The only way you're going to quit is if you actually TRULY WANT to.
I quit for 6 weeks on the Nicoderm CQ patch. I have smoked for 9 years, I am 22 years old, I started out on the highest dosage of nicotine and worked down. The first 4 days or so I smoked probably 6 or so cigarettes still. The patch does not give you as much nicotine as a pack of cigarettes, so if you are a heavy smoker, you will still have the desire to smoke for the first few days. After that, as long as I had the patch on I was fine. Then came the step downs ... I did fine with the middle step, but once I was down to the lowest dosage, I began smoking again.
It takes most people an average of *7* times of trying to stop before being completely successful.
My tips would be these:
make sure you're completely ready and WANT to quit - if you're not, you'll fail and just get more discouraged.
If loved ones or people you live with smoke - they need to refrain from smoking around you for a LONG time, or quit with you (the latter being the best choice of the two obviously).
Make up your mind to do it, set a date, keep busy on that day, and stick to it!!!!!!!!!
Good luck!!!!!
Oh yes, I have taken Wellbutrin (exactly same thing as Zyban, just called by a different name if prescribed for depression) for depression and I can see how it would help you to stop smoking. I quit taking it before I really had the chance to try to quit again, but EVERYTHING, I mean EVERYTHING tasted like shit on it!! I gagged on my cigarettes, drinks, food, etc. I guess that's why it's also a good weight loss drug. My doctor told me that what I had told him about everything tasting bad was what all of his patients had told him caused them to stop smoking. Just try it and see if it works for you.
[ 09 September 2002: Message edited by: ShAdEs0fGrAy ]