smoking

[new01]

Any smokers on methadone if so how does it effect you? thankyou :)

[_natalie_]

Well, I can tell you that a new study w/ over 11,000 people has shown that 90% of methadone users smoke. This is really bad as it increases their smoking usually. The thing we need to keep in mind is medically, if you smoke 2 packs per day for 10 years and come in, we note this as being a pack smoker for 20 years. Do you smoke and how much?

[new01]

_natalie_ wrote:

Well, I can tell you that a new study w/ over 11,000 people has shown that 90% of methadone users smoke. This is really bad as it increases their smoking usually. The thing we need to keep in mind is medically, if you smoke 2 packs per day for 10 years and come in, we note this as being a pack smoker for 20 years. Do you smoke and how much?

Hi Natalie, yes i smoke about 20-30 a day, was 40 used to be until about 3months ago, but i am monitoring my BP right now as its a worry, 157/85 today. The bottom level was hovering over 102/170 , i stopped taking the BP meds just after 3 days of first starting them, as i just don't want to start age 40 ,i am trying exercise and other things but i still don't feel quite right, bit heady and achy almost Wd like symptoms but it's not because i have not tapered yet thanks T

[_natalie_]

Well, you know, some studies claim that it is more difficult to stop smoking than to stop using heroin. Hard to believe, right? Are you using any medication to help you with the cessation? Also, everytime you have a craving...

Drink water

Take deep breaths for a few minutes

Chew gum or candy

Do something else!! Learn new habits...if you smoked in the car start singing in the car of talking on the phone (just don't crash) something to keep you distracted. Remember every day that passes is a little easier. It is not uncommon to have headaches and the nicotine patch will help with that...its caused by the nic w/d. Drink lots of water, go for long walks and get plenty of sleep. Expect to be emotional though and try to stay calm Ok? You can do it, I promise. Some of my patients smoke over 2 packs a day for 30+ years and the day I tell them they have a lesion they stop smoking...just...like ...that. Amazing, I know. Then, on the other hand..I have the ones that keep smoking regardless of anything I say or do to them even resectioning the lung and the fact that they are on oxygen does not stop them! Please don't be like the latter. Take care

[new01]

Ha i like your ideas, i will try them. Smoking i know does not help my situation but there's addiction for you again right?

[rakaur]

Most addicts that abuse something smoke, I think. That's probably why the rate with methadone is so high. I bet it's a lot lower on methadone users that use it only for pain. I've never smoked.

I would take your BP meds. I take BP meds and I'm 23. Mine was high because of constant pain, supposedly.

[icry4U]

new01 wrote:

Ha i like your ideas, i will try them. Smoking i know does not help my situation but there's addiction for you again right?

Hi, new 1, not high though. everything ladies tellin' you about smokin' on that stuff, shore nuff, true. GOOD LUCK

[rakaur]

icry4U wrote:

<quoted text>Hi, new 1, not high though. everything ladies tellin' you about smokin' on that stuff, shore nuff, true. GOOD LUCK

What?

[Budda-23]

i smoke rollies with a filter about 16 a day is that better than smoking talor mades?? I KNOW IT TASTES<SMELLS AND FEELS BETTER!! i do things by the reward seystem if i work for 2 hrs or more on the computer i get a smoke if i clean do the hoovering or wash the dishes i get a smoke, so this way ive cut down from 60 super kings a day taylor mades the strongest to 16 rollies with a filter tip so i think im doing pretty good i dont even hardly crave them these days!!

Love & Light The budda..

[rakaur]

Budda-23 wrote:

i smoke rollies with a filter about 16 a day is that better than smoking talor mades?? I KNOW IT TASTES<SMELLS AND FEELS BETTER!! i do things by the reward seystem if i work for 2 hrs or more on the computer i get a smoke if i clean do the hoovering or wash the dishes i get a smoke, so this way ive cut down from 60 super kings a day taylor mades the strongest to 16 rollies with a filter tip so i think im doing pretty good i dont even hardly crave them these days!!
Love & Light The budda..

That's good to hear. I've never smoked and never really seen the allure. My girlfriend smoked 3-5 a day when she met me and quit within a month. My mother, step-father, and sister smoked most of my childhood, and I still got lucky enough to make it out without ever wanting to smoke.

[icry4U]

_natalie_ wrote:

Well, I can tell you that a new study w/ over 11,000 people has shown that 90% of methadone users smoke. This is really bad as it increases their smoking usually. The thing we need to keep in mind is medically, if you smoke 2 packs per day for 10 years and come in, we note this as being a pack smoker for 20 years. Do you smoke and how much?

hi natalie, i've made progress c Well'b, down to not even smoking in home, how do choose a quit date. heard this is another step has to be addressed.thanks 4 hearing.........

[Tony Rodriguez]

I'm not on methadone. I was from 1980-1983. I'm hooked on OC and am currently using 120-140 mg. orally. I'm smoking 1 1/2 packs a day, recently coming down from 2 packs. I quit for 4 years and started again during a stressful time 2 1/2 years ago. This 4 years was the only time I successfully abstained for any real length of time since 1971. I find it easier to break a narcotic habit in spite of the prolonged misery I must endure to do so. Whenever I kick dope it becomes my "project" and I do not experience drug cravings in spite of the fact that I am dopesick.
With cigarettes I can go maybe 2 weeks without. Then out of the blue I become totally obsessed with taking just a few puffs. One puff off a smoke inevitably leads to total relapse. And I always con myself that I can take a few puffs, then 1 cig and soon I am right back where I started. Narcotics medicate the bad feeling that I would normally experience from smoking. I think if I were clean and smoked 2 packs a day I would feel like crap.

[icry4U]

Tony Rodriguez wrote:

I'm not on methadone. I was from 1980-1983. I'm hooked on OC and am currently using 120-140 mg. orally. I'm smoking 1 1/2 packs a day, recently coming down from 2 packs. I quit for 4 years and started again during a stressful time 2 1/2 years ago. This 4 years was the only time I successfully abstained for any real length of time since 1971. I find it easier to break a narcotic habit in spite of the prolonged misery I must endure to do so. Whenever I kick dope it becomes my "project" and I do not experience drug cravings in spite of the fact that I am dopesick.
With cigarettes I can go maybe 2 weeks without. Then out of the blue I become totally obsessed with taking just a few puffs. One puff off a smoke inevitably leads to total relapse. And I always con myself that I can take a few puffs, then 1 cig and soon I am right back where I started. Narcotics medicate the bad feeling that I would normally experience from smoking. I think if I were clean and smoked 2 packs a day I would feel like crap.

can totally relate to this, someone out there finlly explained in their words what i was experiencing, and no i'm not crying 4 u, other personals........thanks 4 the other guy
s insight..........

[Mystic]

Its said that for all the people that smoke and TRY TO QUIT, eventually 50% of those TRYING TO QUIT, will successfully do so. Im at about a pack a day,(cowboy killers), LITTLE LESS.The exercise Im gettin makes me want to quit SO BADLY, and Ive actually cut down, from 2 packs a day. smoking this round since 2002.Its gonna be my time to quit soon. Im gonna try the cold turkey.My brain will love me, for topping and au natural. Id say dont give up and statistics say youll conQuer the evil tobacco companies propensity to take our money.Sooon, very soon.THEY ARE NASTY. My hair smells, my clothes, my breath, ew and YUCK! When I can see the forest and not just trees. Mystic

[Mystic]

Hey I cry4u, saw a post of yours and Im pullin for ya, and wish you the best at gettin what you want.
I feel a bit like a kindred spirit to you.Ive a twenty yeqar old son and a twenty six year marraige. Both tough, even now. Mystic

[nnayarm]

Ive smoked all my life, not a habit Im proud of, though. But the hardest to lose. Get that, I can quit smack but smoking, arr maybe not (only just heard myself, how odd). But then again Ive only tried once to quite, so as you can see Im quite resigned to the habit. However, it would seem that 'the smoker' has become the new 'shunned' in the community. Seems i cant quite get a break. Oh I smoke rolls about 10/15 a day (with filter).