IndigoChilde

I've heard you shouldn't use two NRT products at the same time because you risk nicotine overdose, same as if you smoke while using the patch. I'd follow up on that with your doctor. But if you aren't having symptoms of overdose you're probably fine. I'm thinking of trying the patch again with this quit, though I got a rash last time, but it didn't itch. I wonder if I was allergic to the patch, or the area just got irritated. But if it helps you not smoke, I say go for it. It helped me when I was in a mental institution where I couldn't smoke. Makes me wonder why I went back to smoking after not smoking for a few days.

I'm trying to get back into a smoking cessation class again (it's free for Kaiser members) and working with my psychiatrist to help with my depression. They've changed my meds so I'm not as depressed anymore. Now I just need to get my quit to stick. I'm hoping the classes will help with that. It's what I did last time.

I relapsed after a 3 month quit, and I have to say, I didn't miss smoking at all at first. Then around the three month mark I was so depressed I really didn't care if I was killing myself, and I was almost willing to commit suicide. Smoking was on my mind almost 24 hours a day and I sank further and further into depression. On another quit board, someone else is almost through their fourth month and they've been dealing with worse than I went through, at about the same time. So, it happens that you'll deal with bad days, maybe even longer. But you can't let the fear control you. I couldn't take it anymore and smoked, and someone else is going through worse and still managing their quit by coming on the boards and talking/typing through it. You can rock your quit if you come on the boards often, and post in SOS when you think you're going to fail. NOPE pledge every day. And just keep it up. I didn't do that. Instead of talking through it, I caved, when I should have been posting in SOS and keeping in contact with everyone.

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Wean yourself off the patch if you can, but I say if it helps, at least you didn't smoke! What level patch did you put on? Not a 1st level patch, I hope.

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You've got this Evelyn! Remember you've got a lot of support here!

NOPE!

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Thanks. It helps watching these videos. I know I watched a ton of them when I first stopped smoking.

Thanks! I'll talk to my psychiatrist and my therapist about my depression after quitting smoking. So far because of my depression they've raised my level of Geodon and taken me down on my Klonopin, hoping that part of the problem was feeling medicated. So far that's helping, but I'm still depressed, just not as much. I've heard of an antidepressant that's particularly for bipolar.

I'm interested. I've been having trouble quitting a second time and was thinking of NRT, because I'm not doing well trying it cold turkey.

Well done both of you! I wish I could get my mom to quit. She's lost nearly all her teeth from smoking. She says it's from something else (don't remember what) but I know it's from smoking. My dad lost a few teeth before he quit too. I hope to quit before I start losing teeth. I'm scared my mom will die of cancer or something if she doesn't quit smoking. I love my dad and mom both, maybe my dad a little more, and I don't want to see her suffering and going to the afterlife in her 60's or something. Well, I don't want to see her suffering at all, nor going to the afterlife, but I know everyone dies sooner or later. I just don't know what I'm going to do without my mom. It feels silly to say that as an adult, but she's still my mommy at heart.

lol Thanks Pork. I needed that. I recommended to someone that they keep a list of reasons not to smoke around the house. I still haven't done it. I'll have to do that today. I'll even put one where the cigarettes are so when I'm tempted if I go there, I'll see my list and read it out loud.

Before mom stopped hiding her cigarettes I did well on my quit. But after she stopped, that temptation grew bigger and bigger. I ruined a 3 month quit. And that meant I was out of the icky threes. Now I'm starting all over again, but she isn't hiding her cigarettes still so that temptation is still there. I wish my mom would just quit with me. I know I have to deal with the temptations other places, but it'd be nice if I didn't have to at home. I want to throw the cigs out so bad. Or maybe just have mom keep the lighter with her or something, instead of right next to the cigs. SOMETHING. I'm hanging on to my disgust of them and how bad they made me feel, but it's not easy. I got about halfway through today when I gave in. Tomorrow, I hope I can make it the whole day and get back started on my quit. I don't know how you do it, Porky. But you're definitely someone to look up to.

NOPE!

NOPE!

I wish that was true, but I'm bipolar and when I quit smoking, after I got off the Wellbutrin, I started getting more and more depressed.

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I can't get rid of them, they're my mom's cigarettes. I haven't bought a pack since I moved in with my parents. My mom hid them when I started my quit before, but then she started keeping them out in the open. I need to not go out in the backyard in the mornings, I know that much. Oh, I also had trouble with depression after my doctor took me off the Wellbutrin (due to suicidal thoughts) so I was really depressed by the time I relapsed, and I'm going to talk to my psychiatrist and my therapist about my depression, because I know that affects impulse control, so hopefully taking care of the depression is going to help with quitting as well.

Late Happy Birthday Boo!

Sorry guys, I managed a few days then relapsed back into smoking last week. I keep waking up every morning telling myself I will not smoke, go about what I was doing before when I was not smoking, then after some time I get that urge and wind up outside smoking if there's a half left there, and there always is. I know I need to not go outside and check, but I keep getting pulled there. I swear every night I go to bed I'm jazzed and telling myself I will not smoke tomorrow, and wake up telling myself I will not smoke today, then it happens and I don't know why I can't seem to stop! I'm going crazy. I quit before, why is it so hard now? I feel like utter crap but I pick up that cig anyway. I keep watching Joel's videos, reading Allen Carr, and I don't smoke when I'm out of the house! My dad and I will go out for hours on the weekends and I don't bring any cigs with me and don't get a single craving, but being alone in the morning with my thoughts I keep going out and taking that first puff. I've gotten longer and longer times before I smoke, and I've found that telling myself I don't want to smoke during the day prolongs the time between smokes (I even made it two hours). I'm thinking of waking up tomorrow and telling myself I don't want to smoke and see if that helps. But something's gotta give here, and I don't want it to always be me giving in. I'm trying everything in my toolbox and nothing's working. Not my candy, not sipping water, not coffee (I drank a lot more coffee in place of smoking), not going for walks. I even still go for a run every other morning with my dad. And when my dad's home I smoke less. I don't know why. I can't take smoking anymore, it makes me feel miserable, so why can't I stop?

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