Stop Smoking Medications: Do Stop Smoking Medications Have Drawbacks?
Author: SebMark
If you have tried and failed to stop smoking several times, you may be thinking about turning to stop smoking medication to help you overcome your habit. It seems like quite a rational step to take if the other methods have failed you, but there are many things to understand if you want to take the medicinal approach. The three main stop smoking medications in use today and discussed below are nicotine replacement therapies (NRT), Zyban and Chantix.
But are these three stop smoking medications useful?
The answer is no. Let us check the first stop smoking medication which is nicotine replacement therapies. One of the early stop smoking medications launched back in the 1970s was the nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) approach to stop smoking using gum. This has been followed with lozenges, tablets, nasal sprays, inhalers and patches. Whilst not strictly a medicine, the concept was simple; cigarette smoke is bad, nicotine is not bad for you in the doses available, therefore, and deliver nicotine in a non-smoke form and smokers can stop smoking!
This approach is the substitute of cigarette in place of other products that also deliver nicotine. The flaw in this approach is that you smoke to get nicotine. If you get nicotine from another source, you are maintaining your addiction to it and therefore, still liable to crave it. If you still crave nicotine, you are at risk of smoking in order to get it. Nicotine replacement therapy solves the symptoms of nicotine addiction by providing nicotine; it does not solve the cause of the problem itself, which is nicotine addiction!
Now coming to the second stop smoking medication Another of the stop smoking medicines available is Zyban, which is also known as wellbutrin. People with high blood pressure (common among smokers) are one group that should consider very carefully. So it is the biggest flaw in this stop smoking medication.
Finally, the latest (third) introduction in the medical profession's armoury of stop smoking medication is Chantix (sold as Champix in Europe). Actually people complaint about the side effects of this medicine. Many have to abandon treatment due to the severity of the side effects.
So what is the way to over come addiction to smoking or is there a flaw less stop smoking medication available? Fortunately Yes there is. You should go for any herbal and homeopathic based liquid oral spray. It is usually used 3 times a day. This type of medication is safe, nature and has no side effect and drug interactions being homeopathic.
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What’s the latest and greatest drug out to help me stop smoking?
I’ve smoked for 30 years, stopped once for 3 months, gained 35 lbs. I was on Welbutrin to help with the craving, obviously that didn’t work real well for me. Is there medication out there with great reviews to help me stop smoking without gainging weight? I don’t know if it matters but I’m a female.
Celery.
Are you or have you ever been on medication to relieve anxiety?
My doctor prescribed me some medicine to help me quit smoking. Upon review of the drug (Bupropion,) I discovered that the reason I was feeling better is because this drug targets stress and is quite successful as a stop smoking drug because of it’s anti-anxiety properties.
I always knew I was stressed, but I had no idea how much difference medication meant, especially medication that didn’t affect a sober state of mind as does this Bupropion drug. I like it a lot.
Are there stronger medications that don’t cause you to get a buzz like Valium that will make me even less stressed out? I ask because all this crap with Bush, Iraq, Iran and everything else the BushCo Federal Govt wants to do to the USA Constitution has stressed me out beyond my limits. And this anti-smoking drug with it’s anti-anxiety properties has made me a heck of a lot less upset. I want something stronger so I can be in ignorant bliss like most everyone else. GIVE ME DRUGS. They seem to work.
You forgot to add…
“And that, is the reason the rest of us can’t cope with people anymore. Because everyone else is doped up and taking their bullsh*it on everyone else from behind the delusions of their medication.”
Thanks Prozac Nation!
Making it hard on the rest of us, one pill at a time since 1990…
Where can I buy hydrocodone online with a site that offers doctor’s prescription/consultation?
I had 4 operations, and I was taking hydrocodone as needed from my old family doctor with no side effects. I moved to another state and nobody wants to prescribe it for me because they’re afraid of being investigated (if they had this pain they’d prescribe it for themselves in 5 secs). There are pharmacies online that work with online physicians who review your medical records and issue a prescription AND medication. I did this (from WA) for a total cost of $300. Anyone know of a site that might be cheaper but offers same service? I don’t have an addictive personality. I bet somebody I could stop using sugar for 2 years, and I won. 15 years ago I bet somebody I could quite smoking in 5 minutes and I won that bet too. I tried Ultram but it doesn’t work as well. Lyrica & cymbalta made me sick. (I’m talking carpal tunnel surgery, ulnar nerve surgery, forearm tumor removal surgery, and hernia surgery all in one day kind of pain.) P.S. before this I never was sick in my life.
Why not just use the same service you’ve been using? It’s not going to get any cheaper when dealing with a Records Only Pharmacy. That’s actually a pretty good price, from what I understand. These types of services cost a lot because you’re kind of making an end run around the system. If you don’t want to pay that much, get a referral to pain management. If you have your records for the ROP, then you can take them to a pain doctor and they will review them and prescribe accordingly.
Tell me about bankruptcy laws? What changed with the changes?
I You will need to read all this to see what was done to me. I am female. Christian, fundamentalist. a
ppear very white. Hetero. It is relative. I have it, but it is relative to my problems. I have health problems,
but was able to work. I have always had to work
at being healthy. Have to keep my weight down.
I am talking of me. I do not want to be told how others are, I am me. I need money for diet, health care.
I have no no health care. I am not going to proof read
or edit this.
I am sick to death of someone dragging up lies
on me and slandering me with things which were
grossly distorted, exaggerated, calling me things which are lies, and harassing and degrading me over things which never happened in the first place. I have
been battered four times by strangers due to people
lying on me.
Going to the state for help, ends up in my being
trashed. Always.I have suffered grave injuries at the hands of states discrimination and abuse.
I must take medication at times due to the abuse of authorities and discrimination. I have no mental illness that is inborn. I have symp;toms of ptst, due to abuse not by my parents.
never filed bankruptcy before, never contemplated it ever seriously. Know nothing, knew nothing.
I really did save 10,000 cash when I was younger,
no dependents, and pay down on my auto and house, bought new furniture. Had hardly any bills and perfect credit. I then made some more bills, manageable because I had a good paying job. After spending a lot of my savings on the dps and finding I was ripped off, I obtained more credit No problem. I am making good money in a career highly employable. Always have a job. I did then get some cash a couple of times from a creditor. I am working full time. I asked creditors to STOP sending me blank checks, and offers for more credit , I asked this more than once. I run into serious
job discrimination. Harassment, slander. I left my long term employer after her asking me to sign lies, saying I did things I did not do. Rec. a major attitude adjustment. Then I lose my three wks vac, all raises,
my two weeks sick leave. Cannot get work any where locally. I went to the city to work, told I had the job, told I was doing great, old emp. appears, they even give me a ticket, singled out. My auto crashed into, have to
rent an auto. Harassed greatly because I go get my grandson, and we have some fun together while I am off. I used credit. I am getting a great new job which
pays twice as much as the old.Go work there, in a rented car. Do great. Great. Then I am told because I do not want to work with someone, I can not transfer to another dept. I can go work in their ltc. I refuse. Take another job. Blah. I ended up deciding to move out of state, sell my home. They ran my ad in paper so that nothing sold. Had to give most of my things away, even furn. I bought new. Paid cash for my furniture, not
credit cards. My dps were cash, not credit cards.
I have been living on credit. Barely made anything on my home. I called here, talked to nurses on the floor
and they said come on. No problem. More than one.
I have disposed of my pets, all but what I could mail,
and bring in the car. Happy to relocate be near my only dtr. Happy to get the rest of my degree, workin a hospital. Get here. I am losing wt. Gained some due
to stress. Have quit smoking. Have problem sleeping off and on. I am happy. Going to gym, looking for church, actually started going to one Different denomination. Cannot go to the old one. Had my name removed from their church. Want a change.
On unemployment. Kept my bills pd up for four months.
Cannot get work any where. I took a review online
before moving here, although it was not required. I took CEUs. I went to seminars. I studied. I was up todate any way. The job I had before was not assisted living. We handled about 30 pts one nurse, doing dressings, IVs, pics, etc., I did that for years, emergencies. The whole bit but for gunshot wounds, or fresh car wrecks. I cannot get work in nursing any where. Nothing, not in clinics nothing. Even worse,
I cannot get any other kind of work. I take ACLS
Pals, at great expense. I take testing for college hours
My brain is working. The ACLS , Pals was like a good
BLS except I got to do the airway thingie, put one in.
We covered more meds. Open book. I did not use
my book for all that. This was expensive, credit.
I had to buy some tires. blah blah. Stringing me along, just around the corner, job. Good pay. No work.
Finally, my money is gone. Credit gone. Creditors
know. they know I am not working. Do not terminate
my credit. I cannot get work. I cannot pay my bills.
I went to consumer credit.
Said a lost cause. My health starts slipping. I did not start smoking. I cannot carry weight. It kills me, and I do not get crabby when I eat right. I began going to gym here. Paid a membership. Harassed at the gym, told to get lost more or less. I was not
That cut off the important part. I was denied work of any kind except two jobs which just about killed me phhysically.l My bills have increased. Emergency surgery. Rupturing appendix. I am screwed. Bank ruptcy recommended.
recommended chapter 7. Taken to court to pay abill of ten thou cash. I am ordered to pay. How? I am not able to work. I am sick, in pain now. No health care. Will not take payments. Paying over four hundred out of my very small survivors social sefurity. Attorney says she will fine bank ruptcy gets all info.Says I insulted her, returns my money and this other vicious lawyers et onto me. Sick for a week after going to court. threatening and intimidating me. Stalking, Tell me to suck off. Go whore it out.
Spastic colon worse Now the raynauds is going crazy. I am not leaving. No where to go. burned bridges. have gr kids here. now
addicted to them. They ae killing me for money. No help anywhere. What is the deal bkrptyc.Not gay or bi. No need to tell me I’m screwed
This has a lot of racial overtones. They will not let me know my genetic heritage. I need to know for my healths sake. I look extremly white. I am not as white as I look. Threatened over this. I have never ever mentioned anything about any sor tof thing to get preference in employment. Preference, Ha. I have always duked it out with evryone else, slugged it out on my own.v
Debt settlement is no solution. I have rent. which a hunk. My electricity bill just doubled last month. Rent and electric is a hunk of my check, medical is a big hunk, My rent just went up, and will go up again. Any increase in income increases rent. I am paying over a third, sometimes half of my income for medical. I still do not get to see a doctor every time I need to do so. i just received myh SS check. I have paid my bills and I have $173 left for car gas,
for groceries for a month. I have not bought gro. I bought some extra stuff
for something unexpected that came up.
that 173 is for Christmas dinner, groceries, evrything, soap, etc.
This is merciless, cruel, sick. It really is an attempt to make things so hard on me I will die, kill myself, or leave. I am not suicidal. I have no where to go.
What is left. Bankruptcy is the only solution. They will not let me. There is something more involved here.
I notice that Raul has no return email. What an unusual name, same as the
merciless attorney.
I do not owe 100.000. I may owe now about 50,000 /60. I had about thirty or fourty thou on there for the emergency surgery. They wrote some off. I have paid some off.Much of that is finance
charges. Much of it was medical, much of it was trying to get work, and expense of education trying to get work. As I said my creditors kept extneding credit even when they knew I was off. I had such good work credentials. Had
I not htought i had work security I would never have made any bills.
I am not a sneak or theif. My kids have absolutely no part in my problems. I am the victim here, not the perp. I have absolutely no reason, none, to be defensive or afraid because I am totally absolutely not guilty of any scheming or plotting or collusions to do anything dishonest. Nothing. I came on top of the world thinking this place was not prejudiced. Ha. I came thinking I would be treated as a human being. New life.
Chance to have some happiness which I have not had since 1985. Delusion.
Lied to. Victimized all over again. No.
I do not like being a victim, but there is no word for it. I do not like some one
in authority here trying to make it look like I have had “special” privileges.That is a blatant blatant horrible lie. Special abuse and discrimination is what I have had. This place is vilely prejudiced.
The means test said It was a lost cause. i had so much debt. I cannot get an attorney. I am told the one I allegedly offended is the only one. I was 58 when I came here. They way I have been done means work is now out. I will be fortunate indeed if I do not die from this.
I wouldhave had my BSN by age 60, and then my MSN by 62. Of course all this is out. It was all planned, my educaiton, and I could have done it.
I am a hard worker, and I was dedicated to what I was going to do.
I would have then been able to work less hours making more money and work into my seventies and never have to go through this degrading loss of dignity, resources, loss of education. It is as if I stepped into a hornets nest of hatred poverty and personal grudges against me. It is not fair. It has been devastating. Now there is nothoing ahead but stark years of poverty. I am not close to my relatives, there is no going back or forward. Pure viciousness. Nothing mor eor less.
Looks so unprejudiced to visit
People in health care work longer than others. Lillian Carter was waorking in the peace corp into her seventies.
I was not going into the peace corp.
I also was not going to be a missionary.
Everything wa splanned. feasable, doable. I did not count on someones hating me enough to sabotage everyting. Not my kids doing it. I do not want to hurt them.Thought i was a person in my own right.
My children did not do this to me.
They are innocent of this. They are also
not responsible for me. This was preplanned sadistic maliciousness, and I am not paranoid. Tnhey did not mean for me to survive this. This discrimination, hate crimes against me, has gone on for a long long time.
I can spell, type, use good grammar, punctuation, etc. Why bother. What is the use. It is all pointless. Don’t holler
depression, etc.
I’ve not filed a lawsuit anywhereNever had an attorney to represent me but for divorce. Only divorce. Never consulted an attorney b4 here re bankruptcy. I never received anything for consulting an attorney but divorce. Screwed there. I never sued for a job, license, nothing. Never committed crime that would put me in jail a day.unless they grossly lied. Never used illegal drugs in my life.
Never used drugs for wt control, ever.
Never had a major mental illness.
Never lost my license, ever. This is the
God’s truth. Did not cheat on my husband. He said he had a girlfriend. i did divorce him, I did not have a boyfriend. i wanted to get on with life asap. remarry. Could not. Slandered, defamed.
Their m.o. is if I say I am slandered, life is over. If I go outside, then I was not slandered. Must never set foot outside the house, not embarrassed enough. Same goes for disability,I’m ill, in pain, hurting.I am not to go outside,just buy gro. I am a total outcast, exiled, unwanted
I’ve not filed a lawsuit anywhereNever had an attorney to represent me but for divorce. Only divorce. Never consulted an attorney b4 here re bankruptcy. I never received anything for consulting an attorney but divorce. Screwed there. I never sued for a job, license, nothing. Never committed crime that would put me in jail a day.unless they grossly lied. Never used illegal drugs in my life.
Never used drugs for wt control, ever.
Never had a major mental illness.
Never lost my license, ever. This is the
God’s truth. Did not cheat on my husband. He said he had a girlfriend. i did divorce him, I did not have a boyfriend. i wanted to get on with life asap. remarry. Could not. Slandered, defamed.
Their m.o. is if I say I am slandered, life is over. If I go outside, then I was not slandered. Must never set foot outside the house, not embarrassed enough. Same goes for disability,I’m ill, in pain, hurting.I am not to go outside,just buy gro. I am a total outcast, exiled, unwanted
I have no intentions of working in any live in situations nor working for anything that requires I travel. I cannot do it.
I am not able to work right now, and I cannot get well due to the way I am treated. I hate this stinking apt. But it beats the street, it beats the shacks out on the hjighway. I have no reason, whatsoever, and never did to be guilt riddenl I reject all of that rot.
I have no intentions of working in any live in situations nor working for anything that requires I travel. I cannot do it.
I am not able to work right now, and I cannot get well due to the way I am treated. I hate this stinking apt. But it beats the street, it beats the shacks out on the hjighway. I have no reason, whatsoever, and never did to be guilt riddenl I reject all of that rot.
You have given a lot of information and it is a little difficult to tell exactly what your question is, but I will try.
When the bankruptcy law changed in 2005 some new requirements were introduced, most of which sound like they do not apply to your situation.
Probably the one that most people have heard about is the “Means Test.” Although it is FAR more complicated than this in all its details, basically what it requires is that IF your income is higher than the average income for your household size in your state, then your attorney must perform some additional computations to determine whether you are making enough money to be required to repay at least some of what you owe over the next 5 years. If you are unable to work, this would not apply.
I’m sorry that you and the attorney you consulted came to a misunderstanding. That is truly unfortunate. I would urge you to make an appointment with a different bankruptcy attorney (most offer one free or very low cost appointment) to review your financial circumstances and advise you on whether bankruptcy is an option for you, and whether there are other possible options you might want to consider.
Consider your meeting with the new attorney to be an interview. You are interviewing the attorney to see whether you feel you will be able to work well with him or her. If the first attorney you consult does not seem to you like a person you can work with comfortably and trust to represent your interests, then interview a 2nd and a 3rd attorney. Keep trying until you find one you feel good about.
Should Americans keep demanding Filet Mignon Care for Ground Chuck Prices?
Why should high tech medical care be inexpensive? Babies in state of the art NICUs; artificial hearts with a pocket sized portable pump; organ transplants; vaccines that help prevent cervical cancer; gene profiling to tailor cancer treatments to the individual patient; a once a day pill to treat HIV (Atripia); medication that actually helps people stop smoking…
Should we just scrap the new technology? This stuff wasn’t available the way it is now 10 years ago, but it’s being used in vast quantities. Or should we understand that if we want these advances we need to pay for them?
http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/824698/experts_review_top_medical_advances/index.html
Happens all the time.
You have parents, who want the day care their children go to, to only hire people with graduate degrees in child services, etc
But then want to pay them minimum wage to watch their children.
Then they demand that each child care provider, only be responsible for 2 or 3 children.
Then whine that they cannot just pay $80 a week.