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Cotinine/Nicotine

I am soon going to have to take a nicotine blood test for insurance, if do not pass insurance costs will...

Posted by lovintheocean

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Reply: ANY ONE TRYING TO QUIT

While quitting before I meant. Love auto correct

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Reply: Two key reasons why teens vape

I'm glad to hear that your daughter no longer smokes cigarettes or vapes. Everyone's journey is different...

Posted by editor_morgan

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Reply: The Last Time I Quit

Hi jmosb, Craving and withdrawal symptoms are completely normal when smokers quit. However, there is...

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Reply: Acne from withdrawing cigarettes?

Hi Acruzzx19, Here is a similar thread that I think you will find very useful. Another user also...

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Reply: will e-cigs help quitting

Hi kay0616, I would speak with my doctor about the pros and cons of e-cigarettes and do some research...

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Reply: Allie0419

Hi Allie0419, I can't tell you how happy I am that you've decided to quit smoking! You are without a...

Posted by editor_morgan

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Reply: smoking cessation

Hi Kulyn, First off, congratulations! That is quite the achievement and you should be very proud of...

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will e-cigs help quitting

I've tried quitting several times over the last couple of years. gum, mints, Rx, e-cigs but the pat couple of...

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Reply: 42 year old and trying to stop smoking

The CDC has a Quit line 1-800-784-8669 as well as a website that is both informative and supportive ...

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Reply: How long for nicotine to leave your system

It takes approximately 48 hours for nicotine to be out of your system. Good luck with your surgery!!

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Reply: I"m going to try!

Explain how important this is to you and ask him if he would stop smoking in the house, and in the car. But...

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Reply: I quit after 35 years, will my lungs ever get bett...

Hi, Your Dad needs to be seen by a doctor. And maybe a mental health professional. If need be, if there are...

Posted by poppyrat

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Help!! I want and need to quit smoking but it's ju...

I REALLY want and need to quit it's so difficult!!! I don't know where to begin!! Please help if anyone can

Posted by An_267128

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I don't feel better, I feel worse???

I am 40 years old. have been smoking for 20 years. I became sick with acute bronchitis over a month...

Posted by quitafter20years

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Need Support while Quitting Cigaretts

Greetings all..I am sooooo wanting to quit smoking, but have no support . All my friends smoke, I live alone,...

Posted by An_267095

Greetings all..I am sooooo wanting to quit smoking, but have no support . All my friends smoke, I live alone, retired nurse(go figure) and have smoked everyday for the past 50 plus years, a pack a day..I am so sick of the smell, and financial burden, the knowledge I am addicted to a small long thin stinky smokey thing..My fear is going Cold Turkey, which is what I plan to do. I don't want to take a drug to quit, heck why quit one drug for another, makes no logical sense to me. I FEAR WITHDRAW, the Unknown, and with no support, or encouragement I know its gonna be hard. I need someones support who understands and has walked the walk. Would love to hear from anyone who is going thru this, or is beginning the journey, as I am. I have one pk left, and I have been TRYING to limit what I take out. I want so much to be free of this substance that has really robbed my of my ability to enjoy things without worrying about where or if I can afford a pack of cigarettes. That's shameful to me and very degrading. Everything is smoke free now, workplaces, apartments, just about everywhere you love to go, and feel like a criminal standing outside off the the side takin a drag, because your weak, or really under a serious addiction. I am sick of feeling like a second hand citizen , and looked upon as some kind of hood rat. I am an educated woman who raised two successful daughters as a single mother. I have been thru the thunderstorms of everything anyone could fathom. But, cant say no to a cigarette. I wonder why its seems so easy for Men to just quit. Women are really the stronger and more determined not to mention just a worthy, then why is it so much harder for Women than a man to just stop,throw the things out the window and go about your daily activities like IT AINT NO BIG THING. Most people I have talked to wouldn't quit because of weight, well everyone gains and looses weight, besides at my age, if I gain weight its just Gods way of preparing me for puree food. Not a joking matter, I know, but there has to be a happy medium some where. I was raised in a home where My dad smoked but my Mother never did. None of my 2 sisters smoke, and my daughters don't as well..Me, well, I was the youngest of 3 girls, and always marched to my own tune. Not defiant, but basically did what I felt was acceptable. Back in the day it was cool ta smoke, everyone did it, either the plain ones like Lucky Strike, Old Golds, or Camels, that I use to sneak out of the cigarette dish on our coffee table. Old Golds was my first smoke. Dad caught me, and took me down into our cellar, sat me on an old wooden box, handed me a pipe, cigar, and a cigarette..smoked'em all and never blinked an eye.That should have been my first red flag that I was gonna be a smoker, cause I liked it. Started in the 60's up until 2016. Common sense should tell me ITS TIME TO QUIT. My overall health is good. But I can feel myself slowing down a lot these days. Not much energy, and just so tired of having that feeling that everyone else can catch a whiff of an old woman as she passes buy. Not the smell of mold, moth balls, liquor, or old socks, but the smell of stale smoke. That always offended me, and I am a smoker as well. What do people that I pass along the street, mall, grocery store etc; smell? I can tell ya. its stale Cigarette smoke, and that is offensive to me. I have asked myself this question so many times, Why don't you just quit, never tried to, why? Because everyone else was. Sad but true. Now this was 40 years ago, now times have changed, as well as the social stigma associated with smokers. I don't know if this Discussion is appropriate, for this forum, but this is my truth. I wonder how many other people have had the same thoughts as I have had for many years but were too afraid, to take a different approach. Today there are so many self help groups, drugs to curb the desire(which I flat refuse to take) Group therapies,etc; As for me, I want to smell nothing but my perfume.View Thread

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Need Support while Quitting Cigaretts

Greetings all..I am sooooo wanting to quit smoking, but have no support . All my friends smoke, I live alone,...

Posted by An_267095

Greetings all..I am sooooo wanting to quit smoking, but have no support . All my friends smoke, I live alone, retired nurse(go figure) and have smoked everyday for the past 50 plus years, a pack a day..I am so sick of the smell, and financial burden, the knowledge I am addicted to a small long thin stinky smokey thing..My fear is going Cold Turkey, which is what I plan to do. I don't want to take a drug to quit, heck why quit one drug for another, makes no logical sense to me. I FEAR WITHDRAW, the Unknown, and with no support, or encouragement I know its gonna be hard. I need someones support who understands and has walked the walk. Would love to hear from anyone who is going thru this, or is beginning the journey, as I am. I have one pk left, and I have been TRYING to limit what I take out. I want so much to be free of this substance that has really robbed my of my ability to enjoy things without worrying about where or if I can afford a pack of cigarettes. That's shameful to me and very degrading. Everything is smoke free now, workplaces, apartments, just about everywhere you love to go, and feel like a criminal standing outside off the the side takin a drag, because your weak, or really under a serious addiction. I am sick of feeling like a second hand citizen , and looked upon as some kind of hood rat. I am an educated woman who raised two successful daughters as a single mother. I have been thru the thunderstorms of everything anyone could fathom. But, cant say no to a cigarette. I wonder why its seems so easy for Men to just quit. Women are really the stronger and more determined not to mention just a worthy, then why is it so much harder for Women than a man to just stop,throw the things out the window and go about your daily activities like IT AINT NO BIG THING. Most people I have talked to wouldn't quit because of weight, well everyone gains and looses weight, besides at my age, if I gain weight its just Gods way of preparing me for puree food. Not a joking matter, I know, but there has to be a happy medium some where. I was raised in a home where My dad smoked but my Mother never did. None of my 2 sisters smoke, and my daughters don't as well..Me, well, I was the youngest of 3 girls, and always marched to my own tune. Not defiant, but basically did what I felt was acceptable. Back in the day it was cool ta smoke, everyone did it, either the plain ones like Lucky Strike, Old Golds, or Camels, that I use to sneak out of the cigarette dish on our coffee table. Old Golds was my first smoke. Dad caught me, and took me down into our cellar, sat me on an old wooden box, handed me a pipe, cigar, and a cigarette..smoked'em all and never blinked an eye.That should have been my first red flag that I was gonna be a smoker, cause I liked it. Started in the 60's up until 2016. Common sense should tell me ITS TIME TO QUIT. My overall health is good. But I can feel myself slowing down a lot these days. Not much energy, and just so tired of having that feeling that everyone else can catch a whiff of an old woman as she passes buy. Not the smell of mold, moth balls, liquor, or old socks, but the smell of stale smoke. That always offended me, and I am a smoker as well. What do people that I pass along the street, mall, grocery store etc; smell? I can tell ya. its stale Cigarette smoke, and that is offensive to me. I have asked myself this question so many times, Why don't you just quit, never tried to, why? Because everyone else was. Sad but true. Now this was 40 years ago, now times have changed, as well as the social stigma associated with smokers. I don't know if this Discussion is appropriate, for this forum, but this is my truth. I wonder how many other people have had the same thoughts as I have had for many years but were too afraid, to take a different approach. Today there are so many self help groups, drugs to curb the desire(which I flat refuse to take) Group therapies,etc; As for me, I want to smell nothing but my perfume.View Thread

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Reply: Wanting to quit....When to Start?

Hey paulan..I am in the same boat chile..I want so bad to quit, and fear the Cold Turkey...

Posted by Lifeflite

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Reply: I am controlled by cigarettes

Hi my name is Eric. I have a hypnotherapy service called Mind desires. I do hypnosis via Skype. I also...

Posted by Evolvetheworld

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10 years ago, I was known as Mary the Cat Lady (MT...

Ten years ago, this discussion board *immensely* helped me as I started on my quit journey. I have...

Posted by MTCL2point0

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Admitting and Committing

I have known I need to quit, but just wouldn't admit and commit to doing it! I had quit COLD TURKEY OVER...

Posted by Meemawofmany

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Reply: Electronic cigarettes CAN deliver nicotine

Hi I realize I am probably way late as my response to your comment is 5 years late; but I wanted to let you...

Posted by Uhlizza

Hi I realize I am probably way late as my response to your comment is 5 years late; but I wanted to let you know that my story is similar, I smoked for many years and now am an e0sig only vaper. The thought of wanting a cigarette is disgusting... but your comment struck a chord in me when you said "I had no withdrawal symptoms, because I still use nicotine".

My reply to this if you haven't already; you should know that nicotine is a poison, I used to use my ashtrays dumping them in a jug of water then spraying on the perimeter of my house to keep the ants out. It is a powerful insecticide being that it is poison. I loved the new e-cig after doing lot of research then smoking for two weeks and adjusting my e-cig routine to me. My motivation though too is that I have Kidney disease; with that, I wanted to and still do keep my exposure to toxicity at a minimal. You should too, everyone should.

I never suffered withdrawal either. I purchased a large bottle of 0 mg. solution the flavor to my suiting, and the mg of nicotine as needed during my decent. What I did was every two weeks or so I would mix a batch of juice with the 0 mg and the [whatever mg, as that changed as I lowered down in mg of nicotine> I dropped 2 mg. never more otherwise I became really bitchy for a couple days. So over a period of about 9 months I went from the fluid or cartridges that I used at the time from 24 mg to 0 for over 2 years. I hardly spend anything on the activity ow as I don't inhale but still enjoy the flavors, and 'enjoy the something to do with your hands' aspect I had when I smoked.

So if you didn't figure out it's a little bit better on your health to at least eliminate easily the nicotine factor; you're even closer to being toxin free. Why not? I thought I would share it could be done easily by a very addictive person such as myself who figured I would go to my grave due to the smoke but was helpless to quit, until the e-cig. Thanks e-cig industry! I hope you'll become very rich and the tobacco people can go to jail for getting a bunch of people hooked!View Thread

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Reply: Quit dipping

I quit using a support forum full of no one but ex-dippers (some of them used to smoke too). They teach you...

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Need help with final hurdel...

Trying to stop smoking after decades of puffing. Down to 1/3 cigs per day, after a pack a day habit. Can't...

Posted by freedom2438

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Need help with final hurdel...

Trying to stop smoking after decades of puffing. Down to 1/3 cigs per day, after a pack a day habit. Can't...

Posted by freedom2438

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Reply: False positive for cotinine

Nope, no Shaekology for me. But knowing how stressed it was making me, my GP ordered a re-test for me a...

Posted by marathonjan

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VDND - Find Vaping Discounts and Cheap Vaping Deal...

Vaping Deals N' Discounts is your source for finding cheap vaping deals across the web! We are one of the...

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Another Quest Fail

Appreciate all the posts. I too received a false positive for cotinine through Quest, which performs my...

Posted by An_266189

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Another Quest Fail

Appreciate all the posts. I too received a false positive for cotinine through Quest, which performs my...

Posted by An_266189

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