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Quit smoking aids.

I have been looking at things to help me quit smoking. Smoking aid sites have given me the first feeling of calm I have had all week from the panic of  just THINKING about quitting. I buy cheap smokes and my aid can't cost very much more than my habit. I will starve lol
I smoke 1 carton-1 1/2 cartons a week for 20-30 dollars Canadian.

I do not have many dollars more than 30 a week to help me quit, but to go cold turkey means I will go insane. I am not kidding. I am not even a specific type of smoker because I smoke for everything. I smoke because I put out a smoke. I have light nagging cravings almost constantly and they turn into craving screams real fast.

So I can afford, a box of the patch a week IF I penny pinch.
OR
A box of 42 inhaler cartridges every 1 1/2 weeks.
OR
There is a confusing web side called e-cig that sells cheap inhaler like products. But I am so confused. Model types, liquid, cartridges, inhalers, USB cords ?!?!, stuff you plug into the wall?!?!
OR
Maybe something I can get from my doctor in Canada that is equal or less then I can afford? Not even necessarily FOR smoking but works anyway. Like elephant tranquilizers :P
OR
Something else lol

If you have chosen one of these, did it work? Which in your professional opinion (:P) would work best. Or for my type of smoker? Guessing is ok, that's all I am doing too lol. I am so confused.
If you tried any of these products can you describe the difference in withdrawal, how it's better than cold turkey?
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I just went cold turkey and am going nuts..I have to quit to have surgury , so it wasn't my choice.I am not a happy camper..Any suggestions would be helpful..
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You're welcome.

Good luck!
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What? I didn't understand that. Anyway, I'm done here.
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326505 tn?1304169225
Sorry, but I don't know of any board like medhelp.
I would suggest keeping a journal and if you belong to more than just the smoking addiction board, then I'm sure you will get more responses.
It's difficult for me to converse with anything off topic as I'm uncomfortable with it, sorry.

I will always support your quit if and when you need it.
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Do you know of any other ACTIVE quit smoking communities? I am feeling mostly back to my old self, yep I am still cool :P.. Anyway, I filed to join Freedom like hours ago and they wont respond. so I sent this:

"What could I have done wrong? I am still just three days in, time isn't fast you know. And I waited and waited to get in here because I have been lonely and scared!!
You can track my whole quit the last three days in a different forum if you don't "believe" me.
Why did I even wait?  I went by the rules now I don't even get a prompt reply. I think you can hurt people more than help them.
... I'll go back to reading articles and be completely alone.  And you guys go back to editing peoples "Freedom" of speech in their forum posts. I may be  totally alone but at least I don't have a god complex. There should be a warning on this site "As you quit, don't get your hopes up about getting in here. Hell we wont even reply to you for hours and hours."


And that's what smoker me would have said heheheh. Yep I didn't turn nerdy like I feared. But guys, is there anywhere more active than this?
(Although I love how they haven't given me trouble for asking about quit aids then quitting cold turkey outload lol)
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Did anyone else hallucinate?  I still am. I have been crying,  and I looked in the mirror just now and I JUMPED lol. My nose and eyes were bright red and my skin was paper white!!
Egads! Then after half a second and a few blinks my eyes I adjusted.
And the first day my teeth looked green. Not so yellow that.. but like dark green, until I blinked a couple times.

I wonder why I never read of anyone else hallucinating but I get the fine pleasure? Good thing I did a lot of weird drugs lol. The one and only upside is knowing when you are hallucinating and not actually vampire-ish with green teeth OR losing your mind lol.

I am going nuts a bit, with my hypochondriac attacks and dark thoughts. But we KNEW I'd go nuts, I told us in the first post :P.. Somehow knowing it was coming made it possible to manage. I didn't kid myself.

I had a hypochondriac fit when I had a baby in my tube. I quit the opiates cold and cut down the smokes. I didn't know any better!  Even the opposite would have made me less sick and nuts!! Anyway, during that fit, the guy was with came across like the splitting image of that story lol. I know it's about a cigarette, but in my heart, that was that guy, every word of it..

Still not sure if it was true, it doesn't matter because for SURE he wasn't a great guy.
Like he burnt me with cigarettes "by accident" and didn't apologize. I ain't reliving it again, I just did with that smoke story, but the moral is, true or just perceived, I still RAN FROM HIM AS FAST AS MY STAINED PANTS WOULD CARRY ME lol (cold turkey opiate withdrawal is nasty)..
Smoking is the same. That's why I got the creeps. It is amplified from withdrawal but it is not inaccurate in the least.

Smoke free for 3 Days, 41 minutes and 35 seconds
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