Quitting Smoking.

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miokie, if you really want to quit you should look into a prescription medicine called Chantix/Champix http://www.chantix.com/. The success rates are incredible (this coming from GPs not biased advertising sites), side effects are minimal and it can even be covered by insurance. As far as i know it works by blocking the nicotine receptors in your brain, making the smoking of a cigarette for chemical reasons pointless. It's worked for a couple of my friends, i would use it but i dont think i want to quit enough quite yet. Good luck with quitting, it will be hell.

 

 

 

I vouch for this product, my mother quit smoking successfully after 20+ years of smoking like a pack a day and unsuccessfully trying to quit 2-3 times before that. It didn't work so much in the way you described (blocking nicotine receptors and seeming pointless) but it made her feel nauseous every time she had a cigarette (much like how I smoked a bad brand for the same effect). The first 2 weeks were hard and then the withdrawal phase left her. She still feels the need for a cigarette sometimes but it's more psychological rather than actually wanting one. She's successfully quit now for about a year or two.