Stopping Smoking - NHS help?

Trigger_Happy

Trigger_Happy

Trigger_Happy

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Since I split with my GF (who I thought I was going to marry) way way back in August, I started smoking due to the uncontrollable anxiety and stress of it all.

Now I want to give it up, and I am wondering if the NHS provides gum and nicotine patches, or do you have to purchase these?

thanks.
 
To answer your question, yes they do. I know several people who work in the Stop Smoking service and they give them out all the time.
 
_Andyh_ said:
With only been on them for four months I would just go cold turkey.
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You've either never been a smoker or have the willpower of a God ;)

After four months, he will have to kick the Addiction and the habbit. As someone who has actually done this twice (Christmas relapse several years ago :() this is no simple process.

NHS are great and help loads, I had patches and they really are superb.

Good Luck!!


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Realistically...

How much damage could I have done to myself in 4/5 months of between 10-20 a day?

I drink lots of green tea to ward off throat cancer.

I hate myself for smoking.
 
The lungs repair themselves exceptionally well with sustained abstinance from smoking.

Realistically, over 5 months you won't have done much damage at all.

You can call the NHS Stop Smoking support line, and I believe they'll mail you out a free starter pack containing patches etc. Good luck!
 
Trigger_Happy said:
I drink lots of green tea to ward off throat cancer.
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/facepalm

After only 5 months I doubt you have done much damage, but then again it only takes some bad luck.

I've always understood after quitting smoking if you live 10 years disease free then your risk of related illness drops to near that of someone who never smoked.

Disclaimer: The above might be a load of crap...
 
Arghh so if I drink green tea I can continue smoking? As lovely as green tea is its mystical properties are astounding :D

Seriously though 4 months isnt anything mate you probably are addicted but youll find cold turkey a hell of a lot easier than the idiots like me who have smoked for 5+ years. I'm on day 6 and it really is painful.

NHS do some good stuff but the most effective things seem to be will power or there are some drugs to help. Unless youre serious then dont waste valuable smoking time :D

Why are you quitting dont you support the economy :p
 
Becuase if I go totally cold turkey then its likely to affect my guts.

Last time I quit smoking when at Uni many years ago I ended up with Ulcerative Colitis and a mega surgery to remove my colon and give me a J-Pouch.
 
Trigger_Happy said:
Becuase if I go totally cold turkey then its likely to affect my guts.

Last time I quit smoking when at Uni many years ago I ended up with Ulcerative Colitis and a mega surgery to remove my colon and give me a J-Pouch.
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PapaLazaru said:
What?

So a doctor told you that you got Colitis from giving up smoking?

Just man up and stop. Green tea? You trolling.
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I detect trolling.

Trigger, weren't you the poster here a few years ago who described himself as "born and bred from 4chan?"
 
I used patches last time and quit for 9 months.

Willpower is pretty much irrelevent when you're overcoming a physical addiction, your brain chemistry is altered by the defecit of nicotine so while one minute you're fine, the next your brain will do anything to rationalise reasons why you should continue to smoke. That and you know you'll feel really unwell if you smoke on the patch is why I've always found patches do work to some extent, every time I used patches I've quit for the best part of a year before starting again.

My issue lies in that I enjoy smoking way too much, I only ever quit for health reasons and not because I don't want to smoke any more, always loved smoking and probably always will, still, maybe next time.
 
PapaLazaru said:
What?

So a doctor told you that you got Colitis from giving up smoking?

Just man up and stop. Green tea? You trolling.
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wow are you really that stupid?

Quitting smoking is a well known and medically documented trigger for Ulcerative Colitis.

Nicotine makes the guts produce more mucus than normal, and when you go cold turkey inflammation and ulceration can occur.

Bet you feel a bit silly now.
 
PapaLazaru said:
What?

So a doctor told you that you got Colitis from giving up smoking?

Just man up and stop. Green tea? You trolling.
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There is a link to giving up smoking and developing U/C however only so far as the arsenic and other cacogenics in the smoke keep your underlying UC in remission, then when you give up it pops up.

If you've had your colon removed, gone through having a pouch then a J pouch, stopping should be a doddle.

Amazing how people are prepared to pay £10 a day for cigarettes but want to get the patches off the NHS
 
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