MoneySavers don't smoke!

lyndylou_3

You'll increase your chance of quitting if you use the NHS smoking cessation service! Good support and encouragement from qualified nurses and optional use of nicotine replacement therapy at prescription prices! (lots cheaper than over-the-counter prices!) National quitline 0800 169 0169.

Lovingitifitsabargain

6th Day - why is it that my partner and my sister are saying they feel fine whilst these cravings are driving me insane - maybe I am doomed to be a smoker - cannot wait to get back to work tomorrow where I can't smoke even if I wanted to - my chest is tight - my nose is bunged up and bleeds when I blow it and my lips are sore where I keep licking them - all because I want a ciggy it's gotta get better surely - worse thing is I do not even feel proud to be nearly at the end of the 6th day - just miserable !!! wanna watch big brother but they all smoke like bleeding chimneys on ther aswell

purplepurple

you're doing really well... just keep doing what you're doing! I had a really bad cough for about a year when I gave up...worse than any cough I had whilst smoking.... but the doctor said it was the tiny hairs in my lungs growing again after I'd killed them all off by smoking! The physical effects you're feeling is just your body getting rid of all the cr*p it's been having to deal with whilst you were smoking. Your body is healing itself... it's breathing fresh air and being given a chance to "spring clean" itself.... tomorrow it will be 7 days since a ciggie... the day after 8... and so on. You're doing what the vast majority of smokers wish they could do. You're giving up

Ember999

Well, it's almost the end of a bad day where I thought I would give in and have a cigarette. I didn't and I am glad I didn't. I got a PM earlier from someone asking me not to give up 'giving up'. It moved me and spurred me on to keep going with this. If they are depending on me to succeed with them, how can I let them down, so I won't. I Promise.
Ember x

purplepurple

you're doing really well... keep going!

meadowcat

The last cigarette I smoked was 9th March 1995. To be honest, if someone had given me a free packet of cigarettes every day I would still be smoking. It was the cost that stopped me. I am totally ashamed to say that even having 4 children didn't stop me.

I bought a small book. I have no idea who wrote it. It was not particularly well written. I just remember the author saying that he had marketed the book at the same cost as a packet of cigarettes. It was probably no better or worse than any other book written for the purpose.

I read that book over and over again - basically I brainwashed myself. I opened a savings account especially for my smoking money. I eventually double glazed my house and did other things with my smoking money. I used to keep a little diary adding up what I would have spent. I stopped counting at about £13,000. What pleased me most of all was that I had kept that money. The tobacco companies hadn't got it; the government hadn't got it; the shopkeeper hadn't got it.

What I am really trying to say is, you should focus on the most important reason you want to give up. For me it was the money, for others it might be health, or family .... whatever it is, that's what you need to think about.

My halo is not all that shiny. There are still, even now, times when I think I would like a cigarette, but I know that would be the slippery slope. One would be too many and a hundred wouldn't be enough.

To those of you who are trying to stop, the evening can be the worst time, but if you can just get through until the next morning you will be really pleased with youself.

:wave:

nelly_2

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.

elvis_bloggs

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.

Not all smokers die of cancer .... it's a fact.

purplepurple

elvis_bloggs wrote:

Not all smokers die of cancer .... it's a fact.

This is true... the ones that don't die from cancer die from heart attacks and other things related to the heart. :rolleyes:

Lovingitifitsabargain

7th day - cannot believe and never thought I would get through the weekend but I got there - feeling abit more positive today and it's thanks to everyone on here these postings really do help - believe me if you are craving badly log on and just read and read makes you realise you are not the only one - I know it feels like you are at times as I said in a previous posting my partner and sister say they feel ok and when I feel awful I think why me and feel like decking them one - ha ha
EMBER999 - YOU KEEP GOING I'M A DAY BEHIND YOU AND RELYING ON YOU NOT TO GIVE IN