Posted by Zyprexa on September 2, 2011, at 6:50:42
In reply to Typical quitting smoking symptoms.. ARGH!, posted by zonked on August 30, 2011, at 17:02:06
Have you tried wellbutrin sr? Mix that with patches and you have 2 times the success rate. Also you might go backwards and start with the smaller patch and smoke as little as you can without going nuts. It took me a couple of years to wean myself off of cigs. I started with wellbutrin sr and smoked like regular for the first week. Then all of a sudden it was like magic. I didn't want to smoke as much. I cut my smoking in half and felt better about it. Unfortunaly that was as far as it went. Only cut it in half. I kept taking the wellbutrin and started nicotine gum and got off smoking so I took less of the gum but found that I couldn't function at school. So I went back to smoking. Later I tried the lozenges and this time I didn't cut down on the nicotine, which I'm still doing today. Which is working I don't smoke. I can be around people smoking and I function well at work. Just got to keep taking the full dose of nicotine. I tried the patch but didn't like it as much. It does not have a controled relise. So when you put it on it does not start working right away, take 1.5 hours. Then you feel well for a while and it starts wearing off. The gum was better it started working right after you take it, the lozenges are the same. Only difference with the lozenge is you get all the nicotine out of it. The gum works great when you first start chewing but then it gets harder to get the same flow of nicotine because its in the gum. I also found that all that chewing was not so great. And the gum loses effectiveness when its not as fresh, date wise. Ie you can't take anywhere near the expiry date. The lozenges are just as strong 2 years after they expire. Which means you can get them cheaper online.
The important thing though smoke once in a while but give it you damnedest to avoid smoking, and don't smoke the whole cig.
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