what kind of doctor do I go see if I want to quit smoking? I have no doctor, but am interested in Chantix…?
I know Walmart has little clinics inside their stores, can I go to one of those to get a prescription to help me stop smoking? I work for Walmart and don't have insurance yet, but am interested in the Chantix help quit smoking aid...or getting info about it. I have been a smoker for about 20 years.
Today is 2 months of not smoking for me thanks to Chantix. These people above saying you have to want to quit and that is the only way, are fully of it. I had wanted to quit many times and have bought countless boxes of nicorette and had never made it a day before. I made up my mind one day at work I was going to try Chantix and stopped by my doctor on the way home. The visit to get the prescription was $80 and the first months supply from the Pharmacy was $120 with the $10 rebate that comes with it now. After the first week I didn't quit completely like you are supposed to but I cut down to a couple a day. At the end of the second week I quit completely and haven't had a cigarette since. I filled my second month supply since you are supposed to take the medicine for 3 months, which was another $120, but a week or so into the second month I cut the prescription in half down to 1 pill a day. After a week or so I quit taking the pills. I never stopped drinking coffee or going to bars and drinking and didn't change my life at all except for the smoking. Chantix really works. As far as insurance covering it, find out what insurance provider you will have and find out if they cover it, but there aren't many that do cover it. I smoked for 15 yrs a pack plus a day.
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you should try to get insurence if you want chantix.
my mom tried to get chantix before she got insurence and it is very, very expensive.
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You would have to get a prescription for it from a family practice physician.
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im glad to see some effort
… i’d say go to any clininc and get a referal to a specialist and the specialist will give u a treatment
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your family doctor, general practioner. they do everything.
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Personally i just quit after 5 years of smoking but i think it might be in my family cause my grandfather told me he just quit one day on a cruise after 25 yrs and my grandmother just quit like year after he did after 35 yrs. But cold turkey is the best way for me i feel you gotta just actually WANT it (looks like you do want it if your takin these steps). but i have heard from 5 friends who had acupuncture and it worked for all of them!! so try that it must really work its kinda crazy and not all that expensive either and its all natural! good luck you should try it.
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There is no medical "cure" for smoking. Smoking consists of two components: 1) a physical addiction to nicotine 2) a psychological addiction to the habit of smoking
There are treatments to help with the physical addiction, but take it from someone who has quit – 98% of the battle is psychological.
I am taking my girlfriend to receive a treatment, but that’s only because she believes it will help her. If she believed that riding a horse while wearing a yellow hat would help her we’d be driving down to the stables tomorrow.
Here are some tips I can offer to stop smoking:
1) Don’t buy cigarettes. Sure you can still bum them from friends and such, but this should help cut back a lot.
2) To fight the urges for the first couple weeks, when you want a cigarette take a few very deep breaths. A lot of the crud you get from smoking gets caught in your lungs and you can actually kick it back into your bloodstream by taking deep breaths (until your body eventually cleans it out, but that’ll take a couple weeks).
3) Take it one day at a time. Every day you need to recommit to your goal of "not smoking today". Get through one day at a time and before you know it your urges will diminish.
4) Avoid drinking. As we all understand without the science, drinking alcohol lowers your inhibitions (the science supports this too, which is pretty interesting.) So, when you drink it will be much more difficult to resist the urge to smoke.
5) Find someone that will support you in your effort. If you get the urge to smoke and are fighting it, call your friend and let them remind you why you’re quitting.
Good luck!
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That’s great that you want to quit. You can get a prescription from your doctor if you want, you don’t NEED insurance but I think it is better to have it. I don’t know about the walmart thing because where I live, they don’t have those little clinics you are talking about, sorry. You could ask where you work if you could do that though.
Here is some information on Chantix
http://www.drugs.com/chantix.html
This is the prescription info
http://www.pfizer.com/files/products/uspi_chantix.pdf
This is the Chantix website
http://www.chantix.com/content/Chantix_Branded_Homepage.jsp?setShowOn=../content/Chantix_Branded_Homepage.jsp&setShowHighlightOn=../content/Chantix_Branded_Homepage.jsp
Good luck with quitting! I have heard that Chantix works well, you may have some odd dreams (not nightmares, just weird ones) but I heard it really helps with quitting. The website will give you a lot of information about it. Hope I helped!
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Today is 2 months of not smoking for me thanks to Chantix. These people above saying you have to want to quit and that is the only way, are fully of it. I had wanted to quit many times and have bought countless boxes of nicorette and had never made it a day before. I made up my mind one day at work I was going to try Chantix and stopped by my doctor on the way home. The visit to get the prescription was $80 and the first months supply from the Pharmacy was $120 with the $10 rebate that comes with it now. After the first week I didn’t quit completely like you are supposed to but I cut down to a couple a day. At the end of the second week I quit completely and haven’t had a cigarette since. I filled my second month supply since you are supposed to take the medicine for 3 months, which was another $120, but a week or so into the second month I cut the prescription in half down to 1 pill a day. After a week or so I quit taking the pills. I never stopped drinking coffee or going to bars and drinking and didn’t change my life at all except for the smoking. Chantix really works. As far as insurance covering it, find out what insurance provider you will have and find out if they cover it, but there aren’t many that do cover it. I smoked for 15 yrs a pack plus a day.
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