not a dipper, but i smoked for 20 years, 1/2 pack at least a day, mostly closer to a pack a day. i tried patch, gum, wellbutrin, e-cigs. nothing worked.
chantix. now that worked. my doc gave me a 3 month supply. standard. you start taking it but smoke/dip regularly and set your quit date like 10-14 days after you start the pill.
last august on day 12 i was like, ok i'll quit after this pack is done. you aren't serious if you say 'ok i'll wait until my pack is done'.
didn't smoke that evening, but by afternoon the next day i bought a pack. next morning that pack was half done. i started a smoke, threw it away after half of it, had no interest in it. gave the half pack to my manager who threw them away. also, i kept taking chantix for like a few more days, that's it. never needed a refill. on some forums i see a lot of people keep taking the chantix for a decent amount of time afterwards.
how it works is that it prevents the neuroreceptors or something like that which get pleasure from nicotine and delivers that to your consciousness. by that 14th day, that last half-cig i smoked was just kinda gross.
that was it i was done.
i knew in my heart that if i had a severe or major life event, that would be a trigger to get me to grab a smoke again. well early this year i had a really bad breakup with the person i finally thought was the one. i'm 39, been in love a few times so by now i know what i want. so it was devastating. and yep, started smoking again.
i'm back stronger now so started taking the chantix almost 2 weeks ago, so my new quit date is in a couple days. i think it will work again.
what's funny is that i was maybe 5-7 lbs overweight but quitting smoking actually helped me lose weight. every morning i would look forward to that iced coffee to go with my smokes while driving to work. and usually a 2nd iced coffee in the afternoon. since i had associated cigs and coffee so much so together - without the smokes, just never bought coffee again. i got my coffee with 2 sugars and milk, getting rid of those empty calories had me lose weight. lost 7-8 lbs and was back at perfect weight.
you can use it for dipping as well in case e-cigs don't work out.