Help needed
Hi, My doctor wrote me a script for Champix to stop smoking After a few weeks I went back to say that I was doing well and asked if I had another script to get but she said that was it. I have since relapsed after some very stressful situations and now on reading some material online I don't think I was given enough tables ... or am I just sounding like an addictive person :) I started on one packet of Champix, made my date to stop smoking within the next couple of weeks. Stopped smoking and had half of that packet left and one more pack. I had no cigarettes during this time after my quit date. Should I not have had another couple of packs. If anyone could advise me I would be so grateful. Everyone now thinks that I have quit and I am afraid to tell anyone that I am having problems as I know they will be disappointed in me and I really want to stop this time. I have been smoking for 40 years and it is so hard of getting used to ... everything ... without them and I hate being so reliant on them. Thank you in advance to those of you who are further along the road of quitting that could perhaps help and know how difficult this is.
Hi BeBo,
I empathise with you and we are all here for you Dear!
Firstly you are doing this for you! and then your loved one's.
Let's forgive those who you believe would be so upset as they don't know any better and if they did BeBo, they would embrace you for being you and accept you for the courage you have in making the decision to quit in the first place.
Don't be hard on yourself BeBo, like us your human and every smoke free day you have is a good day!
So what, you slipped and fell, just get back up and take another path you will go further this time, and if you don't, get right back up again and just take another path!
All the aids in the world are just there to assist us subconsciously, ultimately you do this yourself and through the grace of god you succeed!
If i may add BeBo, i had to stop drinking in order to stop smoking, i started with patches and bought 3 packets so i don't run out, I still have 2 and a half packets left!
Believe in yourself xx
Trust in what the others have said BeBo. I cannot comment on teh Champoix route as I did not have any. I do know that I have tried to stop before with patches and gim etc. But somehow this time it just feels different and I went cold turkey. I thin kit feels different because I know I have to stop and I know I want to stop and you sound like you have had enough of it too. So just start again and one day at a time. One hour at a time if it comes to it one minute at a time. FOrget what oyjer people may think - just start again and do it for you!
Hi BeBo. I tried Champix last year. I did the course (3mths full course) but felt I needed to do one more. My doctor told me I had to wait 12mths before I could get another script. I have a wonderful doctor. The reason was everyone is only allowed one course a yr. (I don't think you got the full course) Anyway, I went back to smoking & felt really ashamed & disappointed in myself. My kids (13, 11 & 6yrs) were disappointed but lucky for me didn't go on about it as I've explained to them you can't make an addict stop, they have to want to do it for themselves first etc. It took me another year to try again. I was going to do Champix but put a patch on before I went to the doctors again & for some reason or another here I am today, 38 days free. The patches have helped me this time (not other times when I have used them) & I think I really really really had had enough of feeling smelly, dirty, unfit, & not in control, & wasting so much money. It's not always easy but I'm starting to work out ways of replacing smoke time with other things like a walk or sitting quietly with a cuppa & no-one is allowed to interrupt me......Like the others have said, believe in yourself, you are so capable to do this. It's scary. But if you take it day at a time and not look too far into the future and don't put pressure on yourself, maybe it wont be as scary. And maybe don't think of it as life altering but as life enhancing. We know you can do it. I don't think I would have been able to do this without everyone online here. Thanks to you all. Look forward to your next post BeBo
Bebo,
I don't know what happened between you and your doctor, but here is my story so far. I hope it helps you.
My doctor put me on Champix and after a couple of weeks I went back and got the 2nd and 3rd packets as other readers/writers have stated. The doctor advised me that should I need more than I would have to pay for them myself. I am not opposssed to this.
Technically I have completed the course, but I haven't. I was having terrible troubles with dreams, but no other side effects. I thought the price I was paying i.e. dreams, was worth the prize, i.e. being smoke free. Most of the dreams were not bad, they were just really weird and some of them really sinful. I don't know how many times I have committed adultery in my dreams.
I was in the supermarket and going through the checkout when the person who was serving me reached for a packet of cigarettes. I gladly explained that I had given up. The person then had a small chat with me saying that she had given up too. She asked did I have any problems with the Champix and dreams. I said yes and she said she had very similar problems and had decided to take a tablet in the morning only.
I decided to give this a run. The effect was not disimilar, that is the desire to smoke was greatly reduced, but there were fewer dreams. Apart from a couple of small trip ups I have been smoke free since 6th August. The trip ups had nothing to do with the reduced Champix intake, believe me. They were more to do with that other medical condition (depression) that I suffer from.
Anyway the bottom line is this. Despite the fact that I have completed the three month course I still have enough tablets left over to carry me over for another month.
When that is complete I will reconsider where I am up to and might ask the doctor for another script. I am confident he will give it to me but I will have to pay full price, about $250, for it. This might seem expensive, but consider that this will take me through two months, during which time I would normally smoke around $750 of cigarettes. Therefore $250 seems very inexpensive to me.
I ask all readers not to take this as medical advice. I am just telling my story, and that helps me to understand where and what I am up to. If there is something in this story for you I sure hope it helps.
Best wishes everyone.