Cigarette Smokers Please Respond

[billstrong1969]

I know cigarette smoking is bad, but I've been a smoker for years and am 38 yrs old.  I know also that cigarettes are bad when you have HCV.  How many of you guys are smokers and has anyone quit?  Has anyone just continued smoking anyways and still had good results?  How does being on TX and smoking make you feel?  Thanks everyone........

billstrong1969

[Lonestar823]

Ummmm.....Tobacco.  I'd walk out of my way just to linger outside a good tobacco shop for the scent.  I've always been mesmerized by the tobacco rituals.  Cigarettes... Camel Lights, jeez, they were the best part of the show. ; ]  I still miss them.  Just reading these posts make me want to drive uptown and buy a pack, just to hold 'em again. ; ]  Wonder if I've got any stale ones in a pocket somewhere?

[PrettyPoisonNoMore]

I smoked for a LONG time, and continued to thru treatment.  NP said not to quit while on treatment, it was tough enough without quitting smoking.  Two weeks past treatment I had to have an emergency appendectomy and I quit smoking then with the help of a morphine drip!  I didn't start back.  Here we are almost 1 year to the day that I quit.  I am SVR, but I don't think it had anything at all with quitting smoking after treating!

[GrandmaBRZ]

I have been looking for a post that addressed this issue.  I was too sheepish to bring it up because i was sure I was the only smoker left in the world!  

I was 1-2 packs a day before treatment. Been on treatment for 10-11 weeks & I am now down to 7-10 cigs a day. I do keep a record of how much I smoke each day which gives me an incentive to cut down more.  

I no longer relight a cig, even if I have only taken one or two drags. Right down the toilet with those cigs. The treatment has made it much easier for me to cut down.  I have been smoking since i was 13, quit 2x for 3 years & 7 years. This time cold turkey has not worked but maybe continually cutting down will lead to Zero.

Good luck in whatever way you chose to go.  Jenn

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[hondapatches]

I have smoked for about 35 years. I have cut way down since starting tx. I can't smoke much anyway being a school teacher. I know it is hard on your live, but cold turkey I cannot do. At least not right now.
hondapatches

[pigeonca]

I smoked about three-quarters of a pack a day for thirty-five years.  Quit using Zyban, which is the same thing as Wellbutrin.  Nothing else worked for me.  Every now and again, I'll cheat and smoke one cigarette - maybe once or twice a month.  As long as I take the Wellbutrin, I can do this.  I know I shouldn't have any at all, but being a city girl, I figure car exhaust and other pollution are equally bad, so what the hey...

[JodyLynn]

I smoked from age 11 to age 41, im now 49. I used the nic gum and it worked, but im still chewing it lol 8 years later, but at least i dont smoke anymore ha.