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SavageFaerie -> RE: I just Smoked my last cigarette! (8/22/2008 6:34:01 PM)
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Any one with tips for someone with severe anxiety disorder which when happens turns into a radicial need to smoke?
I can even get down to 3-4 a day, but that was with the help of 300mg wellibutrin which my dr just did a meds change and took me off. I so nervous that the need or addiction will climb. I have tried cold turkey, what a laugh didnt last a day. I have tried patches, didnt work, panic attacks overrode the niciotine I was getting through the patches, Tried the gum, I thought my stomach was going to go on strike.
As I said the wellbrutrin dosage which normally is dispensed at 150 mg ( same thing as Zyban). I was on a dose twice that and now I have been off them a few days. Im working hard to keep the urge from rising but that med isnt completly out of my system yet.
When I do smoke I never smoke a full one just enough to take that nervous edge off.
Even talked to the dr about it and he said with the severity of my condition getting off completely will be a hard faught battle. But I just cant let go of the last of it....never made it to zero for more than one or two days. It sucks that my brain is counter productive with this. If I get down to one of two in a pack, my panic sets in over that. So its a vicious never ending cycle.
My father died 2 years ago with dozens of complications from smoking all his life and Im up to year 30 something years with the habit..
props as in hard sugar free candy, straws ect didnt help, keep my mouth busy but wouldnt get the image that its not nicotine going into my systems. I curse my 13 year old ass for ever picking one up and starting all thoses years ago.
To those who have quit....I envy the hello out of you. To those trying best of luck. I wish I could make that final step.
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