is absolutely worth it. Changes in breathing, improved sense of taste and smell, absence of the horrible tobacco stink and nevermind the other immediate and longer term health benefits. |
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