The Giving Up Smoking Thread!! Part 2

SandC

Same here but I'm sure my sense of smell has got worse since I stopped smoking. It's weird.

mazza111

Just back from the pool to make up for my abysmal week on my diet, am absolutely beat now. Still, you can't think about smoking while your in water can you That part has been really easy for me tbh, it's the finding something to do with my hands and getting out the habit of looking for my smokes. Get in the car, look for cigs, sit down at desk, look for cigs. I am getting better at not looking for them though. Am sure we'll get there one day

Dreamingalound

You will Mazza, all in good time!!! i still roll down the window every time i get into the car...

graemecarter

shimmershelly wrote: »

I asked someone if I could have a puff this weekend to satisfy my curiosity that I'm not missing anything, I think it's because I hit the month mark. I had one puff and can honestly say it was horrible and strengthened my conviction that I don't want to go there.
I'm still taking it a day at a time though, I think I will have to stay stopped for about 3 years until I think I am past the danger of starting again

That's madness.
If you enjoyed it, you would be smoking again. Is that what you want?

Nicotine addiction is much stronger than you think. It made you take that puff, and that will have set off a craving. That craving may make itself known next week/month/year , telling you that you need to check again you are not missing something. And guess what, you may enjoy the feeling, and thus start smoking again.

Trust me, 3 years is nowhere near enough time to be past the danger zone. Think 30 years.

Do not treat this like a game, this is a deadly addiction, so as people say, NEVER TAKE ANOTHER PUFF. You smoked for so long you know what it is like. Don't go there

shimmershelly

Oh, I might as well start again right now then.
Thanks for the advice but I am doing fine thank you, I'm not treating it like a game, I'm a grown woman and I will do what I like. You can't tell me I wouldn't get a craving anyway in a week/month/year if I hadn't done it, I'm sure I probably will still get the odd one. So far I have had no desire to smoke, in fact I hardly ever think about it now.
I'm expecting it to be difficult when I hit 3 months, as that's when my DH had his blip (that he's now over), he gave up on 02/01.09.
I'm not going to get complacent ever about stopping, but maybe I have a bit more will power than you credit me with.

SandC

That was a little harsh Graeme, we're here to support each other remember. It's only because of the support that people feel they are able to admit to their blips.

All ex smokers know, as current smokers do that no coercing from anybody else will have any effect on doing what you want to do, so it's counter productive to give a lecture!

Having said that, it is a mantra I have and was warned about at the Allen Carr clinic to not be complacent and also that the easier you find it to stop in the early days the more danger there is that you will be tempted to give it a try some months down the line. For shimmer, this blip has probably just reinforced that for her - it doesn't have to be the slipperly slope!

I say it to myself all the time. Never have another puff of a cigarette - I've been there and done that after 3 years none smoking, but it took a long time get back to full time smoking. Nevertheless it did though.

I saw myself as a non smoker since the day I had my last one on 20th March. I believe that positive thinking is always best even if someone says to you that you're not really a non smoker until youve been x months, years free. Rubbish. You're a non smoker the minute you stop. Keep telling yourself that. That will stop you wanting a puff. Why would you need a puff, you don't smoke, etc. etc.

mazza111

Shelly i felt exactly the same when i had my accident. but felt better that i had smoked 2 instead of 10. Felt even better destroying the other 8. I think we're all entitled to a little blip as long as we see it as that.

SandC - I'm the opposite, I still see myself as a smoker, but 1 who is taking each day as it comes, and hoping and praying that I won't slip up again. I don't think i will ever class myself as a non smoker, but each day counts as a small victory to me.

magicgirl68

Hi everyone do you mind if i join you? I stopped last week and thought i'd just have one the other day and guess what happened. Yes afraid to say one became two and so on, so have got my gum and am ready to try again.

SandC

Of course magicgirl. It's all about being in the right mindframe to stop! The support on here does help.

Mazza, I do know what you mean, I can see how others look at it in a different way to me - saying you are a non smoker can sound like you are a bit complacent and perhaps heading for a fall, whereas feeling the opposite way can mean you keep your guard up.

I think it's cos I stopped using the Allen Carr method - it's hard to explain but you leave the clinic a happy non smoker - that is the plan anyway.

mazza111

I am soooooooooo hungry today, could sit and munch all day long. I won't though. Isn't it terrible when you get days like this?