Quote:
Originally Posted by beauflow
I am doing ok.
I know I could write this some where else, but I've wrote there before  and I don't really need a reply back.... but
I put on a patch yesterday-for stop smoking.. I am one of those that fit in the group of "you may quit a thousand times before your last time"... I worry but am going to try to stay positive. I already know from the past I may get more emotional for the next few weeks. But I am hoping since I am living alone I can use the coping skills that I've learned along the way.
I was doing well in last August but September I feel off the wagon.. and holidays I knew myself enough to just try to keep steady. I had been pretty good with not going back to a pack a day.
I quit for almost a year one time, then I started to get stressed out and started smoking again.
From that time I've quit for months or weeks... but always get to a point of "need a cig to calm down".
I remember one therapist, a bipolar specialist, mentioned the first five minutes after smoking a cig is like an antipsychotic, she had an article on it... I am going to try hard this time.
I will still have a vape, but even with just the vape - it's not enough for me. The patches helped me in the times where I quit months or weeks, ...
I know exercise will help  just getting back to it |
Hello,
I'm an expert in smoking cessation methods and devices.
What qualifies me?. Emphysema light to moderate now.
Moderate to severe before.
Five years researching tobacco and it's components.
And, of course, looking for a way out of dying choked to death.
I vape. Because I'm a nicotine addict and always will be.
And I enjoy the many flavors available to me thru vaping.
I know the stuff. I have more than a hundred different Ecigs.
Besides, it's four poisons against 4000 contained in analog cigarettes.
Vaping is a bad smoking cessation method. Only 19% efective rate.
The patch is even worse. Only 8%.
And the pills are a joke. At 4%.
The only successful method is COLD TURKEY. 54% efectivity rate.
If you want to have your cake and eat it too. Vape.
My Pulmo is mesmerized that I vape and haven't lost any more lung capacity in seven years.
He wants me to explain eCigs to him all the time. I won't.
The schooling has cost me more than 5k and change. Plus five years of trial and error, to now divulge my knowledge for free.
He went to medical school, and paid thousands.
He can take the time and money to learn about vaping too.
If his interest is really saving lives.
So, now that the truth is in front of you, what is it going to be.
Keep playing games with things that don't work, or COLD TURKEY.
It's your lungs. Or whatever is left of them.
Good luck. Cheers.