Comments on: Quitting Smoking can be Harmful to your Health? The US FDA gives a New Warning

By: Diana

Diana — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:23:57 +0000

Hey Phil, Clowns? Econimic Parasites? Who the hell are you to judge anyone?

By: Sharyn

Sharyn — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:15:42 +0000

As a reply to Don H. Says, if they should “Tax the Hell” out of Tobacco because of the cost on the health care industry, then they should also “Tax the Hell” out of the liquor Companies. They not only create liver disaease but also heart, pancreas and how many deaths by drunk drivers. You properly drink and drive. Even if it’s only one beer right? What about the people who choose not to work, and have to go to the emergency room. They run the cost of health care up. As a matter of fact, the people who have insurance usually pay for those who don’t work and have no insurance. Smoking is addiction just like alcoholism, or crack addiction. Nobody chooses to become addicted to any of these drugs, but to single out one group is being prejudice.

By: Julie

Julie — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:26:11 +0000

Laurie,

Speak to your doctor. He can get the pills for you for free from the maker if you are low income.

By: joanne

joanne — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:16:15 +0000

i am using chantix i love it stop nuying cig at 8.76 per pack

By: Byron

Byron — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:14:33 +0000

I’m a little confused on sherry’s statement, you got depressed after quitting for 10 months and then quit taking chantix?
This makes no sense to me, I used chantix and quit taking it right after i quit smoking, which took about 2 months and i’ve not started again been smoke free for around 10 months now.
are you saying you kept taking it after you quit?

By: carol

carol — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:25:18 +0000

that sounds like a good way to quit-I am 51 and had smoked for 36 years-just quit 3 months ago-did it cold turkey-so far so good-(of course have not had any major life event happen to me-to really test me.. but I am feeling confident that I will be able to maintain this)
I tried chantix last year-without great results-it made me feel very empty ( I’ve heard people say lobotomised)and I didn’t ever quit-was down to 3-4 cigs a days).I don’t think I was ready. Then our state raised the cigeratte tax again with my brand going up to over $7 a pack-that was the last straw-so I happened to see this web site QUITNOW-about doing it cold turkey and not relying on any meds -it made sense to me-and so far has worked…..

By: Karin

Karin — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:50:24 +0000

I quit several times for 2 and 4 year periods. Always went back, usually when I was with my smoking family at a wedding or funural. Finally, I went to a hypnotist and quit cold turkey… no withdrawl symmptoms or anything. Now I just know that 1 cigarette will hook me and I don’t ever try one. I’ve been smoke free 6 yrs. I had tried the hypnotist in a group years before without working. This time I went for a privatte session. Costly, but WORTH it!!

By: Mufinmom

Mufinmom — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 09:00:29 +0000

I quit after 25 years by weaning myself off nicotine. It’s all about the nicotine content in the brand. Menthol was the hardest to get “off” of! Then working way down brands
to Carltons. Then, using only 1/2 a cigarette.
It took months. I even scheduled smoking times! So I started to control the habit instead of vice versa. The
steps are easy. Doing and sticking to them was hard! But it did get to the point of detoxing my body to the point where I didn’t “need” it anymore. Smoke free for 12 years now. I hope this helps someone.

By: Theresa

Theresa — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:37:19 +0000

Who really cares about the smoking, and the alcohol is worse the meth crack heads. I smoke have since I was 10 years old. They did not say they were bad for you back then. I choose to smoke. I quit the alcohol 12 years ago. When i kicked my alcoholic cop hubby to the curb after 23 years of marriage and the alcohol went too. If I want to smell like smoke so be it that is my choice, and no one else has the right to tell me any better. If I choose to smell like smoke so be it. Alcohol stinks just as bad. My ex-hubby drank so much it came through his pores. the last 10 years of my marriage I slept on the couch because when I woke in the mornings the whole bedroom reeked of alcohol. He spent a minimum off 500 a month on the stuff. I had to take on extra jobs to provide for my kids. I have lost many friends and family members to cancer. And no they did not all smoked. And articles I have researched in the past on cancer says it is a possible link to family genes. I eat well and dont have high blood pressure and I dont have breathing problems my lungs are clear. So I say WTF. I will die one day but a drunk driver could crash through my house or run me over while walking. When it is your time it is not your choice when where or how. The man upstairs makes that decision.

By: Leroy F. Slater

Leroy F. Slater — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:42:33 +0000

I smoked 2 packs of unfiltered Camels a day for 20 years, I could only quick when I got a cold or flu or sore throat so bad I couldn’t smoke. I stayed quit for 25 years, I felt better and had less colds/flu a year. Now I am smoking 2 packs of Marlboro light menthol a day. BUT, they are real cheap here in the land of warm seas and sunny skies, my extended vacation-retirement home the Philippines. About 58 cents a pack. Because the US tobaco dumps tobacco in every country they can to enshore profits in the years to come. I can only pray and hope that ALL the countries in the world get together and sue the USA government for allowing the export of something known to be bad for peoples health AND there is no innocenttax-payers. AND sue the tobacco companies enough to build hospitals and give free medical care WORLD WIDE. That seems like a good idea to me, I then might start being proud of the USA doing something to cause ALL people to be EQUAL. But now rich think it is okay to make money, until that tumbles, I will stay in self-exile away from the greed.