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Dr.Stoll,my wife has been a smoker for 10 years or so and she basically would like me to ask you what she can do to stop this bad habit that she says she detests but she is having a hard time letting go of,she has heard me tell her about your SR but we have still not received your book.Do you have any other advice,herbs,vitamins that would help her perhaps or SR the only way to go.

p.s. she is currently breast feeding,she never did smoke when she was pregnant with our 3 kids,but whenever she delivers them she starts smoking again.She only smokes between 4-6 cigarettes a day but she is chemically dependent on them!HELP!

GEDDY

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• Re: wife's smoking habit KNaHCO3 (Nugget) Walt Stoll 12:41:57 8/21/99 (0)
• accupuncture helps some people Pete R 15:17:23 8/20/99 (0)
• Re: wife's smoking habit Rob 23:40:58 8/19/99 (1)
  • Re: wife's smoking habit trish 00:25:53 8/20/99 (0)
• Re: Checkout the Smoking archives till Walt gets back. RocketHealer Jim++ 15:54:56 8/19/99 (0)

In Reply to: wife's smoking habit posted by Geddy on August 19, 1999 at 13:30:59:

We have not talked too much about quitting smoking here for a while, as I remember.

Till Walt drops back from lunch or whatever (he does have a life outside these discussions), you might want to take a look at the Quit Smoking archives, linked below.

Remember that this is NOT something that *you* can do for her (besides supplying some information and Loving support). It is HER decision and her actions that will be required.

• Quit Smoking Archives

In Reply to: wife's smoking habit posted by Geddy on August 19, 1999 at 13:30:59:

Geddy---I quite smoking 7 yars ago after a 20 year habit - 2 packs a day--the secret WILLPOWER--all in the mind..ya gotta want to do it....yes it is hard-----2 things made/helped me do it..I visited a local hospital & saw a lady with 1 of those artificial voice box things + I burned my little kids hand 1 day when walking with her (accident of course)--anyway--the moral is if ya don't wanna do it --it ain't gonna happen.....i am thinking of writing a book YOU DON"T NEED THE PATCH-----in my opinion, all these gums, patch things are rip-offs & big time money makers----SHE CAN DO IT....if the desire is there---yes mind over matter
best of luck--ROB

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• Re: wife's smoking habit trish 00:25:53 8/20/99 (0)

In Reply to: Re: wife's smoking habit posted by Rob on August 19, 1999 at 23:40:58:

Rob,

I also quit 7 years ago, cold turkey through a hospital program. It lasted around 3 months for me. So, I quit again, 6 years ago with the patch. I needed it. I got through it and never looked back. It gave me that little bit of edge that I needed to stick with the program. I recommend it to my still-smoking friends. If you DON'T really want to quit, it won't help you then, but if you do, it might just give you the extra willpower you need.

Just goes to show you how we are all so different.

SO.. as the Ghost of Buckwheat said on Saturday Night Live many years ago...."Don't bite da book"

;-)
trish

In Reply to: wife's smoking habit posted by Geddy on August 19, 1999 at 13:30:59:

I agree with Rob and trish. You have to want to quit and then work on it. I smoked for 15 years. Before we were married, the two of us went to an accupuncturist in Framingham MA, Dr. Pak, who claims to have invented the stop smoking points. He said while treating some patients for some other ailments, more than one of the smokers said to him, "Doc. You know what? I don't feel like smoking." He basically stumbled upon it.

The theory is that you do the two weeks of treatments, 3x/wk, and that is enough to get you over the nicotein (spl?) withdrawl. The first two weeks are really bad, even with acupuncture. It was still HARD to quit. But we did it. It helped us and Dr. Pak claims an 85% sucess rate. But like trish/rob/et al have said, we really WANTED to. Added point: I had also quit a number of times before, but this time was the easiest. Maybe is psycological, but I think that physilogically it changed me. Kind of hard to explain. The smell of smoke does not turn me on, where my wife still gets those pangs once in a while.

Funny thing with your wife, however. If she really quit for 9 months, she was WAY past the physical withdrawl. Its pretty strange to have to work so hard during those first few weeks to throw it away again in 9 months. Does she need some other councling? I don't know. For now, just tear up all cigarettes you find because she IS breast feeding.

Best of Luck.
Pete R

In Reply to: wife's smoking habit posted by Geddy on August 19, 1999 at 13:30:59:

Hi, Geddy.

Years of research have shown that double blind studies consistantly have a 75% success rate for people losing their desire for nicotine within 6 weeks of taking 1500 milligrams of sodium/potassium bicarbonate 3 times a day on an empty stomach.

Even though people had no idea why they were in the study, they still lost their desire for smoking.

The most convenient way to do this is to have the pharmacist put 750 milligrams of potassium bicarbonate in a capsule and 750 milligrams of sodium bicabonate in another capsule and take one of each 3 times a day. This stuff is CHEAP and the only real cost is the pharmacist's time filling the capsules.

Let us know how she does. In the meantime, listen to all the others who have chimed in here. They all are right!

Walt