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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
07/02/09

In reply to Stop Smoking and Kill Yourself
Email please and let me know who which Gawker drone is on my facebook friend's list? It doesn't matter anymore... I kind of enjoy it now, but am curious. It won't affect the quality of my facebooking, promise.
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HiredGoons
07/02/09

In reply to Stop Smoking and Kill Yourself
It's as easy as becoming addicted to sex.
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Rumpelstilskin
07/02/09

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All this is making me want a CIGARETTE!!!!

I have a friend who had a down-on-the-floor-shaking-couldn't-speak seizure, supposedly from taking Welbutrin.
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Pinekatz
07/02/09

@Rumpelstilskin: Oh yes. Wellbutrin is well-known for its inducement of seizure activity. No one should ever take it for anything.
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slimceagirl
07/02/09

In reply to Stop Smoking and Kill Yourself
I took Zyban when it first came out and started crying when I saw a duck because they can fly and swim, but we can only swim. It wasn't fair!

And when that happened, I realized it was time to quit the medicine and start smoking again.

I finally quit through hypnotism, but then I was tormented by demons and alcohol afterwards. For that, only Jesus Christ can save you! Now I am free! Praise God!
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CaptainFantastic
07/02/09

@slimceagirl: You sound like fun. (<-not sarcasm)
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Dürer's Rhino
07/02/09

In reply to Stop Smoking and Kill Yourself
There's nothing at all wrong with science. There is everything wrong with massaging the data just to make a buck.

Pharmacuetical companies care very little for science when it says that their little moneymakers kill people.
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The Real JR
07/02/09

In reply to Stop Smoking and Kill Yourself
Wellbutrin FTW.
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Talaton
07/02/09

@The Real JR: Honestly. I've read that certain people have bad reactions to it but Wellbutrin is, to me, the greatest creation of man. Right ahead of the cigarette.
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The Real JR
07/02/09

@Talaton: I totally agree. Really took the edge off of cutting down to quitting.
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Hydroceph
07/02/09

In reply to Stop Smoking and Kill Yourself
So let me get this straight. Keep smoking and kill yourself, or take the meds and do it sooner. Hmmm. At least with the meds, I won't be exposed to your choking clouds of smoke which have, in fact, landed me in the ER before.
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Nic Fit
07/02/09

In reply to Stop Smoking and Kill Yourself
Remember when science was telling us all to switch to margarine. You know, hydrogenated oil? That one didn't work out so well either.
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dragonhorse
07/02/09

In reply to Stop Smoking and Kill Yourself
I tried Chantix nearly 2 years ago. After a couple of weeks of harrowing nightmares and FIght Club level general anger toward the world, I stopped cold turkey. My Doctor's response to my report: Oh yeah, I've heard it can make people edgy. I no longer smoke, and don't want to. I no longer take Chantix, but still get flashbacks.

And I don't think nicotine withdrawal drives people to suicide.

Scarier living through chemistry.
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Sargasm
07/02/09

@dragonhorse: "Edgy?" I did great for a couple of months, damn near was done with smoking. Then I started having fantasies of how I was going to kill myself. Very, very detailed plans in my head. Who was I going to tell? Was I going to freeze to death in my beloved mountains? Overdose? I wasn't even depressed! I just had this intense conviction to die. I guess if Chantix can kill the will to smoke, killing the will to live is easy.
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Pinekatz
07/02/09

@dragonhorse: Next, try and quit that Doctor. What you described is well documented in the medical literature. And on Gawker.
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ChillbearLatrigue
07/02/09

In reply to Stop Smoking and Kill Yourself
As long as it gets the job done, who cares how someone ends their addiction to cigarettes. Its a disgusting habit that people should end by any means necessary.
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Nic Fit
07/02/09

@ChillbearLatrigue: Oh fuck off and give me a cigarette.
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Mount_Prion
07/02/09

@ChillbearLatrigue: Getting abortions is a disgusting habit, too.
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Dürer's Rhino
07/02/09

@ChillbearLatrigue: I quit going on four years ago. It was incredibly difficult and I can safely say from experience that with or without patches, medications, etc, no one, not one person, can actually quit until they are DONE smoking and absolutely ready to quit. Trust me, smokers already know every bad thing that there is regarding smoking and no amount of edgy comments and scornful internet glances will move anyone to kicking the habit.
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Private Hangnail
07/02/09

In reply to Stop Smoking and Kill Yourself
I took Wellbutrin for about a week. It made me cry hysterically and constantly, which in the bucolic glow of not being crippled with depression doesn't seem all that bad. Cathartic, you know?
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Lizawithazee
06/17/09

In reply to Cold Medicine May Render You Scents-less
Metal belongs on the OUTSIDE of my body, thankyewverymuch.
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Nice Beaver
06/17/09

In reply to Cold Medicine May Render You Scents-less
At least each of those 340 people now have a defense to an accusation that he or she dealt it.
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restless
06/17/09

In reply to Cold Medicine May Render You Scents-less
Holy crap! I can't use Benedryl for minor seasonal allergies because of sports, so I tried using the Zicam for allergies swabs. Back to the wackness that is the Benedryl. Oh, well. Sounded too good to be true.
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kimsama
06/17/09

@restless: Dude, try yourself some Claritin or Zyrtec. Or get a prescription for a mild nasal steroid (like fluticasone propionate). Works for me and steroids can't rob you of your sense of smell.
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MisterHippity
06/17/09

In reply to Cold Medicine May Render You Scents-less
Another Zicam side effect: "Horrific, almost unbearable burning."
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