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April 04, 2007
Addiction & Insurance
So my hubby is trying to quit smoking, he's a heavy heavy smoker and it's going to take all his strength and then some to stop, but I'm praying he will.
He's talked about it for a while now, but he hasn't really ever tried that hard. My suggestion was to cut down first, go outside to smoke so when you want a cigarette you actually have to get up and go outside no matter the season.
He smokes alot in the basement which the kids and I never go down there and then in the spring summer and fall he's outside, but in the winter time he tends to smoke in the house after we all go to bed. It's not so much where he smokes, it doesn't really bother me as I grew up with it, but it's the amount and the terrible cough he has, that nagging smoker's cough, which with time, is only going to get worse.
His biggest time of smoking is when he's driving the car. He chain smokes then!
There is this new medication out called Chantix and it's a bit pricey, $112 for the starter kit. It's for three months and a man he works with, who is also a very heavy smoker, has been taking it for a little over two weeks and hasn't had one cigarette since he started, says he has absolutely no desire to have one.
So, I told hubby, by all means, ask you doctor about it and see if he can write you the prescription and try it.
The kicker is though, the insurance that I pay over $500 a month for won't pay for it!. They even have the audacity to charge me an additional smoker's surcharge of $12 a month because my husband smokes, but they won't even pay for part of this medication that actually sounds like it would cure his 30 + year habit!
Unreal.
On a lighter note Miss Hannah is 6 years old today! Time flies that is for sure! Happy Birthday sweetie!
Posted by tracey at April 4, 2007 07:48 PM