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I have been on Chantix for a week & today is the day. I haven't had a smoke in 30mins. 
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Good for you. One day at a time.
After 18 years, its been 4mos and 2wks.
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after 25 years and as much as 3 packs a day its been...
6 months,1 week,3 days,13 hrs, 6 min, 55 seconds...but whos counting....You CAN do this JR...you just have to WANT to!
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Oh THANK GOD! For a second there, young man, I thought somebody else was p*ssed off at somethin' that somebody had said around here and had decided to closeout "their account" again.  (good luck on quittin' the demon weed there kid) 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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With the price of gas I don't know how anyone can afford to smoke.
I saw the price of skoal yesterday 6.59 a tin. Holy sheeppoop batman.
I'm not that old and I remember 1.50.
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Good for you JR. Just think of all the goodies you can buy for the Bike with all the money you save  that was my prime motivation,$$$ mike 
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Good job. My advice is don't count the time it will remind you you haven't smoked. I used to smoke too I quit 21 years ago now.Haven't missed them for a long time. The first couple months are the worst then you don't even think about it. I didn't anyway.
Edit: actually maybe not even read this thread again because of the reminding you factor!
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I don't know what you guys are paying for petrol (gas) over there but we are stumping up a whapping £4.42 per gallon. About $8.40
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Oh THANK GOD!
For a second there, young man, I thought somebody else was p*ssed off at somethin' that somebody had said around here and had decided to closeout "their account" again.
(good luck on quittin' the demon weed there kid)
BAHAHAHAHA! Good one, Dwight! And good luck to you too Yota...this is important sh!t. If you do this, not only will you feel better, smell better, sleep better, taste better, (OK, you just MAY get fat...for awhile until you start to exercise) but your self confidence will SOAR..you will never be the same again! It's like...it's like...it's like being born again! 
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I dont need to get any fatter.
we should do this every weekend!
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neither did I but dude, one thing at a time....you're going to gain weight...it's almost unavoidable...but thats cool...call yourself a fat ba$tard (like I do) and then remind yourself fater is better than smoking...you DON'T have to be happy that you're fatter (I'm NOT  ) but you will have to accept that it's going to happen...and then when your ready to deal with it (rather than the smoking) you will...and take comfort in the fact that if you can quit smoking...you CAN lose the weight...
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It's like...it's like...it's like being born again!
............A "Born Again" Yota
Good Luck, I only smoke cigs at m/c ralleys, where I bum them off people. Haven't actually bought a pack in 20+ years(cheap)
jwh
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I guess I can take my my extra $$$ & spend it on hookers. I should be able to burn off a few calories too.
we should do this every weekend!
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In my best homer simpson voice.....
Hmmmm, hoooookers.
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and at the price of cigs now you can finally afford expensive hookers... instead of those cheap $20.00 hookers you been getting....  hey these might even have all their teeth
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Dang Dodgy! I new you guys paid more than us, but man that is a lot. And you have North Sea oil. Just you wait we will be paying that much too. Dave
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All you have to do is replace one bad habit with another new habit that falls in the realm of "Good Habit" Exercise. Lots of people seem to have a problem with it but once you force this discipline unto yourself and make it as much of an obsession as the smoking habit itself...then you have conquered. I quit smooking years ago but a few years back in the Summer of my 50th I had one of those blinding moments of self realization. I looked in the mirror and I saw 235 pounds of soft , lazy undisciplined , heavy drinking poor eating habits bum. I hit the gym an average of ten times a week. I am a certified gym rat. I now weight what I did at 20. I intend to die at the same weight. I am now still a bum but a healthy looking bum. Good luck with quitting. It seems trite perhaps but if you can quit and stay quit and start a regular exercise program that includes plenty of cardio exercise .....the weight problem that so many who quit realize may not become a reality.
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All you have to do is replace one bad habit with another new habit that falls in the realm of "Good Habit"
Exercise. Lots of people seem to have a problem with it but once you force this discipline unto yourself and make it as much of an obsession as the smoking habit itself...then you have conquered.
I quit smooking years ago but a few years back in the Summer of my 50th I had one of those blinding moments of self realization.
I looked in the mirror and I saw 235 pounds of soft , lazy undisciplined , heavy drinking poor eating habits bum.
I hit the gym an average of ten times a week. I am a certified gym rat.
I now weight what I did at 20. I intend to die at the same weight.
I am now still a bum but a healthy looking bum.
Good luck with quitting. It seems trite perhaps but if you can quit and stay quit and start a regular exercise program that includes plenty of cardio exercise .....the weight problem that so many who quit realize may not become a reality.
Good for you! I must admit, I see a little of myself in there...never mind where! ...but reading your post has definitely given me a little more impetus into my plan to reduce my alcohol consumption, watch my choice of snack foods and start working out again. Just recently read na article that weight training can actually REVERSE the effects of aging on muscle tissue.
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i quit roughly 4 years ago after smoking for 33 years (i started when i was 8 ). i don't regret or miss it at all. eat tootsie rolls or any chocolate to fight the bad cravings in the beginning.
"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus
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I started smoking at 5
I held off as long as I could
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5 HA!
I climbed outta the womb and bummed my first smoke from the cabbie on the way to the hospital!
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you waited till you were out....panzey I just had dad do a Lewinski and I was smokin stogies before I saw the light 
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owwwwwww.... 
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In four years I have saved the price of a new bike. That's a good enough reason, let alone the health stuff...
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my ashtray smells really nice right now.
we should do this every weekend!
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my ashtray smells really nice right now.
try licking it.
The percentage you're paying is too high-priced
While you're living beyond all your means
And the man in the suit has just bought a new car
From the profit he's made on your dreams
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my ashtray smells really nice right now.
try licking it.
That's pretty cunning, Lingus!
(and with THAT one...Good Night, ladies and gentlemen)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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I guess I can take my my extra $$$ & spend it on hookers. I should be able to burn off a few calories too.
I met a couple of nice working girls in Dohlenga, Yota.
Need the phone numbers?
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working girls in Dahlonega??? I didn't see any.
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In four years I have saved the price of a new bike. That's a good enough reason, let alone the health stuff...
Thats the same logic I used when I bought my bike! Except at 2 packs a day and living with NY taxes I justified it at 3 years....
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The Girls in Dahlonega won't notice you if you're fat. Unless you have a spit up your bu++ and an apple in your mouth, over an open pit of smoldering coals - then the Georgia girls will take notice. Georgia girls favorite table whine?: "When are we gonna eat?"
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Congrats Yota and good luck.
As for me, I've discovered that long rides keep the beer can out of my hand and the cig out of my mouth.
Now if only I could do something about those stop lights!
Seriously, what is Chantix? I need to quit this nasty habit too.
Remember; no matter where you go, there you are.
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Its the new stop smoking pill.
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There is another option. Do a search on Welplex. You go in the afternoon after huffing to burn 3 packs of cigarettes in a day, get a quick physical and they start an IV and give you dopamine and scopalamine through the IV. You walk out a non smoker - cost about $400 and most insurance companies will pay some or most of that.
The IV drugs do the same thing as Chantix, displacing nicotine from the recepters in your brain. They have a 92% success rate.
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47 days now for me after a 30 day supply of Chantix....Smoked for about 30 years....not that Im counting or anything...
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I'm smoking like a freight train....
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" Georgia girls favorite table whine?: "When are we gonna eat?" " Alabama girl's favorite whine.... "Get off me daddy your crushng my cigarettes"  ...ride safe my southern brother...Gordon
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WTF?
Start fresh again tomorrow.
Stewart
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I'm going to give it another shot tomorrow but tonight I'm getting sheetfaced.
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