Zyban

[dami76]

Hi just my 2p worth. I was a heavy smoker who had tried all the nicotine replacement stuff and zyban etc but still couldn`t stop. My wife brought home the Alan Carr book, The Easyway to Stop Smoking I was very sceptical and thought what a load of crap how can a book stop me smoking and to be honest i still don`t know but it did and i have not had any urge to smoke or craved nicotine at all. I would recommend anyone who wants to stop to give it a go the book only cost`s around a fiver about the same as a pack of fags and if you still want to smoke what have you lost.


cheers

Damien

[Wet & Broke]

Originally Posted by dami76

Hi just my 2p worth. I was a heavy smoker who had tried all the nicotine replacement stuff and zyban etc but still couldn`t stop. My wife brought home the Alan Carr book, The Easyway to Stop Smoking I was very sceptical and thought what a load of crap how can a book stop me smoking and to be honest i still don`t know but it did and i have not had any urge to smoke or craved nicotine at all. I would recommend anyone who wants to stop to give it a go the book only cost`s around a fiver about the same as a pack of fags and if you still want to smoke what have you lost.


cheers

Damien

I stopped smoking this way about 5 years ago, and would recommend it to anyone who really wants to stop smoking. The Alan Carr book is really effective, but the overriding factor in any of the techniques you try is you have to really want to stop.
The best of luck to anyone who's intending to do it.
Doug

[Matt-75]

The book(s) werent effective for me. But 9 months of patches and lozenges were. Do the patches for 3 months, then get really mega addicted to the lozenges, then when you start getting symptoms of acute nicotine poisoning, quit taking them.

At worst you will really crave a lozenge, but actual cigarettes no longer trigger a response.

[ChristianG]

[quote=SilvaFish;828826]As others have said, I wouldn't touch antidepressants with a bargepole, especially with diving. Otherwise, if you're anything like me, who can't prise open their eyes before 9am on a work morning on these darker days, then the days seem to get longer far quicker than they got dark! (Poor Australian's, lol!)

Huh? Wot's it got to do with Aussies? We happen to have exactly as much daylight as you except that ours is rather more evenly distributed.

As for smoking, I never have and my father gave up "cold turkey" without much of a problem at all. Mind that was in the days before all these "helpful" drugs. My mother never could, never attempted it either.

Personally I cannot understand, in principle, the taking of one (or more) drugs to help stop the taking of another.

[blondie]

Well i'm one who had no side effects whatsoever on zyban and i dived all the way thru taking it.... had no problems but that was me, not something i'd recommend others do. Ok i started smoking again but the patches helped me quit again and have just bought another load of patches to give up again next week.

Good luck whatever you try!

[SilvaFish]

[quote=ChristianG;831085]

Originally Posted by SilvaFish

As others have said, I wouldn't touch antidepressants with a bargepole, especially with diving. Otherwise, if you're anything like me, who can't prise open their eyes before 9am on a work morning on these darker days, then the days seem to get longer far quicker than they got dark! (Poor Australian's, lol!)

Huh? Wot's it got to do with Aussies? We happen to have exactly as much daylight as you except that ours is rather more evenly distributed.

As for smoking, I never have and my father gave up "cold turkey" without much of a problem at all. Mind that was in the days before all these "helpful" drugs. My mother never could, never attempted it either.

Personally I cannot understand, in principle, the taking of one (or more) drugs to help stop the taking of another.

I originally posted this very close to the winter equinox, ie our shortest day, hence it was a tongue in cheek remark. So our days are starting to lengthen, whilst those at the south of the Equator are starting to shorten. You're in Sidney, so probably won't see the effects that much, than if you were in say, New Zealand. Unless you're in somewhere like Singapore, you wouldn't see or feel the effects at all! Even in Hong Kong (where I am originally from), between winter and summer, there is a couple of hours difference.

As for smoking, am glad you never have. But for those of us that have, and are, wouldn't life be much easier if we only had to battle one thing at a time? And yes, I do find it strange that help out there to get off the cigarettes involves giving the smoker the same drug that they are trying to get off! Speaking from personal experience, doing it the cold turkey way suits me better; the physical addiction lasts a few days. The psychological addiction, however is alot longer. When smokers start to believe that they don't need cigarettes, that's when we start to win the battle.

And no one expects people to understand, unless they've been there themselves. Seasonal affected disorder - roll on summer, and what is not discussed widely, is that for sufferers, things go the opposite way and that's when I pack in loads of overtime at work to make up for the winter months

[Aerodive]

[quote=SilvaFish;831107]

Originally Posted by ChristianG

I originally posted this very close to the winter equinox, ie our shortest day, hence it was a tongue in cheek remark. So our days are starting to lengthen, whilst those at the south of the Equator are starting to shorten. You're in Sidney, so probably won't see the effects that much, than if you were in say, New Zealand. Unless you're in somewhere like Singapore, you wouldn't see or feel the effects at all! Even in Hong Kong (where I am originally from), between winter and summer, there is a couple of hours difference.

As for smoking, am glad you never have. But for those of us that have, and are, wouldn't life be much easier if we only had to battle one thing at a time? And yes, I do find it strange that help out there to get off the cigarettes involves giving the smoker the same drug that they are trying to get off! Speaking from personal experience, doing it the cold turkey way suits me better; the physical addiction lasts a few days. The psychological addiction, however is alot longer. When smokers start to believe that they don't need cigarettes, that's when we start to win the battle.

And no one expects people to understand, unless they've been there themselves. Seasonal affected disorder - roll on summer, and what is not discussed widely, is that for sufferers, things go the opposite way and that's when I pack in loads of overtime at work to make up for the winter months

just stopped short of booking a week in sharm.

Will spend the money later in the year when i've made some!

When you add up fuel+secure parking+time off+duty free+holiday spends or extras it gets a bit hard to justify at the moment!