Zyban - The Anti Nicotine drug

[TidyTees]

Well,

although im not new to the forums cant rememebr my username and password for old acount

Just thought id give my experience of "New Leaf" the quitting smoking group.

Myself and my fiance went 2 weeks ago (tonight is our 3rd week).

We have both been soking for about 5 years now, 15-20 per day, rollies, real cigarettes etc

We decided, that we wanted to quit (well she did and i was told to follow)

after many attempty in the past i wanted to try something new.

So we wnt to New LEaf and went through a lot of quitting techniques -
So i tried zyban (?6.50 prescription only), we started taking them about 8 days ago and they stop the craving (basicaly stop nicotine getting to the brain from a fag). At new leaf they take a reading for the carbon monoxide in your lungs

something like:

1-5 = non smoker
6-10 = medium smoker
11=15 = heavy smoker
16+ = your lungs are fcuked!

Anyway i was 17 and my fiance was 19

you smoke for the first 6-8 days then just stop.

Then our reading was:

mine: 20
fiance: 20+ (caused the alarm to go off on the machine - lol)

aparently itsnormal cos your body is not getting nicotine so you drag more on your fag.

Currently i am on my 3rd day of non smoking and you know what although tension sometimes gets a bit high its alright, much better than patches and i feel a lot better.

I'll let everybody know what my reading is tonight


Davo

[Dar]

Good stuff :D Keep it up.

[SREmma]

Well done mate i quit smoking 4 weeks ago Friday its bloody hard but you get around it! Keep up the good work :D

[TidyTees]

congrats on 4 weeks :)

its really wierd, the emotions it takes you through when u stop. I feel great now, but ive just finsihed pressing 80 t-shirts and im gagging for one cos it was a chance to go outside and get some "fresh air" lol

The Zyban is a 2 month course so i'll have to see how it goes,i could murder one though :?

[Spud]

You're gonna get urges! Every time you see someone smoking, every time someone at work offers you one, every time you go the pub, every time you go in to pay for your petrol.... arggggggghhhhhh its so hard it hurts!!

[hendrix]

the real test will be when you go out! but good luck anyway.
i dont smoke but i do "smoke" :wink: wonder if the drug ur on affects that :?
andy

[TidyTees]

well the leaflet says that you have these like nodes in one part of ur brain that send the signal for nivotine, that part of the brain also makes your cigarette taste nice.

so by takin zyban it bocks the nicotine from getting to the nodes, so even having a cigarette doesnt help if you stressed as your not getting the nicotine.

after a week of being on teh zyban and having the cigarettes the cigarettes started to taste a bit wierd and my throat started to hurt real bad, so we decided to give up sunday night.

in a way it was quite sad cos it was a way of life for us both, wake up have a cigarette, after a meal, with a cup of tea in the morning.

i cant even have a nice big fat cigar any more cos i think they will set my smoking off again.

well we are just keeping ourselves occupied at the mo, me with work (alwayds working) ad not going to the pub.

:roll:

[hendrix]

in a way it was quite sad cos it was a way of life for us both, wake up have a cigarette, after a meal, with a cup of tea in the morning.

yeah but think of the health benefits...geez i shud take a leaf out of my own book here :twisted:

[TidyTees]

lol, i just hope its all worth it. im just waiting for my mind to start playing tricks on me:

"there will be a cure for cancer by time i get it - i'll keep smoking!"

its fcuked up! lol

see there was never any money aspect to it, cos we were getting cheap bacca, and rolling our own, we were prob spending bout ?8 per month on cigarettes lol

you can spend more on that having a coup-le of portions of fish and chips.

so its just the health side i need to work on, i was playing football ther other week, afgter 2 mins of running about i was out fo breath! sort of made me feel bad about myself

:cry:

[Jack]

Try drinking lots of water. A mate of mine found it a whole lot easier to quit when, every time he wanted a cigarette, he had a glass of water instead.

Mind you, he was pissing like a drain :lol:

[SREmma]

Lol i will have to try that water thing :lol: I havent actually been out yet but i dread it because what comes with drinking (smoking) thats gonna be the hardest test of all!

[Jules]

A workmate of mine had a accupuncture treatment course, it cost just under ?300 all in and he's not smoked since - and he was on at least 30 a day. So he's made his money back and he's healthier for it.

[epo]

i stopped smoking fags on good friday and not had one since
altho ive not stopped the weed and dont really want too at the moment

[srs1]

i never smoked to need to stop.

but i can tip my hat off to you all for trying to get away from it all.
after all, this day and age its not sociable to smoke.

give it another generation of people and i think smokers will be few and far between.

[General Baxter]

but smoking makes ya cool, youth, mez and ma gang all walk around kickin things in wiz ma fags behind ma ear, iz fink iz look cool, iz even nick um of ma 6year old sister
:wink:

good on ya man, iv never smoked in my life but the only problem is i get a lot a passave smoke and thats nasty :evil:

[ANDYRACER]

Thats a interesting way of giving up.

[TidyTees]

Well went to new leaf last night.

lets just a recapp on what our reading was last week for carbon monoxide:

Me : 19
My Good Lady : 20+

Carbon monoxide is the bigest thing to cause heart attacks, as it makes the blood thicker, cuasing the heart to pump more, so if its high in your lungs its high in your blood (through gaseous exchange - GCSE Science - lol) and visa versa.

Last night:

Me: 2
My Good Lady: 2

And thats only after 3 days!

so i am really really chuffed. we both are, its given us the spur to carry on. Now we just need to get our lung capaicty back up and we will be there.

We got a leaflet last night that goes through what people have done that has linked back to smoking:

Holiday Fags - 1 wont hurt
Weed - Well its weed so its not smoking
Cigars (:() - Expensive and very bad



So there you go, already i feel proud which is making me happier, and i can now say to somebody offering me a cigarette:

Sorry i dont smoke


Davo :)

[Matt Nova]

my mate gave up for about 2 weeks then started again when he quit his job he had one don't know if has had one since that was patches and they seem to work

[epo]

Weed - Well its weed so its not smoking

weed is from the earth :lol: good for the soul

i think nick will hate this as its called smoking trees :lol:

[Jack]

Nick, you might not want to see this..















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