The Giving Up Smoking Thread!! Part 2

kindofagilr

Well done for getting to day 13

I have just bought the Allen Carr book on amazon, I am getting myself all prepared to quit

Dreamingalound

kindofagilr wrote: »

Well done for getting to day 13

I have just bought the Allen Carr book on amazon, I am getting myself all prepared to quit

Good luck, try and enjoy it!!!! and take your time. :beer:

ameliarate

OH bumped into my dad in doctor's surgery last night and he bloody told him that I have stopped smoking. :eek: Now I may be nearly 50 but I can't let my Dad down so if he thinks I have stopped then I have to stop.

Dad stopped 21 years ago (he is now 83) and, like my OH, seemed to find it easy, though I must say I don't ever remember him smoking really, apart from occasional cigar.

Seriously why do men seem to find it easier than women?

ad1jnl

I let myself down on Sunday and bought 10 cigs while having a few drinks. Haven't had one since and don't feel like one now - its kind of re-iterated my decision to quit was right. Only problem is I've got the first few days of getting really angry to go through. Can't understand why I was tempted - must be cause I was having a drink - it was the first time since my quit day.

Jon

kindofagilr

Dreamingalound wrote: »

Good luck, try and enjoy it!!!! and take your time. :beer:

Thanks You very much

kindofagilr

ad1jnl wrote: »

I let myself down on Sunday and bought 10 cigs while having a few drinks. Haven't had one since and don't feel like one now - its kind of re-iterated my decision to quit was right. Only problem is I've got the first few days of getting really angry to go through. Can't understand why I was tempted - must be cause I was having a drink - it was the first time since my quit day.

Jon

Aww dont worry about it, dont dwell on it, everyone is allowed a blip, and yeah I think it will have been cos you were having a drink, that is one thing I am worried about, I rarely drink but I do I smoke a lot, so I am not looking forward to that hurdle lol

Dont beat yourself up though

MimiJane

Hi all,

Can't believe I'm at the two week mark now ... never thought I'd make it at the beginning :j. It is getting easier, though it's so gradual I perhaps don't appreciate just how much easier it is now compared to the first few days! I hardly think about it before/after breakfast at all now, though I do in the afternoon at times and especially after tea and later. I know it's just a question of time ...

Trying not to stuff my face so much this week and determined to lose a few pounds of those I've put on. We're going away in six weeks' time to the Lake District (which I won in a comp.), so plenty of incentive, or I'll have to buy a whole new wardrobe.

Still have a sore throat and dry cough during the day, though not bad at all at night now, so getting much better sleep. With this sore throat, I feel at times as if I've smoked a pack of ciggies so, in a weird sort of way, it's helping :rolleyes:

Jon : sorry to hear about your "blip". So easy to do in the early stages (especially with a drink:rolleyes:), but just get straight back on that waggon! Although Alllen Carr doesn't advocate really changing anything, I found it a lot easier not to drink for the first week, just to avoid extra temptation. I'm not sure I could have resisted with a lower resolve!

Ameliarate : I agree, it makes me sick that some men seem to find it that much easier to give up. My BIL stopped smoking 60+ a day a couple of years ago and he said he never missed it. Why not/how?? I don't understand how a life-long habit (he's in his mid 60's) can suddenly stop and you don't miss it! If that's the case, why do it in the first place :rolleyes:

kindofagilr : Well done making the decision to stop and I hope "the book" helps you, as it did me It doesn't work for everyone, but just read it with an open mind, digest it well and see how you feel at the end. I found it helped to smoke while I read it and I actually increased my consumption as I got through it as I knew I was going to stop at the end and panicked! For a short book, it took me a long time to read it (about two weeks), but I got there and something "clicked" 'cos I stopped

Good luck everyone

x

Dreamingalound

ameliarate wrote: »

OH bumped into my dad in doctor's surgery last night and he bloody told him that I have stopped smoking. :eek: Now I may be nearly 50 but I can't let my Dad down so if he thinks I have stopped then I have to stop.

Dad stopped 21 years ago (he is now 83) and, like my OH, seemed to find it easy, though I must say I don't ever remember him smoking really, apart from occasional cigar.

Seriously why do men seem to find it easier than women?

well i think this is because Women have a longer concentration spam...

shimmershelly

Day 15 on Champix - not smoked for 7 days
I probably wouldn't have posted today if i hadn't had such a rotten time with the smoking cessation nurse today. I had to plan when to take my tab today so I knew I would be over the worst of the nausea before I left the house for my appointment. I take the tab then 15 minutes later the nausea hits like a ton of bricks, the only way I can deal with it is to lie down for a while. So, I've gone to see the nurse explained about the nausea and her comment was "well you'll have to come off them then". I asked if I could go back down to the lower dose as I read in the leaflet you could do this. She reluctantly let me have the lower dose. I just thought, some support she was, bet not many people give up on her watch. She isn't the usual nurse that takes the clinic.
But good news my carbon monoxide was down to 2 this week (28 the first time I went while I was still smoking!).

Well done everyone on your achievements and ad1jnl don't worry, just don't give up on giving up!

fermi

Dreamingalound wrote: »

well i think this is because Women have a longer concentration spam...

What is a "concentration :spam:" ?