Anyone used Chantix ???

[Ron61]

From talking to a few that I know who have kicked habits, it does seem the smoking is the harder to do. One person that I knew was a complete wreck and heroine addict for years. He told me he woke up in a gutter one morning all messed up from throwing up and decided that if that was all he was going to do with his life it wasn't worth it. He knew a man that had a cabin up in the mountains about 40 miles from the nearest town and it was on private land. He asked him if he would take him up there and take everything that could be used except basic food out and come back in three to four weeks. There was a mountain stream about 100 yards from the cabin and the guy left Larry there with nothing but basic food and cleaned everything else out of the cabin. Larry told me that for about a week he thought he was going to die and then he was afraid he wouldn't. On the 3rd week he started feeling a little better and ate some. He said he then staggered out to the stream and just laid down in that cold water for a while. After that he got up, threw away the clothes he had been wearing, cleaned the cabin, ate a good meal and started taking walks. He said he had never had any desire to touch any type of dope after that. I knew him for several years and he was one of the nicest people around and wouldn't even go back to the towns where he had been when he was using. To me, that took real will power and a lot of self sacrifice as no one made him do it. He also gives talks at rehab centers, and most find it hard to believe that anyone could just quit like that.

Ron