Clif, There is Quit At Last over near the airport...but...today is their last day. They are shutting down. (I took somebody yesterday for their injections - they were finishing up treatments with their final group.) I think their office in Charlotte will remain open. Hope you find another provider - good luck with your stop smoking decision!
Is this the shot you get behind the ear? I know someone who got it through Duke and it was like $400.00.
The injection causes the nicotine receptors to immediately stop craving nicotine. There is usually only a single shot required, although there are some cases where a scond shot may be required. I tried the URL. It leads to a generic URL hosting site (usually an indication that the original owner has abandoned the site).
If you can't find them, you may want to consider lasers instead. Dr. Joe Case in Garner has a program that I hear is very effective.
How are you all finding this stuff? Hate to seem ignorant but apparently in the stop smoking section of life I am - as far as new medical type stuff to help stop. What's the laser method Or is there a website about it?
Clif, I was ableto quit using a drug called Chantix. I had smoked 3 packs a day for over 15 years and now I have been smoke free for over 13 months now. Yeh!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyway, what this drug does is help carve the cravings and after about one month the cravings are just about gone. Take a look into it. I tried everything and nothing worked until I went the Chantix route. Good luck!
I've always said I could be a poster boy for Zyban (as well as a few other causes) Over 9 years w/o a cig and as of 11/1/07, 6 years w/o a cigar. I still wouldn't hit a hog in the butt for a nasty old cigarette, but a good old Black and Mild ,...wellllllll (I wouldn't dare!)
Clif Have you considered hypnosis? My husband did this and never had another cigarette. And the fee was only $95, insurance covered. The doctor who hypnotized him also gave him a tape, but he never needed to listen to it!
Dr. Lewis Stocks is my hero, talk about a great surgeon, and really nice man. He saved my life - literally. Didn't know he did the non-surgical stuff like stop smoking shots. . .
I wouldn't go to Stocks for nothing...personally. I put very little worth in his opinion or his capabilities. http://www.ncmedboard.org/Clients/NCBOM/Public/Licensee_Details.aspx?&EntityID=59724&PublicFile=1 By personal experience, I know. He rushed a friend of mine to have surgery to remove a diseased gallbladder. After discovering the truth of his record, a second opinion was sought and...the gallbladder was found to be healthy by a medical scan that he could have ordered himself. Do a Google search on his full name and find some more good reading material. He was to be a spokesperson for wrongful malpractice suits and when the N&O did further investigation, they found that he himself had been negligent in many cases and ADMITTED to it UNDER OATH. He has had to settle a number of cases. Some may love him, but in light of what I've read officially on the medical board, the N&0 story and my friend's personal experience, I would have no confidence in that man under his scalpel. My .02. There are plenty of other doctors/surgeons to see rather than someone with a noted medical file for negligence.
Yes, doctors are human aren't they and they do make mistakes. I'll bet darn near every one of them has killed a few people under one circumstance or another. Sacry, but true. In my case, I was told by two doctors (in three days)that the pain I had in my side was just internal bruising from a fall about a week prior - and that I had a hemotoma, and it would disolve on it's own and my body would take care of it and to take a few extra strength tylenols and get over it. ((this was AFTER doing x-rays and CT scan. I could barely stand up - the pain was that bad - yet the doctors I saw (will leave them unnamed) acted like I was just looking for a note to get out of work. Well, the pain wasn't coming from where I fell, and those doctors refused to listen. I was on my way to work and popped into the urgent care type place over by Wake Med. Dr. Alan Mask (the WRAL health physician) was there and he actually listened to what I said. He wrote me a note for work and phoned Dr. Stocks office and got me in to see him right away. - it was Executive Surgical at the time- and I signed the stuff for Dr. Stocks to be able to have access to my records and he looked shocked when he examined me. He scheduled me for surgery for the next day. That morning, I woke up feeling like total crap, I could barely get out of bed. I went to the hospital, as scheduled at the crack of dawn, and was running a low grade fever. The so called 'hemotoma' that would dissipate on it's own, turned out to be a tumor on my right kidney - it has toxic fluid, in a sack surrounding it causing the fever - gross I know - The thing was almost the size of a freaking grapefruit! If Dr. Stocks didn't see the problem and schedule me for that surgery when he did, I likely would have died from sepsis poisoning. . .at the very least, I would have lost that kidney. In his career as a surgeon Dr. Stocks probably operated on at least 4,000 patients. . .a handful of mistakes - while sad for those it may have affected, is hardly reason to tar and feather the man. BTW - the other two docs I saw - the ones who sent me packing after ordering pricey testss - they have no black marks against their medical licenses. :roll: . I'd go under the knife of Dr. Lewis Stocks any day of the week.
Yeap, he does this too.... Guess he feels if he helps someone to stop smoking he is still trying to save a life... LOL I do not know a lot about him but most people that I persoanlly know who have used him - love him.... But that is just what I have viewed!! So glad he saved your life!
