Yes ! Smoking again….boaring…boaring.
This is the medication that I have been prescribed to help me to stop smoking. I don’t want to give up smoking tho – honest I don’t. I have two lung diseases though and I need to take care of myself. I thought maybe I could just smoke grass. I’ll see. I think this is a joint I’m smoking on this picture. Naughty me. This picture is a couple of years old. Smiling. I love this smoking picture. I’m taking a real strong drag you can almost see my eyes poppping out of my head. I have another smoking picture I may put here. It was taken on Monday morning at the festival. Adele, Marlisse and Me said a little prayer for me and we buried my fag end. We had a little ritual. I dug it back up after 5 minuites. Aww!! I couldn’t cope.
Oh !!
I’ve been coming up with some mad stuff to aid me or a bet me. Hehe !! I feel to emmbarrassed to say. Ha ! I probably will in my comments. All kinds of wierd and wonderful thoughts are blowing in and out of my windy mind.
You see !!
Smoking, drinking coffee and writing is my life. A bloody big part of it. It’s the part of it I truly love.It keeps me alive and kicking. It keep me smiling. It keeps me sane ( almost ).
I LOVE SMOKING. I BLOODY LOVE SMOKING. I’D BE TELLING LIES IF I SAID I NEVER.
Anyway !!
This is champix. This little tablet is going to be my friend. I actually don’t want it’s fucking friendship.Sorry for swearing. Fuck off champix. I’m going to put it in my mouth tonight. Just before midnight, because I’ve promised the lady at the No Smoking Clinic that I will. Thats the only reason i can find to why I’m putting it in my mouth coz I’ve promised the lady and she’s been so nice. I should have put it in my mouth last Tuesday at the specalist’s but I never. I played games with myself – like I’m doing now.
The specalist said the measurments with my breathing were the best ever and theres no reason why my life would be shortened with these measurments. Well obviously that was all I needed. He shouldn’t have said that really coz now I don’t see any reason in me putting myself through all this headfuck. Anyway, I’m looking for any justification to NOT STOP. I am. I know I’m playing games.
I could bring all my years of knowledge and experience of applying a 12 step programme to my life couldn’t I. I don’t want to get stuck in that mindset agin tho. I’m only just getting myself together from my last few years of that way of being and before I entered into it again I swore to myself I never would. I drive myself crazy with it all. I don’t want to brainwash myself or be part of a structured network for recovery and addiction again. I don’t. To intense. I just need to me who I am and be true to me.
Being true to me means I don’t want to give up fxxking smoking. SIMPLE. I actually want to live now tho. Thats my dilema.
How does it work?
Champix tablets contain the active ingredient varenicline, which is a medicine used to help people who are addicted to nicotine to give up smoking. It acts in the brain, but is not the same as nicotine replacement therapy.
Varenicline is a type of medicine called a nicotinic acetylcholine receptor partial agonist. This means that it acts on the same receptors in the brain as nicotine does.
Varenicline works by stimulating the nicotinic receptors in the brain. This produces an effect that relieves the craving and withdrawal symptoms you can get when you stop smoking. At the same time, varenicline blocks nicotine from acting on the receptors. This prevents any nicotine inhaled in tobacco smoke from having a rewarding and enjoyable effect. However, it is recommended that you don’t smoke while you are taking this medicine.
You should seek help and support as much as possible while giving up smoking, even while taking this medicine, as this will increase your chance of success. Your doctor, practice nurse or local pharmacist can all provide this support.
You should start taking this medicine while you are still smoking and set a ‘target stop date’ for within the first two weeks of treatment. This is because the medicine needs time to start working.
The dose is increased gradually in the first week of treatment and the medicine is then taken twice a day for 12 weeks. If you have successfully managed to stop smoking at the end of 12 weeks, your doctor may offer you a further 12 week course of treatment.
The tablets should be swallowed whole with a drink of water. They can be taken with or without food.
What is it used for?
Aid for giving up smoking.
Warning!
This medicine might make you feel dizzy or sleepy and so could impair your ability to perform potentially hazardous tasks such as driving or operating machinery. You should avoid driving or operating machinery until you know how this medicine affects you and are sure that it won’t affect your ability to perform such activities safely.
There have been reports of suicidal thoughts or behaviour in people taking this medicine to help them give up smoking. It is very difficult to know if this is due to the medicine, as giving up smoking itself can make people depressed, especially if they already have a mental health problem, and depression is associated with suicidal thoughts. However, not all people experiencing depression and suicidal thoughts while taking this medicine had a previous history of psychiatric illness or had stopped smoking. For this reason, if you begin to feel agitated or depressed, or have any changes in your behaviour or thoughts about suicide or harming yourself while taking this medicine, you should stop taking it and consult your doctor immediately.
Some people may find that when they stop taking this medicine their urge to smoke returns. They may also feel irritable, depressed or have difficulty sleeping. To avoid this, your doctor may consider reducing your dose slowly when you finish treatment with this medicine, rather than stopping it abruptly. Discuss this with your doctor.
Use with caution in
Decreased kidney function.
History of psychiatric illness, eg depression.
Epilepsy.
Not to be used in
Pregnancy.
This medicine is not recommended for children and adolescents under 18 years of age, as there is no information regarding its safety and efficacy in this age group.
This medicine should not be used if you are allergic to one or any of its ingredients. Please inform your doctor or pharmacist if you have previously experienced such an allergy.
If you feel you have experienced an allergic reaction, stop using this medicine and inform your doctor or pharmacist immediately.
Pregnancy and breastfeeding
Certain medicines should not be used during pregnancy or breastfeeding. However, other medicines may be safely used in pregnancy or breastfeeding providing the benefits to the mother outweigh the risks to the unborn baby. Always inform your doctor if you are pregnant or planning a pregnancy, before using any medicine.
The safety of this medicine for use during pregnancy has not been established. It should not be used by pregnant women. Seek further medical advice from your doctor.
It is not known if this medicine passes into breast milk, but it is possible that it may. As a result, it is not recommended for mothers who are breastfeeding. If you have been unable to give up smoking using any other method, you should discuss with your doctor whether it may be appropriate to stop breastfeeding in order to try this medicine. This will depend on factors such as the importance of breastfeeding to the child, how much smoke the child is being exposed to and how likely this medicine is to help you stop smoking. Seek medical advice from your doctor.
Side effects
Medicines and their possible side effects can affect individual people in different ways. The following are some of the side effects that are known to be associated with this medicine. Just because a side effect is stated here does not mean that all people using this medicine will experience that or any side effect.
Nausea.
Headache.
Difficulty sleeping (insomnia).
Abnormal dreams.
Sleepiness.
Dizziness.
Change in taste.
Dry mouth.
Disturbances of the gut such as constipation, diarrhoea, vomiting, abdominal discomfort, indigestion, flatulence.
Changes in appetite.
Airway infections.
Mood swings.
Changes in sex drive.
Tremor.
Restlessness.
Awareness of your heart beat (palpitations).
Skin reactions such as rash or itching.
Increased urination.
Chest pain.
Increased blood pressure.
The side effects listed above may not include all of the side effects reported by the medicine’s manufacturer.
For more information about any other possible risks associated with this medicine, please read the information provided with the medicine or consult your doctor or pharmacist.
How can this medicine affect other medicines?
It is important to tell your doctor or pharmacist what medicines you are already taking, including those bought without a prescription and herbal medicines, before you start treatment with this medicine. Similarly, check with your doctor or pharmacist before taking any new medicines while taking this one, to ensure that the combination is safe.
The safety and benefits of taking this medicine in combination with other medicines for stopping smoking have not been studied. Other smoking cessation medicines are therefore not recommended while you are taking this one. Using nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) in combination with this medicine has been shown to increase nausea, headache, vomiting, dizziness, indigestion, fatigue and a drop in blood pressure compared to NRT alone.
If you have severe kidney problems you should not take cimetidine in combination with this medicine, as it may increase the amount of varenicline in the blood.
The components of tobacco smoke can cause certain medicines, for example those listed below, to be removed from the body faster than normal. When you stop smoking, they are removed slower, so their blood levels may increase. This means that doses of these medicines may need adjusting after you stop smoking:
clozapine
dextropropoxyphene
flecainide
fluvoxamine
olanzapine
pentazocine
phenylbutazone
some benzodiazepines, eg oxazepam
some beta-blockers, eg propranolol
tacrine
theophylline
tricyclic antidepressants, such as imipramine
warfarin.
People with diabetes who smoke normally need more insulin, as smoking reduces the amount of insulin that is absorbed into the blood from an injection under the skin. If you have diabetes and are giving up smoking, you may subsequently need a reduction in your insulin dose. Discuss this with your doctor.
Other medicines containing the same active ingredient
There are currently no other medicines available in the UK that contain varenicline as the active ingredient.
Last updated 31.07.2008
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This medication ( champix ) is just like the medication that the doctors give to Herion Addicts. It’s like subutex. It’s the same theroy. In fact it’s exactly the same.
It’s a blocker.
For fucks sake !! I don’t want to go down this path with this medication.
Should I just cut down with my smoking – stop being so bloody absoloute. Do I need to abstain. My assoication with abstinance eventually fucks me up and over.
OH !!
I don’t think I like this medication. No wonder I don’t want it to be my fucking friend. Yes ! I have had the subutex medication for a while when I was dettoxing from herion and trying to manage my life to get myself clean. Quiet a few years ago now. I have experience of this form of medication.
It’s okey getting help through medication but the medication can and does become a problem to.
OH FUCK !!
I’ve promised the lady.
duskydi - August 10, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Listen !!
I can’t do it. Sorry I’m going to have to swear here. I can’t put all this shite in my system. NO WAY. Have you see all the fucked up side effects.
I’m to pure for that medication – honest I am. I have nothing in my system. For the past month I’ve not even taken the inhalers either. Nothing – I’ve just been relaying on pure smoke.
Listen !!
I don’t thnk I feel safe with this form of treatment. I have to much assiosiation with it with my drug addiction.
Oh fuck !!
What am I gonan do now. I can’t take it I can’t. I’ve promised the lady to. I quess I can phone her tomorrow ? Should I sleep on it ?
Right !!
Just fucking take control thats what I’m going to do. I don’t actually know how I am going to do that.
Oh Listen !!
I’m not going to bore this blog with all this rubbish. It’s just rubbish.
I need and want to smoke now. I’m going to roll a fag and make coffee and sing. When all elese fails – sing.
duskydi - August 10, 2008 at 8:42 pm
Hey Di – sounds like a bit of a struggle. You can just *try* it, and see if it helps? It not, drop it. You can always try another time. But you know best … trust yourself … if you don’t feel like these meds are good for you, don’t do it. Trust … you know best. And when you are ready, you can quit without the drugs, I am sure!
Take care,
G.
Gerry - August 11, 2008 at 3:46 am
Hi Gerry.
Well its 4.26. I’m 4 hours and 26 minutes late. I never put the tablet in my mouth at midnight. I’m trying to do some romantic Cinderella trip on myself. It never worked.
I’m going to phone the Lady up today.
You See !!
My trouble is : I always feel or I have felt should say in situations like this that I’m letting people down. I have such an aassioacation with letting people down in areas of my life when I’ve tried stopping doing ’stuff’.
Do you know what I wish for. I wish I could get all this assioacation with addiction and my 12 step programming out of my fucking head. Thats what I wish.
I’m so sick of myself and my head youve no idea,anyway I’m not going to cry. I’m just going to sing a song.
Urmm !! I wonder what song I ‘d like to listen to. What song are you listening to Gerry. If not now, what ws the last song you listened to.
Smiles, Smokes & Songs
Di
duskydi - August 11, 2008 at 4:16 am
You know..
My head is twated here. I said I was going to swear. I’m angry. So angry. I’m gritting my teeth and pushing my knees together to the point of just probably ending up with just gums and knocked out knees.
When I feel like this the 12 step programme ‘gets it’. I think I need to go to my co-dependancy post and let off some steam. Oh !! I hate that 12 step programme sometimes.
I wish I haden’t been brainwashed and I don’t think anyone will understand that statement.
The song I went for was Patti La Belle ‘On my Own’ I always go for that song when I want to cry. I’m going for pure base now. Addicted to Base. Hehe!!!
dumm….dumm…..dummmm…. derzzzzzzzzz derzzzzzzzzz
duskydi - August 11, 2008 at 4:35 am
Listening to: Orange Crush, R.E.M.
Di … so sorry to hear that this is so tough for you. I can see how this could be really tough because of the associations you have made with your other addictions. But it seems to me, this is not like your other addictions … it’s not really threatening your life (not immediately), your friendships, your family. And so that’ the cool thing Di … don’t put pressure on yourself to quit this thing just yet. Tell the really nice lady that you almost did it for her, because she was so nice. But, tell her in the end you gotta do it for yourself, and you are not ready. But you will let her know when you are. See Di, it’s okay to be happy with this addiction. It’s not the best of course, but it’s not the worst either. You know the worst. This ain’t it, and it would seem to me, it’s just not worth driving yourself ’round the bend about it. You will when you are ready. Trust yourself, and if you can do that, I bet you will find it easier to try quitting next time.
I am off for the night now, it’s late here too, and I gotta git up in the morn’. Best of luck Di – G.
Gerry - August 11, 2008 at 4:47 am
Thanks for you kind words Gerry.
Right !!aww!! You mentioned the nice lady. The lady is still going to be nice isin’t she. I do have sucj a big thing about letting people down you know. I do. I just don’t seem to have much of a thing about letting myself down though. I suppoz I don’t really let myself down as I don’t set myself any goals.
Urmm !! I quess life is a goal.
Anyway ! I took the tablet. You start at 2mg for two days then go up to 5mg. I took it at 10 this morning.
Thanks for the best of lucks Gerry
Di
duskydi - August 11, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Hey Sweetie,
It does sound like the cure may be worse than the thing it seeks to solve. I don’t know what to tell you – I worry about you and your health – I’ve said this before. But you’re a big girl and make your own decisions. Maybe this isn’t the right time to quit, but I’m not sure there ever is a right time. Dont want to be a hypocrite because I smoke too and honestly I know it’s time to quit but can’t bring myself to do it. I know your quandry – just don’t know the answer.
Take care of yourself, please dear.
Love
Annie
writerchick - August 11, 2008 at 7:32 pm
Hi Annie.
I took the tablet. Don’t worry sweetheart I’ll be okey. I know I will. I could have just done with out this head fuck.
On a positive note for smokers it’s not the tabacco and the cigarettes that have done the lung damage at this early age, not even the herion the specalist said. It was the crack cocaine.
With my last relasp crack cocaine came into play ( a lot ). I’d never used crack before. It wasn’t readily available in my last using which was tons of years previous. I’s say I had maybe on average 12 months taking the nasty drug. Yes ! Just 12 months. I became the crack head bitch from hell. Talk about urgency and desperation. OMG ! Such a different drug to herion.
The specalist said it was the crystals from the crystalation of the crack cocaine. A really damaging and dangerous drug in all areas.
So !!
If I would have just stuck to tabacco and nicotine from the age 9 and not smoked all other bits and bats of shit especially crack cocaine my lungs may have ben okey.
Pesky Crack Cocaine.
Don’t worry. You know – I feel a buzzy and a bit strange and am taking real stretchy yawns – not much oxygen.
Yer !!
I feel a bit fucking funny but I have to say, OMG !! I took the tablet at 10 and have not smoked half as much today – fucking wierd. Whats happening – honest I bet I’m smoked 10 thats all. I won’t smoke many tonight coz I’m more of a morning smoker, drinking coffeeier and writer. I do everything more at sunrise when I first wake up.
OH !!
I do feel funny. I may ring the lady tomorrow. Just to talk. She’s nice. I have an appoitment with her on the 20th.
I actually smoked about an hour ago and I don’t want to smoke again yet. Thats unusual. I feel really tired. I quess my head like I have started has been twated, I will be tired. ha ! When we say twated here it’s really serious. Hehe!!
Head Fucking Twated. That’s really serious.
Di. x
PS. I’m okey tho.
duskydi - August 11, 2008 at 8:15 pm
We know that cocaine is a nasty actor that changes brain chemistry by stimulating dopamine and adrenaline release. The highs that it generates make it very addictive. The problem is that with any addictive drug, more of the drug is needed to get that initial high. Crack is the solid from of cocaine that is smoked. It is more concentrated, produces more intense highs, and greater lows.
What about lung injury?
No doubt that smoking crack can damage the brain, but it also can cause “acute crack lung”. The inhaled smoke from crack inflames lung tissue and can cause swelling and bleeding of the lung itself.
Inflammation always has the same response in the body. Get a skin scrape, and soon redness, swelling, warmth, and pain occur at the site of injury. The lung is no different when it is irritated. The lung tissue begins weeping fluid and blood, which keeps oxygen from transferring into the bloodstream. Shortness of breath, coughing up blood, fever, and lung failure can occur. Even if the crack user doesn’t have enough lung inflammation to require hospitalization, each use causes some damage to the lung. Over the years, it can lead to emphysema.
So what is emphysema?
In the lung, the breathing tubes (trachea, bronchi, bronchioles) branch into smaller and smaller segments until they end in an air pocket called an alveolus. This is the part of the lung where air and red blood cells in capillary blood vessels come near enough to allow transfer of oxygen and carbon dioxide between the two. If the walls of the alveoli are damaged, they can break down and the alveoli become “floppy.” It becomes harder for air to enter and even harder for it to be exhaled. As more of the lung architecture is damaged, breathing requires harder work, and the downward spiral of emphysema has begun.
Emphysema is a disease of chronic injury. The body can compensate for years of lung abuse but it can’t do it forever. When lung tissue is damaged, it is lost forever. As smokers and crack users get older, with continued abuse, the lung begins to fail. Wheezing, shortness of breath, fatigue, and weakness become a daily routine. Medications can do some damage control, but they can’t return lung tissue to normal.
I think this about sums me up.
Yup !!
Love
Di XX
Consquences of using drugs particular crack cocaine. This is what happens. I’m actualy lucky to be alive. I’m going to be okey you know. I know I am -I’ve not come this far to just die of a lung disease, Please God something more glamorous ha !! Kidding – kidding – honest.
I think I feel like I’ve had some sort of drug with this champix tablet. Well I have haven’t I. I don’t think I feel all stoned in my head but I don’t feel like …. I don’t know.
I feel fuzzy and stretchy with a funny mouth and for some reason pulsating breasts. Ow !!
I’ve only had 2mg of it. I take another 2 mg at 10 in the morning. The medication needs to build up in your system.
Oh !!
Di.
duskydi - August 11, 2008 at 8:43 pm
http://www.truthwillout.co.uk/2008/04/champixchantix/
OH NO !!
Just read this. Shit man. I don’t think I’ve put the link here properly. That nice lady never told me aything like whats being discussed within this forum.
I really don’t know what to do. Honest – I can feel this 2mg. I feel fuzzy. People are saying within this forum that champix is quiet dangerous for your mental state. Feelings of dettatchment, immense vatique, forgetfullness, nausea big time, depression and anger.
Fuck !
Why am I doing this to myself. Listen I may just have to witter on with this post. I’ll try to be all intellegent but…. I’ll just how to go with my felings won’t I.
I don’t feel right. I definatly know and feel I have something in my system. I know my body where drugs are concerned.I quess we all do don’t we.
I feel I’ve had something and Yes it feels like DRUG.
duskydi - August 11, 2008 at 9:14 pm
NO WAY AM I TAKING THIS TABLET TOMORROW.
I don’t feel right. I’m going to bed now. I’m hoping for a real suxual erotic dream like people say they experience whilst taking these pesky little numbers.
I think thats the only positive for me. Sexy dreams. Yes ! Wild erotic dreams – heres hoping. I’ll let you know in a few hours when I wake up.
I don’t like this medication.
duskydi - August 11, 2008 at 10:38 pm
Well !!
It’s 6.30. I woke at 4. I’ve been pottering around blog world, I just read a lovely post on kindness and made comments. I love kindness. Annies post.
Right !!
I know I only took 2 mg of the tablet champix but I know it’s not for me. I didn’t like how I felt yesterday and I don’t like what I have read on the link I have put here.
I can’t put myself through all that. Why ? Shit. I hate the system. Why is this drug available. Okey ! I know. Smoking is not great for our health but surley……
OH !!
I don’t know what to say. I’m going to go back to bed for an hour.I’m going to come back to this coz I want to write how I felt how I still feel. I never had sexy dreams.
I’m not taking the second tablet which again is 2mg and I’m phoning that nice lady today.
Sweets
Di
duskydi - August 12, 2008 at 5:55 am
Good article, thanx for sharing
Kevin Smith - August 12, 2008 at 11:48 am
Hi Kevin
Your very welcome. It made me smile when you said the word article. I felt like a journalist. It felt good ha!! I just witter on and on and on and on somedays about some stuff. Thats the beauty of having this blog. I can just rant away. Thanks for reading me and making a comment.
Did you read the link and the discussions on the forum I put here. Scarey.
I only started it yesterday and finished it yesterday to. I took the first dose which is 2mg and I felt ‘Not good’ by not good I mean my spirit kinda went a bit wierd on me.
I felt in some sort of druged/withdrawel state, stretchy yawns and I felt so tired, drained, sickly, strange feeling in my mouth and breasts and
I felt all funny in my head, I don’t know if this is my ingrained (trying to be not so ingrained) 12 step beliefs and my battles I have internally with all that carry or or what. I know the mind is such a strong tool and somedays I feel my mind has been altered, tampered with for want of a better word with years of working a 12 step programme. It hard somedays. A bloody battel.
Anyway.
I’m not taking the second dose.
Thanks Kevin
Di
duskydi - August 12, 2008 at 2:01 pm
I’m sat here the sun is shining through the window, (I’ve always had my computer positioned wrong) and I’m enjoying smoking. It’s hard trying to weigh up whats the best way for me to go here and how my life and head will be with out smoking in it.
I went to see my daughter this morning. I didn’t want to dissapoint her. I told her how the tablet champix made me feel, She said I was just looking for any justifiacation to not stop smoking, I said of course I was but nether the less the tablet is dangerous.
Bless her !!
She told me her friend had told her about the dangers but she had just shrugged it off as the want for me to live was much stronger than listening to some stupid side effects.
I love my daughter. I’m not taking the second dose. I wish I could stop saying that. I think it takes me a while to sort myself out. Strangley I write my sorting myself out and I share it with the world. Hehe!!!
I don’t know what people must think about me. I don’t know what I think about me, I just know that I know myself well enough to know that I love smoking,sorry but I do.
Smoko Di.
duskydi - August 12, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Wow Di – quite the experience! Yep, I am with you … it’s quite okay to say you love smoking. And yep, I say trust your gut on that drug. If it doesn’t feel right … no way, don’t do it! When you are ready to quit, you won’t need a drug. Keep going (and writing)!
~G.
Gerry - August 13, 2008 at 2:05 am
Hi Gerry,
Thanks for you easy words, Yup ! I get them.
Last night my daughter had a me using dream and it’s totally freeked her out. We’ve just been going through it now. Poor little thing. I’m wondering and I think I’m right seeing what state she was in if it is as powerful as what my using dreams were.
We decided the dreams must have come from my expressing myself and how I felt with the champix in my system, it’s brought back stuff for her.
I wish I could keep my mouth shut. This girl is so beautiful you know, so fresh, so alive and very very highly spirited. She has such a spirit , she’s amazing.
This dream has upset her, she’s white, no colour in her little cheeks. Aww!
I hate my addiction and recovery and how it still dominates my mind and hurts me and my family.
I have to say this is the first time she’s told me she’s had a me using dream. I’m gutterd. I have to say as well for most part of my parenting life the quilt and pain from my addiction has lessoned and myself and my children have a wondefful life together.
I don’t want her having these dreams. She’s to pure.
Fuck off Champix. We don’t need you.
Thanks Gerry. Sorry for just wittering – See I don’t write. I can’t have a blog roll can I, what would people thknk of me, just wittering on and on and on. Maybe when I learn how to write I will get all grown up with myself and all responsible and get meself a blog roll.
Nice to see you again Gerry
smiles
Di
duskydi - August 13, 2008 at 9:24 am
Hi Di, the site with the Champix warnings is my site. Thank you for directing others to it, people need to be warned. I’m glad you stopped taking Champix, and if your daughter could understand how it really made you feel, I’m sure she would know that you would have gladly continued with it if you had been okay on it. Her feelings are understandable, but as you can tell from the posts on Truthwillout, there are people still not feeling normal mentally and emotionally MONTHS after they have stopped taking it, so you did yourself a favour.
Recovery is all about survival, and children are an inspiration in that. Sometimes, though, their purity and unspoilt qualities can also make you feel even more aware of what you’ve been through yourself. But I think you underestimate the importance of your blog. Your personal journey and your thoughts on that are more relevant and moving than you know. Keep writing, this is of more genuine value than the crap most journalists are writing. I do understand that you probably find that hard to believe, but it’s true.
By the way – although I am a hypnotherapist and spend a lot of my time helping people quit – don’t ever feel stupid, or like a failure, just because you have a smoking habit. Some of the greatest world leaders, inventors, philosophers and geniuses from many fields have also been lifelong habitual smokers! I’m not suggesting there’s a connection, but it is obviously not the mark of a weak personality or a fool, is it?
Best wishes,
Chris
Chris Holmes - August 15, 2008 at 10:11 am
Hi Chris.
Thank you so very much for coming here and commenting. I hope you don’t mind me putting your sites link here on my blog. I thought I was going to get into trouble. Smiling. Glad I never.
I didn’t really want to look at any sites for champix , I find I can get to bogged down with to much information and then really don’t know what to do for the best so I thought I’d try it before I came to any decisions or make any judgement on the product..
I tried it. I took the first recommended dosage 2 mg. I don’t know what the 2mg did to me. I kinda know my body and my mind and mental state pretty well. I know it wasn’t good.
The medication ripped my spirit from right under my skin and nose.
Oh fuck !
I felt like I’d used class A drugs. I know what it feels like to use class A drugs, i’m not just flippiantly making that comment. I thank God I felt like this after just one dose and I got out.
Imagine after just another couple of doses how I would have felt if I carried on.
After not feeling to great I find the courage to find out some information. Your site just jumped out at me. Thank God it did.
Your words are very supportive and kind. Thank you. It is a bit of a struggle for me to want to give up smoking. See… I don’t want to. I musen’t be ready yet. Will I ever be ready ? I don’t know.
All’s I know is that I want to live with my spirit. It’s the only thing worthy that I have Chris. It really is alongside all me mates and family of course.
Yes !!
Champix made me feel quite ill, ripped my spirit from under my nose and made me feel like I’d used class A drugs.
It’s not for me. Funny Chris a friend of mine was suggested ‘hyp no stuff.’
The seed has been plantened. Thats all I can say and a huge thankyou. Glad I never got into trouble.
Best wishes back at you and I am sincerely grateful for your site and the disscussions that I have read. Will it be okey to make a comment there.
Your very nice to comment on my writing. I just wish I could be a bit more intellegent , but I quess my writing wouldn’t be me if I used intellegence that I don’t have.
Smiles and Gratitude
Di
duskydi - August 15, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Di, feel free to comment on my site, all comments are very welcome! As you can see from the comments already posted, all kinds of different views and writing styles, all welcome.
Anyone reading this is welcome to put a link to the Truth Will Out site from their own… we do link back to sympathetic sites in the same professional field.
If you are curious to know more about hypnotherapy, follow the links to my other site ‘centralhypnotherapy.com’, which appear all over the Truth Will Out site. Read all about it!
Best wishes, Chris
Chris Holmes - August 18, 2008 at 10:56 am
I use to smoke and was up to 2 packs per day when my doctor told me that if I didn’t quit, that I would be on an oxygen tank by the time I was 30. It always amazes me how some people can smoke until their 80 and never hardly cough but here I was already developing that nasty morning smokers cough.
For me, I paid $50 and went and had accupuncture done and I will swear by it and was the best $50 I ever spent. There are also other natural things that you can take if you don’t want to try accupuncture… Chamomile is very good to take when you are trying to quit anything addictive as it will help to relax and calm your nerves and will help subside your cravings.
Good Luck to you…
http://www.mypureherbs.net/chamomile.htm
Beverly - August 24, 2008 at 10:23 pm
Hi Chris.
I will come and make a comment on your site – thanks. I’ve just been getting over my last specalist appoitment really and trying to rest my head from my months of head fuck with me trying to think about stopping smoking.
The champix really knocked me. I spoke to the lady at the no smoking clinic run by the NHS and she told me to take the remainding tablets immediatly to the chemist – spoke voloumes to me Chris.
DANGEROUS MEDICATION.
I will be back to your site, thanks so much for coming here and commenting. Much apprieaceted.
Wishes which are best
Di
duskydi - August 25, 2008 at 6:14 am
I understand the love / hate relationship that you have with smoking. But I think you are taking the Chantix prematurely. Work on building your desire to become healthier. Focus on what you are gaining, not what you are giving up. Even if you are successful at quitting with Champix, you are at high risk of relapse. there are two parts to quitting–stop smoking-which chantix can help but you also need to stay quit-which once you stop the medication, it’s up to you. Smoking is harmful whether it is tobacco or marijuana–have you tried brownies instead, then at least you’re not getting the damage from smoke. For free quitting tips visit: http://www.StopSmokingStayQuit.blogspot.com
VJ Sleight, Queen of Quitting, a former smoker, cancer thrivor and Tobacco Treatment Specialist.
vjsl8 - August 26, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Hi
Thank you so much for your comment. Still smoking – just took one champix tablet and didn’t like the feelings it induced weather it be in my head or not.
I’m not to keen on eating pot – See I don’t like getting stoned. Its the habit and the rituals of the smoking that I love.
I know now its not that great for me and the seed has been planted for me to lead a more helaity life style where my smoking is concerned.
Emphysema is pretty serious isn’t. Thank you for the link for the blog – I will have a look.
I think cutting down at the moment is more doable that actally quitting. Hopefully quiting will come when it does.
Smiles and thank you
Di
duskydi - August 28, 2008 at 4:45 am
Hi Beverly.
Thank you to for the link and comment and you information. Much apprieacated. I wil try Camomille – well I always say I wil try stuff and never do. I’m like that with my Pre-Menstral tension, evening primrose oil they say. I always say I will try it and never have either.
Yes !! the love hate thing. Drives you crazy doesn’t it. Unfortunatly I don’t have much hate.
Its a love love thing for me is smoking. It is. Thats my problem. I love smoking. I’m trying not to love smoking. I’m trying to get it in my head that its killing me sooner than what I deserve to be killed
Thank -you
Di
duskydi - August 28, 2008 at 4:50 am