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sezdav

sweety, im really sorry to hear that. Day nine was best for me so i hope you feel better soon. I bought a crave away cigarrette and think that definatly helped. Actually most of the time i found myself chewing it or tapping it to the beat of the music on the steering wheel rather than puffing on it! It has absolutly nothing cig related in it and isnt like it really is with a cig so i cant see that it would do any harm phsically or phsycologically.

Sending good non-smoking vibes to you now honey.... have you got them yet?!

Thinking of you sweet. Sez

Ember999

Morning Everyone, day 11 of 2006 and I awoke this morning feeling quite good. Quite proud and quite happy I don't smoke :j Had a few shots of my nicorette inhaler and I can honestly say I don't fancy a ciggie at all. Don't know what I will feel like the rest of the day but at the moment I feel good and if anyone offered me a ciggie I would say 'no thanks, yuk..'

Keep going everyone, we can all do it. Time is passing and we are all becoming non-smokers.

sezdav

morning ember, Cor i think if someone offered me a cigarette i still might struggle. Have thought about cigs quite a few times already this morning but my new trick is to try and stop the thought as soon as it enters my head. I have noticed im drinking much more coffee lately! I think iim replacing the time gap with caffene instead. Heyho!

Everyday we are one step closer to the time where we can go a whole hour without thinking of it, all be it briefly!

Sez x

Ember999

sezdav wrote:

morning ember, Cor i think if someone offered me a cigarette i still might struggle. Have thought about cigs quite a few times already this morning but my new trick is to try and stop the thought as soon as it enters my head. I have noticed im drinking much more coffee lately! I think iim replacing the time gap with caffene instead. Heyho!

Everyday we are one step closer to the time where we can go a whole hour without thinking of it, all be it briefly!

Sez x

HI Sezdav, you are doing well. I don't think drinking more coffee is a bad thing. I am drinking much more tea than I used to and although I love coffee because I cannot be bothered with washing the caffetierre I have taken to drinking a few cups of instant through the day. I find coffee and tea tastes nicer since I stopped smoking, do you? Maybe I didn't really taste it properly with the ciggies dulling my taste buds. It's funny how some days we get up and feel fine, others we feel awful. I am told by someone I know who gave up 5 months ago this is normal. He told me it will be at least a year until we stop thinking about ciggies :eek: That didn't please me I can tell you. Being an impatient type person I want this to end now! It does get tedious feeling deprived, fed up and downright miserable doesn't it. I am glad I feel better. My husband may actually like me today instead of avoiding me like the plague LOL

barbara22

nelly wrote:

Toothsmith I have a question and would apreciate an 'honest' answer.

I really dont trust the health industry (doctors) they seem to blame everything on smoking these days, Im actually waiting to find a story of a doctor blaming a broken leg on smoking.

Anyway is there ant REAL truth in smoking damaging teeth and how?



Any one tried hypnotherapy? I think its the only way I could stop. I am so weak willed.

I would rather be a non smoker but as I said I do really enjoy it.

Nelly, I'm not Toothsmith, but I absolutely 100% agree with you about doctors - not any excuse, but sometimes I have felt that my doctor's persistent blame of any condition I have suffered from on smoking has actually had the reverse effect of making me angry enough to think 'well I b****y well won't give up you oh so smart medical little twirp'. Having said that, on one occasion I had to see a hospital consultant regarding high blood pressure, and his attitude was very gentle, whilst suggesting that it would be a good idea to give up when I could think about it sensibly, there wasn't any sign of the 'soapbox' coming out or him even trying to preach about it - he simply mentioned it in passing, which made me feel that just maybe I really ought to think about it! I still smoke, but I know that I will soon be coming to the point of doing something about it - it's just a case of waiting for the little grey cells to club together and decide that it's a really good idea, and they haven't let me down in the past, it just takes them a bit of time to come to a final decision.

Sorry to go on, but as you say, doctor's attitudes really annoy me!

I did give up once after a one-off hypnosis session - does anyone out there know of any-one I could go to in Birmingham, I live in Witton and like fine old wines, I don't travel well. For obvious reasons I daren't even ask my doctor, but wonder if this is offered under the NHS as an alternative therapy?

Keep on trucking!

sezdav

barbara22 wrote:

I did give up once after a one-off hypnosis session - does anyone out there know of any-one I could go to in Birmingham, I live in Witton and like fine old wines, I don't travel well. For obvious reasons I daren't even ask my doctor, but wonder if this is offered under the NHS as an alternative therapy?

My mum gave up smoking for a while after a hypnotherapy session. I think she stayed quit for about 3 months. But it was the same with all us new non-smokers (or most of us anyway). She had just the one... and now she smokes about 20 a day again.

Im sure there is some good to come from hypnotherapy to quit but i think that base line is the same... you have to desparatly want it, understand the sacrafice and continnue the will power long after the session is over for it to truly work...for good.

Just climbing down from the soap box now!!

Sez x

Lovingitifitsabargain

Sez and Ember - sorry I am being abit negative and miserable today - just feeling really down - tiredness is playing abig part me thinks - I am not gonna let this beat me - see abit of postive coming back already !! I too am drinking lots of the coffee made in the caffetierre as for some reason the stronger I make it the more it tastes like a ciggy - gawd this is bad !! I don't even wash it up just rinse it out and use it again - how sloppy - you two are getting on soooo well and I am so lucky to have you both there - thank you -x- Loz

barbara22

sezdav wrote:

My mum gave up smoking for a while after a hypnotherapy session. I think she stayed quit for about 3 months. But it was the same with all us new non-smokers (or most of us anyway). She had just the one... and now she smokes about 20 a day again.

Im sure there is some good to come from hypnotherapy to quit but i think that base line is the same... you have to desparatly want it, understand the sacrafice and continnue the will power long after the session is over for it to truly work...for good.

Just climbing down from the soap box now!!

Sez x

Thanks Sez, and yes, I had JUST one cig and started again 6 months after the hypno session - and that one cig was for a perfectly stupid reason! However, the joy of hypnotherapy at least in my case was that there were NO withdrawal symptoms, NO follow-on craving, NOTHING! The lady who offered this service from her own house (she was recommended by a friend) just had a short talk with me, then left me in her comfy sitting room listening to a tape (about 20 minutes duration), I came out, paid my money and gave my cigarettes to my boyfriend of the time without the slightest qualm (maybe I should have thrown them away, but didn't want to waste the money I had paid for them). The experience was joyously painless and I didn't even THINK about cigarettes again, even in the company of other smokers. I didn't need to say I didn't smoke, it was so obvious that I had no interest. Needless to say, when I finally had that one dreadful ciggie, my thoughts almost immediately turned to finding that lady again, but she had moved house and I couldn't trace her - grrrr :mad: So now I suppose I'll have to do it the hard way when the brain gets its act together! As more than one of you has said, it really is all in the mind, so to speak.

Ember999

Lovingitifitsabargain wrote:

Sez and Ember - sorry I am being abit negative and miserable today - just feeling really down - tiredness is playing abig part me thinks - I am not gonna let this beat me - see abit of postive coming back already !! I too am drinking lots of the coffee made in the caffetierre as for some reason the stronger I make it the more it tastes like a ciggy - gawd this is bad !! I don't even wash it up just rinse it out and use it again - how sloppy - you two are getting on soooo well and I am so lucky to have you both there - thank you -x- Loz

Hi Hon,

Just read your post, I really don't want want you to give up! keep going for us. You are inspiring me to continue with this. It helps us all knowing others are dealing with the same stresses, sense of loss and sometimes helplessness that we all feel when you give up an addiction that has been such a big part of our lives. You decided to stop for the same reasons I did. Its a waste of money, it kills you, causes cancer and is very anti-social nowadays. I have a spare 'fake ciggie' that I bought from the chemist, if you want it I will send it to you tomorrow when I go to post Office. Send me a postal address via PM and I will ensure you have it quickly. I want to help if you need it as you are helping me. Keep going, it's tough but YOU CAN DO IT!
Ember xx

flaura

friend of mine had hypnotherapy 6 years ago still doesn't smoke he used to smoke 60 a day !!
funny thing is if you ask him now if he'd like a cigarette he still says in a sstrange way

"no thank you i'm a non-smoker" it's like a robot..! but it worked