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Finally quit 10/16/2011
Topic Started: Oct 17 2011, 11:42 AM (459 Views)
misty
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Hubby says he needs to prepare hisself to quit, idk. This is how he did it before but it really wasn't quitting, it was just stopping for a month. Maybe it will be for longer since I have quit also. Water is about all I can drink right now.lol Pepsis are burning my mouth. Davo the deep breaths help alot. Having two hyper boys, one is a teenager, I have to do the breathing excercises alot.
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Radman
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misty
Oct 19, 2011, 12:44 pm
Hubby says he needs to prepare hisself to quit, idk. This is how he did it before but it really wasn't quitting, it was just stopping for a month. Maybe it will be for longer since I have quit also. Water is about all I can drink right now.lol Pepsis are burning my mouth. Davo the deep breaths help alot. Having two hyper boys, one is a teenager, I have to do the breathing excercises alot.

"Preparing" causes too much anxiety, which just amplifies an addict's need for another fix. Whsii and magnum9 are both right. We all know the taper-down method rarely is successful, because most of us tried it. I sincerely hope your hubby will listen to some of the advice here and quit with you. It's not fair to you or to himself to prolong the agony. The rage and constant eating are completely normal. We all went through it. The rage will pass soon enough, and you'll find an awesome personality that you haven't seen in many years. When you get a handle on your new nic-free life, then you can address the eating issue. For now, just let it be.
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Deadication
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These are exerps from Joel Spitzer's book on quitting nictotine addiction. Which is a free download floating around the internet.

Spitzer has found that most successful quitters fall into one of three groups: (1) those who awoke one day and were suddenly sick and tired of smoking, who threw their cigarettes over their shoulder and never looked back; (2) those given an ultimatum by their doctor - "quit smoking or drop dead"; and (3) those who became sick with a cold, the flu or some other illness, went a few days without smoking and then decided to try to keep it going.

Amazingly, the websites of Philip Morris (PM USA), the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the American Cancer Society (ACS), the American Lung Association (ALA), and the Mayo Clinic (MC) all either expressly or impliedly tell smokers the same message: the key to successful quitting is to not quit smoking today, but instead to pick some future date and then plan around it.

The leading CDC quit smoking page not only tells smokers to "set a quit date." It then tells them that as part of their advance planning that they need to go out and buy "medication and use it correctly," primarily over-the-counter (OTC) nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) products such as the nicotine gum, nicotine patch and nicotine lozenge.

What all of the above websites fail to tell quitters is that during 2006 almost all successful long-term quitters (80 to 90%) will again quit entirely on their own without resort to any product or procedure. None will be told that almost all successful quitters are nicotine-clean within hours, not weeks or months.

On an average, a person is x2.6 more successful to quit for atleast 6 months or more on a spontaneous choice to quit and quit cold turkey. As apposed to those who plan or take NRT's.
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Deadication
Oct 21, 2011, 10:23 am
These are exerps from Joel Spitzer's book on quitting nictotine addiction. Which is a free download floating around the internet.

Spitzer has found that most successful quitters fall into one of three groups: (1) those who awoke one day and were suddenly sick and tired of smoking, who threw their cigarettes over their shoulder and never looked back; (2) those given an ultimatum by their doctor - "quit smoking or drop dead"; and (3) those who became sick with a cold, the flu or some other illness, went a few days without smoking and then decided to try to keep it going.

Amazingly, the websites of Philip Morris (PM USA), the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the American Cancer Society (ACS), the American Lung Association (ALA), and the Mayo Clinic (MC) all either expressly or impliedly tell smokers the same message: the key to successful quitting is to not quit smoking today, but instead to pick some future date and then plan around it.

The leading CDC quit smoking page not only tells smokers to "set a quit date." It then tells them that as part of their advance planning that they need to go out and buy "medication and use it correctly," primarily over-the-counter (OTC) nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) products such as the nicotine gum, nicotine patch and nicotine lozenge.

What all of the above websites fail to tell quitters is that during 2006 almost all successful long-term quitters (80 to 90%) will again quit entirely on their own without resort to any product or procedure. None will be told that almost all successful quitters are nicotine-clean within hours, not weeks or months.

On an average, a person is x2.6 more successful to quit for atleast 6 months or more on a spontaneous choice to quit and quit cold turkey. As apposed to those who plan or take NRT's.

This is awesome info. Thanks man.
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