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They are basically allowed to brainwash us with those commercials. This is one area that actually needs better regulation.
How do I know that you're not brainwashing me right now?
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They are basically allowed to brainwash us with those commercials. This is one area that actually needs better regulation.
I quit back in 2004 cold turkey.... It sucked at first but you get over. I never went back to cigarettes. NOW the DIP is another story!...WHEW! You wanna talk about addictive!??? I LOVE the dip but quit it about 3 weeks ago. I still cop a pinch off of someone who has a can every now and then though....
How do I know that you're not brainwashing me right now?
Or maybe you GOT all his money
If I did, then that was a big waste of my time since my bank acct looks the same. :thmbdown:
Yeah, you got it all then.
LMAO...I got mind controll over Debo. He be like shut the f up...i'll be quite, but when he leave 'ill be talking again.
how do you recover from suicide?
dang who let the phizer rep on the forums?
im a pack-a-day smoker. you know they teach recovering suicides to smoke? that whole affirmation of life thing. ill tell you what if i quit i wouldnt be safe to be around. would probably eat some little kids ear for looking at me wrong.:\
I've never been proud of smoking, those that don't smoke just don't understand what it's like to have the ball and chain that we call cigs.
I thought that smoking was the fastest route to get any drug into your system.Here's an analogy for Frank D:
Dip is to cigarettes, as crack is to cocaine.
Dipping is like injecting drugs since it goes straight into the bloodstream which is way more efficient than smoking it and being absorbed through the lungs and then into the bloodstream. So the effects and withdrawals are more intense.
Nicotine is one of the most addictive substances known to man. The physical withdrawal is not nearly as bad as many other drugs, but the mental withdrawal is one of the toughest. This is why cold turkey actually works well with cigarettes because it a decisive moment to quit. If you keep busy physically and/or mentally somehow, the withdrawal is not too bad.
Tapering off nicotine by reducing the number of cigarettes or switching to a patch or gum works fairly well. The key to tapering is to do it gradually. Reducing 10% a week has very good results and keeps the withdrawal symptoms at minimal. I'd recommend that if you smoke 20/day, take to 18/day for a week, then 16/day the next week....once you get to 10/day you can either keep it aggressive reducing 2/day or safe reducing 1/day for each week. This is a long process but it works naturally and is relatively painless/harmless.
Chantix works by occupying the pleasure receptors, so you are basically being doped up 24/7. It is effective at reducing cravings because that smoke will produce less pleasure since the receptors are already occupied. This is also effective at blocking other drugs that produce pleasure and has been used clinically for them, but present the same issues. Chantix is constantly using dopamine up to fill the receptors, so this strains your natural production of dopamine which then affects your ability to have pleasure from other things and seriously screws with your sleep and dreams which is why there is a high rate of depression and suicide associated with this drug. Most studies show that Chantix produces the same quit rate at 1 year as nicotine gum. Also you have to taper off Chantix or it will produce withdrawal symptoms of its own which are similar to nicotine withdrawal.