Stop Smoking New Pill

When you tire of killing yourself, you are definitely going to want to explore all the options for stopping smoking that are available to you. It only makes sense that you try to quit smoking cold turkey first, but it’s not going to be long after before you realize that it is practically impossible to stay clean that way after you have been smoking for so long. Inevitably, you will find that the nicotine craving will win and you will be right back at the cigarettes within a matter of days.

I was there too, a while back; telling the whole world around me that I was trying to quit smoking. And I would stay clean for two days, and then I would be back worse than before; and then I would stay clean for another entire day, feeling really good about myself, but I would be back again even worse. I continued to decline that way for a very long time – I am talking about five years here – before I finally consented to the fact that I needed medical assistance to deal with the addiction. You are going to get there too, you know – that point where you realize that you have to get medical assistance to quit smoking. And when you do, you might just be able to break free from the bad smoking habit eventually.

For me, it was the stop smoking pills that eventually worked. I sincerely gave it my best shot; I went rogue with stop smoking literature and a host of other products that help you quit smoking; I even tried counseling and therapy; but smoking cessation for me was a phantom thought until my doctor introduced me to the pills. Don’t ask me; I’ll never know why nothing else helped. I suppose you could say ‘different strokes work for different folks,’ and you wouldn’t be too far off of the mark. All I can say is that once I started with the smoking cessation medications, I found my way back to stability.

I started out with Zyban, a long time antidepressant medication that has always been used in treating patients who had trouble dealing with the withdrawal symptoms from nicotine. Zyban is the brand name for the substance bupropin; it worked perfectly for two days before the doctor caught me trying to steal out of the stop smoking center to grab a cigarette. At that point, he had to introduce me to the rest of a wide range of antidepressant medications that worked by ‘regulating the levels of serotonin and other neurotransmitters’ in my brain, like I had a clue what he was talking about.

I didn’t. All that mattered to me was that he stopped that yawning craving for nicotine that had me in physical pain, headaches, and nausea for the whole day. This time around, I was given something called venlafaxine, or Effexor, as the mental health professional preferred to refer to it. He said it would tackle my craving. It did; and finally this time I was able to stay sober for a long time. That was three years ago, I have been clean from cigarettes and nicotine all of that time.

I will not presume to tell you it was a walk in the park because sometimes I still walk past a smoker and yearn for a drag, but when I think of the damage I had done to my lungs prior to quitting smoking, I remind myself that it isn’t worth it. The stop smoking group that I am a part of also helps in no little way, so I suppose I am in luck. But the best stop smoking advice I can give anyone is never to have started smoking at all in the first place.