I wanna stop chuffin smoking !

maltesers_2

I smoked 30 a day for 40 years. I went to a group hypnotism in Jan this year and haven't had one since. No patches, no drugs and only a little craving but nothing unbearable. But you really must want to give up or nothing will work.

steady__eddie

Last week, I caught the dreaded MAN flu which has seriously affected my ability to breathe, move and breathe at the same time or more seriously, work. Despite this however, my nicotine consuption has only been marginally constrained :eek: . I start work at 6:30 after a 15 minute bike ride and my employment is of an extreme physical nature, I am currently a just about walking, wheezing disaster area. Smoking is killing me, I am aware of this but it doesn't seem to have the required effect in making me stop. There is no financial incentive as my expenditure on tobacco is about a fiver a week (rollups). Having no n.o.k., I do not have the dilemna of "What will my family do after I'm gone ?" Are there other motives which these smoking cessation bods can implant into my mind to get the message through to me after 40 years of wrecking my health ?

jeannieblue

steady__eddie wrote: »

Last week, I caught the dreaded MAN flu which has seriously affected my ability to breathe, move and breathe at the same time or more seriously, work. Despite this however, my nicotine consuption has only been marginally constrained :eek: . I start work at 6:30 after a 15 minute bike ride and my employment is of an extreme physical nature, I am currently a just about walking, wheezing disaster area. Smoking is killing me, I am aware of this but it doesn't seem to have the required effect in making me stop. There is no financial incentive as my expenditure on tobacco is about a fiver a week (rollups). Having no n.o.k., I do not have the dilemna of "What will my family do after I'm gone ?" Are there other motives which these smoking cessation bods can implant into my mind to get the message through to me after 40 years of wrecking my health ?

Blimey - that is a tough one Eddie...

I've not stopped altogether yet, I do have n.o.k but I'm still selfish, but I only have a few 'puffs' a day.

I think that if you have n.o.k, is irrelevant, its like dieting, you do it for yourself and no one else.

What do you want to live for?

suki1964

steady__eddie wrote: »

Last week, I caught the dreaded MAN flu which has seriously affected my ability to breathe, move and breathe at the same time or more seriously, work. Despite this however, my nicotine consuption has only been marginally constrained :eek: . I start work at 6:30 after a 15 minute bike ride and my employment is of an extreme physical nature, I am currently a just about walking, wheezing disaster area. Smoking is killing me, I am aware of this but it doesn't seem to have the required effect in making me stop. There is no financial incentive as my expenditure on tobacco is about a fiver a week (rollups). Having no n.o.k., I do not have the dilemna of "What will my family do after I'm gone ?" Are there other motives which these smoking cessation bods can implant into my mind to get the message through to me after 40 years of wrecking my health ?

Sure I know how you mean. I have COPD, been diagnosed nearly 7 years and even that wasnt enough to get me to quit.

Becoming a grandma two years ago didnt do it either

My husband begging me to quit didnt do it either

What did do it was the smell

I started to get really bothered by the smell esp on me after I had a smoke. And that smell seemed to get worse as less and less places allowed you to smoke.For the first time I became aware of how I smelled to non smokers and it sickened me

33 years a 20 a day smoker and I never thought Id stop. Sure I even had visions of being pushed in a wheel chair with my oxygen tank in my 50s still puffing away. And it came down to the smell

Find something - even if its noticing the yellow staining on your fingers and how people recoil from you when you are just back in from being out having a smoke (cos they do if you look)

Good luck xxxxx

Steph998

Allen Carr. Easy Way to stop smoking....stopped me for ten years with no cravings and no problems. Its like pressing the button to make you like you were before you started (you didn't want a fag then did you...? )

TNG

steady__eddie wrote: »

Last week, I caught the dreaded MAN flu which has seriously affected my ability to breathe, move and breathe at the same time or more seriously, work. Despite this however, my nicotine consuption has only been marginally constrained :eek: . I start work at 6:30 after a 15 minute bike ride and my employment is of an extreme physical nature, I am currently a just about walking, wheezing disaster area. Smoking is killing me, I am aware of this but it doesn't seem to have the required effect in making me stop. There is no financial incentive as my expenditure on tobacco is about a fiver a week (rollups). Having no n.o.k., I do not have the dilemna of "What will my family do after I'm gone ?" Are there other motives which these smoking cessation bods can implant into my mind to get the message through to me after 40 years of wrecking my health ?

yes!! Read 'The Nicotine Trick' by Neil Casey......... and do what he tells you

jessicamb

love_lifer wrote: »

get the allen carr book and read it. i smoked for 33 years and its been best so far

agreed - I read this book and listened to a hypnosis CD a couple of years ago and now I really dont want to smoke at all, not even after a nightmare day/trauma/trigger event. The Allen Carr book really digs into the addiction to smoking and why/how this can be beaten.

sandraroffey

my now ex husband and i stopped smoking 27 years ago when cigs where something like 3/6d a pkt. and we smoked a lot. BUT we found it really easy to do, simply because when he got paid at the end of every week, we banked every penny that we would have spent on the cigs over the week. and no matter what happened, we didnt touch it. we had four holidays that year!!

want to give it up?? then be brutally honest with yourself, really brutally honest, and work out how much you spend on cigs in a year. and dont forget to include that extra few pkts when you go out on the weekend!! you will be shocked. and good luck to all those who giving up now. you can do it. and you wont smell any more.xx

Mintoze

Please could someone tell me what the side effects are from taking Champix?

angie_loves_veg

Another vote for Alan Carr - The easy way to give up smoking.

My husband and I smoked 100 a day (roll ups) between us, and we stopped 9 or 10 years ago with this book. We have not had one, or even the craving for one since (although the first few weeks were 'wierd').

I am not saying it is 'easy', but if you want to do it, this books helps a LOT.