[Rhodes22-list] Smoking

[Rik Sandberg]

Slim,

>I tried my first cigarette when I was 11 years old and by the time I was 12
>I was a daily smoker and addict.  By 14 I was taking pride in rolling my own
>smokes.  Before I was old enough to drive a car, I was regularly using every
>tobacco product I could think of--cigars, pipes, chew, you name it.  Not
>much has changed since then.  I'm a veritable tobacco priest, thus devoted.
>
>For me, being awake is the trigger.  The only time I don't
>smoke is when I'm asleep or in the shower.  It's the first thing I do when I
>get up and the last thing I do before bed.
>


Sounds like the story of my life .... 'cept for the smoking outside 
part, but I do get plenty of that at restaurants and such.

Thanks for the tip, I will look into this.

Hang tough, I hope you make it.

Rik


Slim wrote:

>If you are a tobacco user or know someone who wants to quit please read
>this.
>
>I tried my first cigarette when I was 11 years old and by the time I was 12
>I was a daily smoker and addict.  By 14 I was taking pride in rolling my own
>smokes.  Before I was old enough to drive a car, I was regularly using every
>tobacco product I could think of--cigars, pipes, chew, you name it.  Not
>much has changed since then.  I'm a veritable tobacco priest, thus devoted.
>
>I've tried many times to quit and always failed.  My non-smoking wife no
>longer allows smoking in our house so there I am out on the back porch in
>the freezing cold feeding my addiction.  They say to identify the
>"triggers."  For me, being awake is the trigger.  The only time I don't
>smoke is when I'm asleep or in the shower.  It's the first thing I do when I
>get up and the last thing I do before bed.
>
>Now hope has come.  There's a new prescription drug on the market called
>Chantix.  Here's how it works.  Nicotine produces dopamine in the brain
>which is why you get pleasure from it.  This pill prevents the nicotine from
>producing the dopamine so smoking is no longer pleasurable.  You no longer
>get that "pop."  Once you start the medication, you can continue smoking all
>you want but after only a few days into it I found little pleasure in
>smoking.  I'd light up, take a couple puffs and put it out.  I've now been
>on the pill about three weeks and have not smoked at all for the last six
>days.  I have very few cravings, little or no withdrawal symptoms, I'm not
>gaining weight and have no apparent side affects.
>
>The beauty of this is that I haven't really had to "try to quit" at all.
>The pill does all the work.  It has not taken any will power on my part.
>The will power will be needed when I go off the pill.  The recommended
>treatment is three months. Without the medication, of course the nicotine
>WILL produce the dopamine and so I'll be one puff away from going back.  But
>I'm determined and committed to becoming free of this slavery.
>
>I'm not out of the woods yet so wish me luck, but I recommend this product
>without hesitation.
>
>Slim
>
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