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Well, the drugs should help prevent withdrawal, and if you have no other reasons for smoking, then once you get rid of your body's dependence on the nicotine, you should be good to go. At the very least, you'll be less tempted to go back to it than most people.

If you keep putting it off, it won't happen. I really recommend just going for it. You won't regret it.

Frankly, not a bad idea. Like I said before, not all side effects occur in everyone, and not to the same degree, but it's better to play it safe and be prepared. No reason to take the risk. Just be sure to report any side effects to your doctor; he might be able to give you other drugs to counter the side effects.

It depends on if we're talking about total or partial vision loss. It would either be due to the really small blood vessels that supply the eye not being able to get blood to them as effectively (which would cause total blindness when the eye "died"), or increased pressure in the eye that presses on the optic nerve. It's probably due to increased pressure on the nerve, in which case vision would go back to normal after the pressure is reduced. I could be wrong, but this sounds like the most sensible explanation to me.

Hmm... the latter you might be able to consider glaucoma, as glaucoma also involves increased pressure on the optic nerve, but that is typically due to increased pressure in the vitreous fluid of the eye, not blood vessels. It's possible that hypertension causes increased vitreous pressure, but I honestly can't say for certain. Glaucoma would be a lot more serious, I can tell you that. It can progress to total blindness if not treated. As for whether or not it's technically glaucoma, I can't answer that without a more clear clinical definition of what constitutes glaucoma, which I unforutnately don't have.