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General : The Ripple Effect of Quitting View All Messages
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From: Joel  (Original Message)Sent: 12/8/2005 11:22 AM

Hi Joel

Firstly many thanks for you, your site, colleagues and site posters.

I am a ‘lurker�?apparently and it quite suits me researching, reading, digesting all the information to help with my quit.

I thought you may be interested in my story.

My wife was booked for a bronchoschopy quite recently, and subsequently a spirograph test. We were both long term smokers 20 years plus. I decided to take the lead and use anything I could to firstly make me quit, and subsequently helping my wife. I quit with the great support and aid of WhyQuit.com and printed off a couple of really good pieces, such as smoking’s my friend, etc to help my wife. She really thought she needed NRT patches to quit and went to the local doctors smoking cessation advisor. I tried to persuade her to go cold turkey, as I had done, but realising any quit is better than no quit I decided to be as helpful as possible in assisting with the programme advised by local doctors.

Instead of having taking her a cup of tea in the morning it was a cup of tea and an NRT patch, (I was always very careful not to touch as I had been nicotine free for 7 days!!), this went on for 7 days with my wife becoming increasingly irritated by itching and scratching. I thought it might be an adverse reaction to neat nicotine and after a lot of persuading she decided to ditch the NRT and go ‘cold turkey�? This was last Thursday night at 22.00, I advised her all over the weekend all the great tips I had learned from the site, every minute is doable, NTAP, etc. It was hard but she made it!! Today, Wednesday, she had a follow up with the doctors smoking cessation advisor, after informing her that she had ditched the patches on Friday because of the irritation the advisor said ‘would you like a nicotine inhaler, or try different patches……………�?.

Needless to say she laughed and walked out.

Both my wife and I and three kids and son in law cannot thank you enough for this site. I gave up 9th November, my wife 18th, my eldest daughter (23) & son in law (27), 20th November. Were all doing well as addicts remembering NTAP!!!!!! I have also advised the Landlord and Landlady of our local pub + numerous friends.

Kindest regards

With best wishes

Mark
From the UK



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     re: The Ripple Effect of Quitting   Joel  12/8/2005 11:31 AM
     re: The Ripple Effect of Quitting   MSN NicknameStarshinegrl-Gold  12/8/2005 12:07 PM
     re: The Ripple Effect of Quitting   John  12/8/2005 12:15 PM