How to Quit Smoking

[rod]

I would like to ask how to quit smoking using over the counter nicotine replacement therepy remedies.The question I would like is ask is how do I use the remedies if I am on Paxil and Xanax What effect will NRT's have on these medications.

[goldy]

what are the withdrawls from smoking?

[Rita]

I have not had a cigarette since Jan, 28. 1999.
The best thing that helped me was to do a lot of Praying and
positive speaking on the lines of quitting.  I am 42 yr old and
God knows how many times I quit, Ha, Ha. I did a lot of deep breathing and thinking postive. The patch helped a lot also.

[Gerald H. Gray]

My question is one of scientific curiosity: Has medical science
ever established the reason why some people have a much greater
tolerance to the ill-effects of smoking than others? That is, why  can some smoke for such a long time without serious side
effects ( although it allways catches up with you) than others.
My father was a case in point: smoked from 15 until 65.Emphysema gave him no choice but to quit then. Got jaw cancer at 74. Took
half his face off. Got lung cancer at 79, died on the operating
table-heart attack.
  Hoagy Carmichael lived to to be 82-died of a heart attack. I
don't know of his health problems in the final years-I do know he
was a true smoke-fiend; 2-3 packs of unfiltered cigarettes a day.
Are we looking at bio-genetic factors? Immune system viability?
Psychological profiles?
   I'm thinking of that control group of Australians who, though
HIV infected, didn't progress to full-blown aids for a long time,
if at all. Also, certain ethnic or cultural groups who don't
develop heart disease, and other diseases, at a rate commensurate with scientific probabilities. (Diet has been an
established link-but it doesn't answer all the questions.)
   The bottom line is obvious: not that smokers could continue
with their habit once a specific bio-genetic marker was identified and could be arrested or controlled, but that former
smokers could possibly arrest the disease process before the
door slams behind them.
   Are scientific studies being conducted, groups of smokers
with differing mortality rates being compared?
   My interest is both scientific and personal--I'm an on again,
off again smoker--well aware of the slow, implacable, ruthless
fires gaining on me. I'm 59.