[foxl]

Smoking-pill suicides overlooked in misfiled reports - Health - Health care - msnbc.com

This absolutely horrified me. There really is nothing more to say, than that.

 

[Guest]

Cold turkey me too. Without a Puff since Nov 16 2010. Glad that I am off it after having smoked for close to 30 years. In any case these "Quit Smoking" plans work best without these "gum/patch/pills".

 

[Shanny]

Cold turkey here too . . . and appalled at this exposé.

 

[1970clea]

Quit in January - on Champix - having tried unsuccessfully using patches/cold turkey/hypnosis at various points spanning several decades. It worked for me, although I do appreciate that it is not for everyone. I had only been off the ciggies for a fortnight when dx'd with type 2. If that had come first I doubt very much whether I would have been in the right zone to quit.

 

[Shalynne]

Quit in January - on Champix - having tried unsuccessfully using patches/cold turkey/hypnosis at various points spanning several decades. It worked for me, although I do appreciate that it is not for everyone. I had only been off the ciggies for a fortnight when dx'd with type 2. If that had come first I doubt very much whether I would have been in the right zone to quit.

Diagnosis did put me in the right zone ... until I learned I needed to make far more radical diet changes than the ADA said I did!

So instead, within 5 days of diagnosis, I went cold-turkey on whole categories of comfort foods and changed my routine in other ways as well. Since I have zero willpower, something had to give.

Am now thinking of quitting smoking, but cold-turkey has always been disastrous -- both for me, and for anyone within a mile's radius. My last attempt resulted in a near-violent depression that refused to lift for months.

Now I'm considering e-cigs.

 

[prebollar]

very proud of you. Stay strong.

 

[Patdart]

Me, too. I'm still hooked on the gum and just have to cold turkey it! Yep, as prebollar says, Stay Strong!

 

[alanthiana]

I "quit" multiple times cold turkey... tried the patch (irritated my skin a lot, but kept on it)... failed every time.

Chantix worked for me, and I didn't have any side effects. I know one of the big ones I was worried about were the nightmares (a coworker had a ton of them while on it), but either I didn't have any or my inability to remember my dreams may have kicked in. So... YMMV on Chantix.

I'm saddened to hear of suicides while on it, though