I need help with quitting smoking

I had my rny last Tuesday 8/12/14 I smoked up until surgery. They gave me nicotine patches in the hospital but when I got home I am really having such a hard time quitting. I went from smoking half a pack a day before surgery to smoking 1 cigarette a day but the cravings are absolutely driving me insane. The fear of blood clots are killing me I'm feeling so overwhelmed. Please did anyone else smoke after surgery? Did anything bad happen? I talked to my surgeon about chantix but he told me he's not that kind of doctor and wasn't sure if chantix would kill me (his words) please help I'm desperate.

I would guess he wants you to get the chantix from your primary care doc and I don't think he meant it would kill you. I think he was just saying it wouldn't hurt you because it certainly won't kill you. I know many people who have used it very successfully. I smoked for 35 years and now I'm paying for it by being on oxygen 24/7 so I strongly advise you do quit, it really isn't worth having to live the way I do now. Also wellbutrin will help you quit too but it doesn't work as well as chantix.

I smoked a week after surgery with no problems

You're only 2 months out.  How do you know you won't develp probems?

Words fail me! 

    Cannot see the point of having WLS if you are still smoking ...   Nothing shortens or ruins your health like a cigarette habit - being fat was the least of your worries!

That remains to be seen.   Your healing process - external AND internal - takes a good three months.  And your smoking is vastly cutting down on the good blood circulation and oxygenation that your body needs in order to create an optimal healing environment for your body.  The damage you do from smoking today (as with most things we put in our body) won't be seen today.  You'll only know about it months out from now if you start developing complications from the crappy healing job your body did.  

I know that smoking is an addiction - please do whatever it takes to not put another one between your lips.  You are worth it.  

Call your primary care doctor, hopefully they can get you in ASAP! Surgeons focus their time and energy on bariatrics, rather than coordinating other medication, so your GP would be the one to talk to about something like Chantix or other stop-smoking meds, or to help you with other things like lozenges/gum/etc. From looking at the drug info, Chantix seems to have some gastro side effects like nausea and constipation, but that would be something to talk to your GP and/or pharmacist about.

Smoking in general is bad, but doing so after surgery is especially bad because it slows down your healing, and when you've had your insides rearranged you need your super-speedy healing powers! Hang in there, you can do this!!

I quit smokeless tobacco and cigarettes years ago.  The way that worked for me was to finish what I had on hand and committing to never buy any more and never have another one.  I changed my habits as far as doing something different during times I would normally smoke/chew.  Fireballs/candy helped ease cravings, but that isn't an option.  So, you'll likely have to find something else to chew on...maybe a straw or toothpick, etc.  

I'm currently smoking cigars (started about 6 yrs after quitting the other two).  I am going through pre-op now and I am preparing to quit cigars, at least for the foreseeable future.  Cigars don't seem to have the same effect on me addiction-wise as cigarettes and dip.  There are some days I don't smoke any and I am OK.  I have gone for a week or more several times without a cigar without the same strong cravings that I got when I quit cigarettes/dip.  I think that my cigar smoking has become more of a habit (because I like them) than an addiction like I had to cigarettes and smokeless.  I have no doubt that I can quit cigars much more easily than the other two.  Based on my average consumption and the number of cigars I have on hand, I should be done with them in the next couple weeks.  I don't have a surgery date yet, but I am about 6-8 weeks out I would guess.  

Quitting cigarettes was one of the hardest things I have ever done, but I consider myself fairly weak in that regard.  If I can give them up, I have no doubt you can too.  Good luck. 

I can't believe a doctor would do the surgery if you were still smoking.The fear of ulcers should make you worry also.