According to my doc and the literature, one should plan to stop smoking a week after first taking the Zyban - i.e. my last day as a smoker should be this Friday. Which leads me to wonder, if Silly Mommy finds my withdrawal symptoms frightful now – goodness knows what she’ll think come Saturday. 
nothing drastic-I have gone that route-twice. a friend of mine has gone that route-twice. It will help you kick the urge but about 30 days into it you feel FINE no problem. Well get the additional 30 days worth because the I’m Fine feeling will go away about a week after your first “dosage”. I think it can work but don’t get too comfortable too soon is all-hang in there with the “help” a bit longer than you think you need it.
Also there is an herbal stop smoking program-do a search on the net for “smoke-away”-it is all herbal and comes with these drops that you put under your nose (smells like VICKS). It may not cut the urge as well as Zyban but WARNING if you do smoke while on the herbal pills. You will be knocked on your a$$ in a way you NEVER dreamed. I swear if you cheat you will not walk, drive, speak for about 10 minutes-and you won’t feel very well. When decision for cheat number two comes you may remember the sweet taste of a cig but you will never forget the ghastly feeling of that last cig.
Life is too short to dance with ugly men
reality here.
First off-the pity party support only lasts for oh, say, a week or two. Then the non-smokers in your life start treating you like a sniveling weakling every time you mention your cravings. Of course, they conveniently forget that you’ve been smoking for your entire adult life.
Murder of your immediate family members becomes terribly appealing. Nicotine managed to camouflage the fact they’re all unsympathetic jerks. Screaming epithets at them as loudly as possible only provides intermittent relief. Plus, your lawyer will probably let you smoke in his/her office while preparing your defense.
When not totally annoyed by everyone and everything, you?ll develop the baffling urge to sob loudly and often because the world is such a miserable place without cigarettes.
You’ll try to use anything as an excuse to start smoking again. As in:" I can’t possibly accept the fact that I missed my favorite episode of ________ without a cigarette. It’s just too unbearable."
You’ll find yourself sidling up to unsavory strangers on the streets just to bask in the second hand smoke.
You’ll also start to resent the fact that people are allowed to smoke publicly at all. It would be so much easier to quit if the government would just ban the damn things.
You’ll start having great dreams where you are smoking like a chimney. Waking up will be terribly depressing.
After months and months of total depravation, you’ll still want to have just one.
Oh, and the plus side?
You won’t hack like a consumptive in the mornings. You’ll be able to trot 10 laps without panting. You won’t stink like a bar at closing. You’ll save oodles of money that would have lined the pockets of evil cigarette company executives.
You’ll preserve your mouth from those nasty lines that habitual smokers get. And best of all-you’ll feel infinitely morally superior to all those people that you see lighting up.
8 1/2 months without a cigarette and holding.
ever really considered hypnosis? When my dad was in the Air Force ('fore I was born) you couldn’t join if you smoked (something like that.=) So the AF paid for hypnosis and my dad never lit up again.
-Amanda-
Watch out Rolex cause I’m not going to be standing at the line of the ‘off limits’ section!
If horses could pray, carrots would rain from the sky.
Horses are a girl’s best friend…
Anxious for info…
msj
