The best thing I used was the "Nicotrol Inhaler". It's a prescription. It can be used in combination with the quit smoking pills i.e. Zyban, Chantix. But I had nouse for them.


TheNicotol Inhaleris a little white plastic tube that is almost the same size as a cigarette. There are nicotine cartriges that you place inside the tube. You "puff" on them, inhaling a dose of nicotine. You can use up to 16 a day,for 20 minutes each, and for a maximum of 6 months. They are best for those with a "hand-to-mouth" fixation.


I smoked 1-2 packs of cigarettes a day for14 years. I never had a need for more than 10 cartriges a day. I knowit's natural tothink you would just become addicted to them, transferring one addiction to another. But it is the habit that begins to fade after using these for a while. They simply begin to not be so much "fun". You simply get bored with them. Then you start forgetting to put new cartriges in and you are "puffing" on an empty tube. I only used them for 6 weeks before I just stopped using them completely. I have been nicotine free for 8 months.


I have had asthma since I was 9 years old. I no longer have a need for my Combivent (asthma)Inhaler. I have more energy than ever. I don't have to take "smoke breaks" or any breaks for that matter. My sense of smell and taste is extraordinary. The benefits are countless. Not to mentionno more cigarettesmell...yuk! Guy's, I find in general, don't like women who smoke, even if they themselves smoke. Hypocritical, I know, but it's a fact. Now I don't have to worry about that.


Also, I don't mind being around other smokers. It doesn't make me crave them in the least. I sometimes enjoy the smell of a freshly lit cigarette (kinda gross I know, but I suppose it's the smell of thetobacco like in pipes and cigars which have always smelled sort of good to me). But the smell that stays on their clothes and hands and in their homes from ash trays and such is actually pretty disgsting, gut wrnchingly awful, to me now.


But still, I don't have an inkling of a craving for a smoke. Once in a while the thought enters my mind. But Iam able to overcome it by thinking about how awful it was to smoke, all the benefits I will lose and that there is nothing to be gained by smoking another cigarette. If you ever really think about it, there is nothing good or fun or enjoyable at all about smoking a cigarette. They taste and smell disgusting. But I am confident that with time, even the thought will no longer enter my mind.


Oh, and my skin is even softer.My right hand is the one I used to smoke with. The wrinkles were always more prominent on the right hand because of smoke. Now they are soft and smooth. Also the skin on my face is smoother and softer. It is verynoticeable.


P.S. a doctor told me that if I continued to smoke that I would die. But before I die I would have to carry an oxygen tank around with me wherver I went; that is if I ever had the enegy to go anywhere. He said that I was in the first stages of getting emphysema. I couldn't breathe and I thought it was just my asthma. But now, like I said, I can hardly tell I have asthma. That doctor saved my life by telling me that. I am only 30 years old.


PLEASE, ANYONE OUT THERE STILL SMOKING, DO YOURSELF A FAVOR, SAVE YOUR LIFE,YOU WILL DIEIF YOU DON'T QUIT SMOKING!!!