I was all determined to quit and talked to my doctor and got a prescription for Chantix and then had a bad reaction to it. Didn't matter in the end after all. As it turned out, my body was already over the addiction after 72 hours so the rest was up to me anyway. In a panicky moment after talking with nurse practitioner on the phone (this was not going according to plan in my mind) I realized if I substituted gum or patches or lozenges I would just be re-starting and prolonging the nic dependence and believe me I wanted that monkey off my back.
In retrospect I wish I'd known that sometimes NOT DOING ANYTHING including not smoking is all that's needed. Some impulse in me was always rushing in the fill the gap. I'm a month into my quit. Saw another doc for another reason and even though I feel worse than ever (thought I would feel good pretty much immediately) I won't go back and we crossed smoking off my problem list. Well Amen to that. Feels great that my docs feel as definitiive about my decision as I do.
