Re: Zyban

[Guest guest]

Well,

Thanks everyone for your input on this oh so touchy subject. I feel

better knowing that I am not alone, but not better knowing that you

all are going through the same feelings..

I am going to set my date for sometime in December..I need to get my

script filled, I guess I'm going to try it. I can't live with the

shame anymore, that's the worst sometimes I think, when people act

like I am very pathetic, and they get this " oh you poor weak smoking

thing " look in their eyes.

I did find a good section in Webmd about quitting, a lot of it

pertains to women's issues with quitting, apparently we suffer more

mentally than men with this addiction.

http://my.webmd.com/content/article/1689.50666

there's more too, if anyone is interested.

Thanks again,

Val

[Guest guest]

Thanks Jody,

The interesting part is " being weaned off of the welbutrin " . I shall check

into this. In

the study, we were given handfuls of the stuff, and never told to take them in

any order.

So when I was randomly placed in the placebo group, I don't see how I could have

been

'weaned'. Good thing to know to find out ahead of time.

-Pam-

[Guest guest]

Thanks Jody,

The interesting part is " being weaned off of the welbutrin " . I shall check

into this. In

the study, we were given handfuls of the stuff, and never told to take them in

any order.

So when I was randomly placed in the placebo group, I don't see how I could have

been

'weaned'. Good thing to know to find out ahead of time.

-Pam-

[Guest guest]

my Endo said that it's a weaning thing, she prescribed it for 6 weeks

at the lowest dose (since I dont smoke much) and then in the seventh

week the dose it brought to nothing. However, the weaning only takes a

week, which seems weird.

On another note, Terry, I feel blessed that my hubby doesn't smoke and

there is no smoking indoors here. I know even I can't go into a smoky

bar to shoot a game of pool, I'm just not used to that much smoke. I

think that's one reason though, it's so hard for me. Hardly anyone

knows I smoke. When it comes down to violent mood swings and deep

depressions versus hiding (what seems like in my depression) a teeny

tiny addiction, I always fail.

My hubby knows I smoke, but not too many others..

Anyhow, when I become the group's new guinea pig for Zyban/Welbutrin I

will let you all know what happens.

Val

[Guest guest]

Hi all,

I don't know if anyone here wants to hear this story...but I stopped 20

years ago. Why and how? Because my newborn son had such bad asthma that we

thought we'd lose him. I can't tell you how much of an incentive something

like that is. We both quit at the same time, and stayed quit. It was

literally life or death for Joe. No drugs, no gum, no nothing. Gained a (um)

" bit " of weight and were ready to chew each others' heads off for a while

for sure. Had emotional lows that we somehow struggled through, knowing that

we had *no* choice.

But that brings up the second bit, about not being able to do it one at a

time: we had to do it together. If I'd still been smoking and he not, or

visa versa, it would never have worked.

Now I am irritated no end by smoke, and thankful to live in sunny CA where

you can't smoke most places. Even people who only smoke occasionally, I can

tell as soon as they walk into a room.

Another thing that was very dramatic was taking the pictures off the

wall--try it if you smoke inside. You'll be amazed at the difference in the

clean wall behind and the grubby, smoky surround.

Terry

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[Guest guest]

Hi all,

I don't know if anyone here wants to hear this story...but I stopped 20

years ago. Why and how? Because my newborn son had such bad asthma that we

thought we'd lose him. I can't tell you how much of an incentive something

like that is. We both quit at the same time, and stayed quit. It was

literally life or death for Joe. No drugs, no gum, no nothing. Gained a (um)

" bit " of weight and were ready to chew each others' heads off for a while

for sure. Had emotional lows that we somehow struggled through, knowing that

we had *no* choice.

But that brings up the second bit, about not being able to do it one at a

time: we had to do it together. If I'd still been smoking and he not, or

visa versa, it would never have worked.

Now I am irritated no end by smoke, and thankful to live in sunny CA where

you can't smoke most places. Even people who only smoke occasionally, I can

tell as soon as they walk into a room.

Another thing that was very dramatic was taking the pictures off the

wall--try it if you smoke inside. You'll be amazed at the difference in the

clean wall behind and the grubby, smoky surround.

Terry

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[Guest guest]

Hi all,

I don't know if anyone here wants to hear this story...but I stopped 20

years ago. Why and how? Because my newborn son had such bad asthma that we

thought we'd lose him. I can't tell you how much of an incentive something

like that is. We both quit at the same time, and stayed quit. It was

literally life or death for Joe. No drugs, no gum, no nothing. Gained a (um)

" bit " of weight and were ready to chew each others' heads off for a while

for sure. Had emotional lows that we somehow struggled through, knowing that

we had *no* choice.

But that brings up the second bit, about not being able to do it one at a

time: we had to do it together. If I'd still been smoking and he not, or

visa versa, it would never have worked.

Now I am irritated no end by smoke, and thankful to live in sunny CA where

you can't smoke most places. Even people who only smoke occasionally, I can

tell as soon as they walk into a room.

Another thing that was very dramatic was taking the pictures off the

wall--try it if you smoke inside. You'll be amazed at the difference in the

clean wall behind and the grubby, smoky surround.

Terry

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[Guest guest]

Hi Pam,

That is what our former primary told my husband, not to just quit them but

to go off slowly...as I said, he is our *former* primary

Jody

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