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Originally Posted by mytgxl
I smoked from 16 to 45 I tried a few times but failed then I went to the doctor & he gave me a prescript for some champix & i have never looked back! And I was one of those who loved a smoke! Good luck!
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Pretty much same as me. Started at 16, and finally gave up 3 months ago (at 43) with the help of champix. 4 things helped me:
1. Pick a Friday to have your last smoke on - with champix, they recommend you pick a day in the first 10 days of taking the tablets - I went just a little past that, but it still worked. My last smoke was 5pm Friday 20 Jan 2012 (15 days after I first started the tablets).
2. By this stage, you should actually not get any feelings of wanting a smoke, but if you do, then do something that takes a minute or more - I learnt pi to 50 decimal places, and each time I felt like a smoke, I recited pi in my head or wrote it down (3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937 510)
3. Once I got past 2 days without a smoke, I actually then didn't want one because if I had one, then I realised I may as well have smoked for the weekend, and it would be a waste that I didn't, so then I stayed off them, and the longer that went, the more time I wasted not smoking which made me want to not smoke more.......(bit weird, but worked for me)
4. Take all the tablets...................
Good luck!