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- From: das@canctr.mc.duke.edu
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Nicotine Withdrawal Help Needed
- Message-ID: <8283@news.duke.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 04:27:04 GMT
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- Organization: Duke U. Med. Ctr., Durham, NC
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- I am trying to quit smoking for health reasons (what other reasons are
- there? :-) ). Now, I've done a lot all ready... I've cut down to light
- cigarettes, and down to half a pack a day. I can smoke as little as 6
- 0.6 mg cigs a day but have reached a point where I can't smoke any more
- than 12 without feeling like my lungs are glued together. You might ask
- where I'm going with this. I'll tell you.
-
- I receive less nicotine from my current levels of smoking than are provided
- in the lowest dosage nicotine patch.
-
- I have TMJ and can't chew Nicorette gum. (I know because I've got a box of
- the stuff aging in my medicine chest.)
-
- So... the doctor wants me to go cold turkey. So, I'm trying. I've gone
- 24 hours without a cigarette (I cheated 2 hrs ago and had a 0.2 mg ultra
- light cigarette, durn it) and I'm climbing the walls. I only smoked 4 cigs
- yesterday so by two this afternoon my hands were shaking and I couldn't
- concentrate on a darn thing. I've been to classes countless times but
- because of the timing (no, this is NOT a new years resolution type of thing)
- the leader of my latest group isn't available. My roommate is out of town
- for the next ten days and I've GOT to get through the worst of this before
- she returns - also, the next term starts in about two weeks and my boss is
- course director for a graduate level class to I've got to have my wits about
- me. In the meantime, my doctor expects me to have followed her orders before
- I see her in March or I might get thrown out of the health program I'm
- involved in. I guess they figure that info will motivate me or something.
- Guess it's working. Anyway, I'm rambling.
-
- The main point is: I'm going crazy!!! I'm climbing the walls. My hands are
- shaking. I can't keep a thought in my head long enough to work out a
- coherent sentence much less an entire paragraph. I'm not gonna make it if
- I can't find SERIOUS motivation, and soon. I figure if I can go at least 24
- hrs without cheating by Friday at the latest, I'll have a better chance than
- I've got right now.
-
- 1) Is there a Smoke-Ender's type support group on the Net?
-
- 2) What are your worst horror stories about what smoking does to a persons
- lungs, general health, etc. Can anybody out there SCARE me into
- quitting?
-
- Thanks folks. I need all the help I can get. (Just keeping my fingers on the
- keys and typing this message has helped a wee bit. (-: )
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- Lora M. LeMosy
- 71544.467@compuserve.com (preferred) -or- das@canctr.mc.duke.edu
- -or- steege@bchm.biochem.duke.edu (12/30 only)
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