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Ive heaqd champion x is good? Makes fags make you feel sick.
Anyone give them a go?

If you mean Champix Rude then yes they do make you feel sick, then you just taste nothing and the craving goes totally. I'm on them for the third time now, but this time I want to give up for me, not because of the money

By now I have usually had about 10 but so far I've had 4 - they're kicking in again

I'm satisfied that by this time next week I'll be a non smoker again (also may stop certain people nagging me )

Where's your will power lass? You've got to want to pack up and then just do it. Easy for an ex-smoker to say.

Yes, i meant champix. Lol. Well done you!!
Im thinking of giving them a try-does food taste bad too?

ooh get you mr smug! Lol

Ah come on Rudy, I was just saying and trying to be positive and helpful. At least my lungs are not hanging there like a pair of manx kippers now so I have to try and help.

Ex-smokers are always the worst

Rude
I did it with Champix - nearly 8 months now.I always siad that if they made a tablet that would make me stop with little effort then I would take it - they did so I did!!!!
One tip - my Drs wouldn't give them to me until I'd gone through the Nictoine Replacement therapy course. I expected to be greeted like the prodigal daughter when I went and asked for the tablets. When they wouldn't give them to me, I nearly fell at the first fence! I was soooo upset having made the decision after nearly 40 years. I'm glad I stuck with it though.
I highly recommend them.

Thanks v much. At least now i know what to expect. I'd have been gutted trekking up the docs only to get patches! Ive tryed them but not in the proper way- one time i ran out of fags and used a patch to take the edge off til i cud get fresh supply in.
I think it will be champix or nothing. I hate feeling sick.
Well done to you tho. 40 years wow!! Ive done 24 years.
Yikes! Just worked that out and im shocked.

Rude.
I just played the waiting game with the NRT. I went every week and told them what they wanted to hear. I know it's wrong but to me, the end justified the means. After 8 weeks I got my Champix!
As for the feeling sick - Most people can control it by drinking loads of water when you take the tablets and that seems to mask it.
You think 24 years is a shock - in the 7.5 months I have not spent £1155 on ciggies!!!!!!

Now thats a sickening thought-the amount of money spent on smokes.
Have you saved it? Plan to do anything nice? Or was the money just 'swallowed up' in the housekeeping or whatever?

Not saved as such but the end of the month seems to come sooner

No need to ask if I saved, 100 a day it's a no brainer. Keep thinking of packing in the ale but the company is too good. The way prices are going now though........?????

I'm in the process of trying to give up, i've tried before and failed!but my Dr says i have to try because my cholestrel is high,and that i am at high risk of a heart attack or stroke within the next 10yrs, so as you can guess that has frightened me!! in the last 2 days i have cut down to 2/3 a day, but it's so hard not to have one, i can't stop just like that, i have to cut down and go longer and longer in between, i think i am doing well seeing as i was on 15/20 a day, and i rolled my own cos it was cheaper!
any hints or tips? how did you get over the cravings?

Although I gave up with the help of Champix but I still got cravings. I don't like mints but do like cough candy and pear drops - these sweets helped enormously whenever I had a craving. Some people say that a glass of water helps.
My biggest tip would be that when you get a craving - don't sit there thinking about it. Get up and do something to take your mind off it.
Good Luck