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So damn difficult to stop - any help offered will be gratefully accepted. Thanks.

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Champix

Hi I am on day 11 of my quit and my new life of being a non-smoker and up to now it's been fairly easy I am using Champix which you can get off your Doctor on prescription you continue to smoke for at least 8 days once you have started the course in my case it was day 8 by then the taste of the cigarette had gone and it was quite vile some take longer to stop you will know when you are ready it's not a magic tablet but it does help to take the craving away the only side effect in my case is I have murdered 28 people lol Good Luck with your quit the freedom is wonderful.

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Just hang in there

It does get easier with time. I know it's hard but the good days will start to outweigh the bad days soon enough. Just try have faith that it will get sooooooo much better in a relatively short time.

Sarah

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Hi ive taken my first tablet today, threw up within 10mins of taking it. Not sure if it is due to tablet or not or whether it has even had a chance to get in my system. However having read other threads on champix i will do things differently tomorrow and eat before taking it

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I always felt sick with it unless I ate first! Good luck.

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Thanks sjt13 i gave up some years ago for almost 2yrs and did it cold turkey but since then all attempts have failed. Hate to admit i couldnt even give up when i was pregnant last year, but im more determined than ever now to kick the habit ........ sometimes i dont even know why i smoke !!!!!!

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Im on the patches and its working great for me, lots of water and I'm changing my days what I do. I'm nearly at day 12, what has been a help to me is thinking how awful I felt my first day and it makes me think no way I want to feel like that again, honestly it gives me the Willys thinking of it.

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Day1

As i write this.i smoke.usually i can hang on from 2 a.m till 5 p.m.after that my smoke sense starts tingling

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Day1.will start in a few hours

Day1.will start in a few hours

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Hey hope u decide to quit.

Take it one second/minute/hour/day at a time and don't start stressing out about never being able to smoke again. you are not missing anything!! Also Deep breathing during cravings worked well for me the first 2 days.

One fun thing about quitting (for me) was i felt drunk or maybe alittle stoned for the first few days from all that extra oxygen in my blood !;)

you can do this, but attitude is everything :D

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