Quitting Smoking can be Harmful to your Health? The US FDA gives a New Warning »
Posted By WikiMap 4 months, 3 weeks ago in NewsThe Surgeon General of the United States makes many warnings about cigarette smoking, including the risk of cancer and heart disease. But today, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warns about the potential for deadly side effects of nicotine suppression drugs.
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quicksilver06024 months, 3 weeks ago
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"Since about 43 million Americans smoke, the deaths associated with cancer and smoking will far outweigh any side effects from nicotine prevention drugs."
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One of the problems with this class of drugs is that many health care providers prescribe them without considering how powerful they are. Zyban is the same medication as Wellbutrin, a very powerful anti-depressant that is recommended ONLY when all other therapy fails...so if you have doctors doling this stuff out with little discretion, there are bound to be mishaps.
As with all medication - particularly those that literally alter the brains chemistry - it's vital to closely monitor an individual's reaction from start to finish...and unfortunately, most health care providers don't have the kind of time needed to do so and many patients don't have the time or money to follow-up with their doctors when hampered with side effects.
That said, smoking is about the most toxic of all habits, both for the smoker, those around them and the environment. If these meds are prescribed and taken with care, they can be very effective.-
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Bacalao4 months, 3 weeks ago
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as you said
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"it's vital to closely monitor an individual's reaction from start to finish...and unfortunately, most health care providers don't have the kind of time needed to do so"
I agree, luckily no one died while i was on chantix. It seem to have an unusual effect on me. I wasn't suicidal, I became quite the opposite. As a bartender I occasionally have drunks that want to get rowdy. I can talk them out of it most of the time. while on chantix I almost did some real damage to a few who tried me. I prefer the usual talk down. still smoking unfortunately. -
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grievingstill4 months, 3 weeks ago
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Quicksilver is right. Unfortunately doctors do not monitor the possible deadly reactions of Welbutrin and Zyban. My daughter was murdered by her new husband who was on this drug to stop smoking. She said he was acting crazy and had had no followup with the prescribing doctor for welbutrin. He became out of control with jealousy because she came to visit me and shot and killed her and himself right in front of me. I do think he was not of sound mind to begin with and the welbutrin simply pushed him over the edge.
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splitrch4 months, 3 weeks ago
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I heard that Zyban originally was developed as an anti- depressant. During clinical trials some people who smoked stopped smoking. If I'm not mistaken the same drug has another name for use when treating depression.
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I quit cold turkey 9 years ago. It wasn't easy but it worked. -
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calitennflo4 months, 3 weeks ago
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We humans are like everything else here in the abode which supports life...exampled is the fact we eat and grow at a rate...as everything does...it tapers to the divine principle phi and pi....formulas that the Egyptians and all knew that long ago...are still present today. I stopped smoking by gradually stopping...adding more time between smokes...until I stopped. They gave me patches that I never needed.
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1. a four-sided stone pillar that tapers to a pyramid at the top
2. Printing same as dagger (sense 2) [Greek obeliskos a little spit]
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lvrofwolves4 months, 3 weeks ago
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I don't think one way works with everyone, thankfully there are many methods today that can help. I can't remember what they say the average number of times it usually takes a person to finally quit, I think it was 8.
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First time for me and it's been 10 weeks as of yesterday, I'm pretty sure I've gotten over the real bad times, I wouldn't want to go through it again. I used the patch.
Now if I'm on my death bed??? I'm smokin!!!!!! otherwise I'm fairly certain I won't.
I can see stress in quitting being very hard on people tho...
you've got to remember all that stress, crap etc... doesn't last forever tho, if it did, nobody would be an ex smoker.-
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fiftynine4 months, 3 weeks ago
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"it's been 10 weeks as of yesterday,"...Ten weeks can turn into ten months very easily if you don't pick up a cigarette..I had a weird back door advantage...lol..I quit drinking 23 years ago so i was kind of prepared for some of the mental crap i knew iwould have to go through to beat an addiction...and i was right,it was the same mental games that i played with myself then..You just have to want to be smoke free more than you want to smoke...Good luck.....Big tobacco and the government are against you in this...BT wants your money at any cost and it is beneficial for the government that you die before you can cash in on medicaid and SS...Stick it to them...:-)
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calitennflo4 months, 3 weeks ago
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We humans are like everything else here in the abode which supports life...exampled is the fact we eat and grow at a rate...as everything does...it tapers to the divine principle phi and pi....formulas that the Egyptians and all knew that long ago...are still present today. I stopped smoking by gradually stopping...adding more time between smokes...until I stopped. They gave me patches that I never needed.
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obelisk [ob-bill-isk]
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crankyrooster4 months, 3 weeks ago
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If you have quit smoking and down the line you run into any health problems, don't even admit to once being a smoker. Once drs. & hospitals hear you once smoked is's oh, roll the eyes, and automatically, your problems is smoking related. It doesn't matter if you quit last month or 10 years ago, it's the same response & the same attitude. And to think, smoking was legal because of all the money the country made, until it started costing more money to keep us healthy...
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lvrofwolves4 months, 3 weeks ago
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that kinda happened to me this last Tuesday, had a new PCP put me on a med because he said, 'well with your family history and your smoking.................
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I said hold up there....I said I quit 10 weeks ago, I got a 'look' like yeah..whatever!
I said I haven't smoked at all for 10 weeks and I'm a NON SMOKER!! (I was a bit put off)
he said, 'well with the amount of years you smoked...it's not really going to make a difference for quite awhile'
yeah ok Doc! what was the use of quitting then???
I'm still not smoking, but come on.......................
when someone says 'do you smoke? isn't that NO! important? if not they should ask, 'have you ever smoked'
granted my body isn't going to magically turn into the body of someone who never smoked, it'll take time, probably years.
but GEESH.............
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dxxy4u4 months, 3 weeks ago
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Well smokers are Screwed. They Die if they smoke, and they Die quicker if they stop. I guess the Warning Label will say, " You are Damned is you Smoke these, and you are double Damned if you Stop Smoking them". I smoked when I was in the Service many years ago. Thank God I Never got the Habit. I could smoke for six or seven months, decided I was tired of smoking, and just quit. No side effect or craving. Nothing.
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quicksilver06024 months, 3 weeks ago
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The title of this post is a bit misleading...it's about a particular class of prescription drugs that some use to help them quit. Their use is just one approach and for some, a great help.
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There's no such thing as a one size, fits all, magic bullet for changing one's behavior.
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jd47514 months, 3 weeks ago
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I found a very effective way to stop smoking. Having the word "Cancer" come out of a Doctors mouth when I was the only other person there. Thankfully it was caught early and wasn't a very aggressive one (bladder) and required only same day surgery. It's been 5 years and I'm still clean. Unfortunately we smokers live in denial about these types of things and it takes this kind of a wake up call to make us quit. Smoking is the number one cause of bladder cancer. I didn't know that but I do now. I never found Welbutrin to be effective, never tried Chantix but had good luck with the patches and the gum. It's a very hard addiction to break as those of us who used to smoke know. Best of luck to all of you who are trying. Don't wait until you get a cancer diagnosis to do it.
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mapbrook4 months, 3 weeks ago
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I quit using Chantix, but I swear it was a very intense and potentially dangerous drug. I did not like how I felt on it at all. If you use it, get off it as soon as you can. If you have trouble with it, only stay on the starter (lower) dosage and don't step up to the full dosage. Zyban was great, but I did have side effects and had to stop. I am nearly two years cigarette free.
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lubri614 months, 3 weeks ago
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I think the government should concentrate on things other than people quitting smoking. Just something else for them to control. If everyone in the USA quit, they wouldn't know what to do. All the jobs lost and all those taxes lost. First it's helmets, then seatbelts, smoking, SPV's. What's next people? Quit giving up your rights for God sake
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xeomer4 months, 1 week ago
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If you want to pay for your own health consequences, fine with me. Taxes from cigs DON'T cover the health costs to the government, it's still a loss even today with the very high taxes. 257 Billion in costs yearly to the society, divided by 47 Million smokers, that means you owe us about $5500 yearly more than you already pay in additional taxes if this were fair. Yes the government has a business to run, and they need to concentrate on this.
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