Especially if you got one without nicotine because it sounds like your nicotine addiction isn't very strong if you can go without for long periods of time like that!

Exactly...it would be different if most of my friends were non-smokers, but it's so hard to escape from it. Ugh.

That's my issue. I met a lot of my friends by smoking, so I'd have to limit my time with them whenever I do end up quitting (mostly because they're dicks who like to blow smoke in peoples' faces when they're quitting).

You need to quit hanging out with 14 year olds ;)

I agree that environment/friends make a big difference. Before I moved to another state everyone I was around smoked. It was social. Now I live in a place and have friends that REALLY look down on it. My first winter, being a Southern girl not use to cold, was the end for me. I wasn't about to keep standing in the snow by myself :rolleyes::p

Thanks for sharing this article, DrPhil. It's important info that shouldn't be swept under the rug. I've never taken Chantix, but I've talked with people who have, and their reactions/side-effects are across the board. The most devastating of those reactions was the suicide of a distant relative. It made a lot of people in my family take a closer look at their smoking-cessation aids.

Dee (and others using/considering the e-cigs), please read up on the dangers of e-cigarettes. I'd share a link if I had more time. I've read quite a few disturbing things about electronic smokes. Most worrisome (to me) was the fact that there wasn't any kind of governmental regulation on what's used in the cartridges. You really don't know what you're smoking. I will say, however, that I read up on these things a few years ago, so my opinion is based on relatively-dated information.

Fortunately, I was incredibly sickened by cigarettes (smoking them, smelling them) when I got pregnant, so quitting smoking was significantly easier because of that. I realize this isn't the ideal solution for most, though. ;)

Honestly, if health was a strong enough motivator, I'd have stayed quit the last time I quit. I don't doubt that it is still not great to be inhaling nicotine (or getting it in any form, really) from e-cigs but the plain ones with no chemicals shouldn't be a problem (like Alumiyum would use). For me, it's more about not having second hand smoke (so I can use them in the house, when I'm somewhere that I can't smoke real cigarettes, etc.) and maybe quitting altogether if I can fool myself eventually with the no nicotine cartridges. Chantix made quitting smoking easier than any other method I've tried (hypnotism, accupuncture, behavior mod programs, cold turkey, patch, lozenges, Zyban... I think I've tried everything out there but as soon as the prescription for Chantix ran out, I was fiending again and smoked again.

I do have to restate what I said I earlier. I was thinking of Zyban when I said it was the same drug as Wellbutrin. I did Zyban too and I thought Chantix was more effective.