Comments on: pill for smokers to quit and lose weight? http://www.livelongagewell.com/2009/01/02/pill-for-smokers-to-quit-and-lose-weight/ How To Drop Dead Dancing In Your 90s.....by drDave Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:24:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: drDave http://www.livelongagewell.com/2009/01/02/pill-for-smokers-to-quit-and-lose-weight/comment-page-1/#comment-62 drDave Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:36:02 +0000 http://www.livelongagewell.com/?p=870#comment-62 No, don't smoke. Score one more for the cold turkey approach (and I was just thinking: how in the world did this expression "cold turkey" come about?) Thanks for your comment Sherry! glad you quit! No, don’t smoke. Score one more for the cold turkey approach (and I was just thinking: how in the world did this expression “cold turkey” come about?)

Thanks for your comment Sherry! glad you quit!

]]> By: Sherry http://www.livelongagewell.com/2009/01/02/pill-for-smokers-to-quit-and-lose-weight/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Sherry Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:58:12 +0000 http://www.livelongagewell.com/?p=870#comment-61 Great advice. Do you smoke? I quit cold turkey for 4 years now. I was a lot like Mark Twain though. Great advice.
Do you smoke? I quit cold turkey for 4 years now. I was a lot like Mark Twain though.

]]> By: drDave http://www.livelongagewell.com/2009/01/02/pill-for-smokers-to-quit-and-lose-weight/comment-page-1/#comment-60 drDave Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:48:35 +0000 http://www.livelongagewell.com/?p=870#comment-60 Thanks for the hints Colleen. It's great that there are many other methods people use without taking meds (though meds are fine and necessary for some). ...these successful non-medication methods (like a fake cigarette) or occasions (like strep throat) I suspect happen only to those who already really want, or know they really need to quit, and then use some little trick or an event as a means to help it happen. Many times in my practice I told people who were sick with say a sinus infection: "you have to stop smoking now to get over your infection, so use this bad time as an opportunity...it's the perfect time to quit... your body is telling you something." Would love to hear from any others on ways they, or someone they know, quit! Thanks for the hints Colleen.

It’s great that there are many other methods people use without taking meds (though meds are fine and necessary for some).
…these successful non-medication methods (like a fake cigarette) or occasions (like strep throat) I suspect happen only to those who already really want, or know they really need to quit, and then use some little trick or an event as a means to help it happen. Many times in my practice I told people who were sick with say a sinus infection: “you have to stop smoking now to get over your infection, so use this bad time as an opportunity…it’s the perfect time to quit… your body is telling you something.”

Would love to hear from any others on ways they, or someone they know, quit!

]]> By: colleen http://www.livelongagewell.com/2009/01/02/pill-for-smokers-to-quit-and-lose-weight/comment-page-1/#comment-59 colleen Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:08:21 +0000 http://www.livelongagewell.com/?p=870#comment-59 I got strep throat, couldn't smoke and used it as an opportunity to quit. My dad used a fake plastic cigarette to help him quit. He hung on to that thing for years. I got strep throat, couldn’t smoke and used it as an opportunity to quit. My dad used a fake plastic cigarette to help him quit. He hung on to that thing for years.

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