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Way back in the day, lol, they had face-to-face support groups. Imagine that? 40 Years of Progress? I am attaching an article below from the January 19, 2004 issue of TIME magazine. It talks about the decline in smoking rates in America since the original release of the U.S. Surgeon General's report in January of 1964. The author was apparently led to believe that a whole lot more quitters would be successful if they would just stop trying to go cold turkey and use the many quitting aids available that can "double a person's chance of success." One thing I want to comment on is how the article points out that smoking declined from 42% to 23% in the past 40 years, but how the drop-off stalled in 1990. The dates are interesting. The article is saying that there are a whole lot more effective ways to quit than by going cold turkey. It is basically talking about NRT products and Zyban. What is interesting is that almost all of these products came into widespread use in the 1990's--the years where the rapid decline in smoking cessation actually stopped. Nicotine gum was first approved for use in America in 1984, by prescription only. In 1991 and 1992, four patches were approved for prescription use. In 1996 all controls broke loose--the gum and two of the four patches went over-the-counter and Zyban (bupropion) was just coming into the fray. So now we have all of these miracle products available, many without prescription. If these products were so good at increasing success, and if they are being used by so many people, you would think that smoking rates would be plummeting now when compared to when people just had to rely on their own resolve to quit. Again, read the following line from the article below: "The drop-off in smoking stalled in 1990 and has hardly budged since then." Lets hope not too many miracle products for smoking cessation get introduced in the future as it may result in skyrocketing smoking rates. The real way to once again increase the long-term success rate of people trying to quit is to help them to understand that they are fighting an addiction to nicotine, and that to win that fight and to stay free forever is as simple as making and sticking to a commitment to Never Take Another Puff! Joel Y O U R T I M E / H E A L T H Stub Out That Butt! But don't try to go it alone. Here are some tricks that make it easier to quit By CHRISTINE GORMAN Monday, Jan. 19, 2004 More than 42% of adult Americans smoked when the first Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health was published. Today, 40 years later, fewer than 23% do. That's good news, but it could be better; a lot better. The drop-off in smoking stalled in 1990 and has hardly budged since then. Surveys show that 70% of tobacco users want to quit, but kicking the nicotine habit isn't easy. What a lot of smokers don't realize is that the most popular method of quitting; just stopping, a.k.a. going cold turkey; is the least effective. Studies show that getting intensive short-term counseling, taking drugs like Zyban (an antidepressant) or using one of the many nicotine aids (gum, patch, inhaler, nasal spray, lozenge) all double the chance of success. Preliminary results suggest that combining these methods will increase success rates even more. The trick is to find out what works best for you. For counseling, you don't have to go into full-fledged psychoanalysis; you can pick up practical strategies from various quit-smoking telephone hotlines (for a list of numbers as well as tips, visit smokefree.gov). As for nicotine products, make sure you're using them the right way. You need to chew the gum slowly, for example, not swallowing the saliva until the nicotine can be absorbed through the cheek, says Dr. Elliot Wineburg, who has used everything from drugs to hypnosis at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City to help hard-core smokers quit. Many people try to make do with as little nicotine as possible, which is a mistake. "You don't want the brain to go into withdrawal," Wineburg says. It's never too late to quit. As the years go by, an ex-smoker's risk of heart disease and stroke diminishes until it's essentially the same as that of a person who has never smoked, says Dr. Corinne Husten of the Centers for Disease Control's Office on Smoking and Health. Alas, the risk of lung cancer never quite gets down to what it would have been without smoking. "Even with cancer, people respond better to chemotherapy if they quit," Husten says. Best of all, of course, would be not to take up the habit in the first place.

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NOPE! No matter what life hurls your way or what disingenuous people do to you, it has nothing to do with your quit. Your quit is more sacred than any of the messiness of life.

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At 3 weeks, being less patient at work etc. has little to do with not smoking. I think you're just fed up and don't correlate having less patience with quitting smoking. The atmosphere and long hours are more likely the cause. How do you stop craving less at work? At this point, it's all mental so when you get this thought, instantly change your focus onto something that requires focus. For example, think about building your dream house, where it would be, what it would look like etc.; anything that requires concentration to shift your thoughts onto something positive. :)

HAHAHAHA That's pretty funny. NOPE!!

I read this and that's all that I needed to see because what followed is irrelevent to you quitting nicotine. The mindset that doing anything you can to not smoke cigarettes is keeping you addicted to nicotine and quite frankly, you're still smoking if you're vaping. You can rationalize all you want, but you're still inhaling nicotine into you lungs; something far different than traditional NRT. Vaping IS NOT NRT. In fact, big tobacco is behind this as it's another way to keep addicts buying their poision. Our belief in this support group is that NRT can be used to help in quitting smoking. However, the goal is to stop nicotine completely and quickly. Vaping is smoking as far as I'm concerned and is not NRT or the most preposterous notion of all, a safe alernative to smoking. I've seen enough, read enough and my bullshit meter over the years has become a very valuable instrument in detecting it. Please don't buy into the bullshit that big tobacco is selling as this is just the next generation of smoking products. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcPcVxA_WaA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAApE5yo3Nc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgqnM7e8aB0

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Thank you for taking care of that!! Spammers; what was it this time? Nevermind, don't wanna know. lol

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hahahahahahahaha This is too funny! :lol2:

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Not for a few more days... :D

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We can't control what thoughts pop into our heads but what we can control is how we act on them. For me, when I think of smoking, it's not a craving - haven't had one of those in a long, long time. I see a massive difference between thinking of smoking and craving a cigarette. Early on, thoughts of smoking can lead to cravings but as time moves forward, those same thoughts will no longer lead to cravings. I never have and never will forget that I was once a smoker. I feel it's this very thought that keeps me grounded and not operating in a place of complacency where I risk entertaining thoughts of "just having one" and the many other junkie seeds which almost always lead to a relapse. Yes, the air is great without a plume of poision engulfing us. What were we thinking? :)

Exactly. Not one single puff ever again! Good Reasons To Take A Puff On A Cigarette After Having Quit Smoking For people who think that there are no good reasons to take a puff on a cigarette after quitting, and more importantly, for people who think that there might actually be good reasons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvHl-zwUdBo&index=47&list=PL4F05C03D0F9B86DB

Congrats!! Keep that strong quit going. :music2: