The Giving Up Smoking Thread!! Part 2

3XsAlady

Hi everyone, may I please join the thread? This is the first time I have been a NON-SMOKER in 30yrs & have never attempted to quit before. I read Allen Carrs book from cover to cover last week, extinguished my last cigarette as instructed, then brushed my teeth, had a shower & put my clothes into the washing machine as I NEVER want to smell like an old ashtray again. I also have the added incentive of 2 beautiful grandchildren (& another due in aug) & I desperately want to live to enjoy them and must of all to see them grow up. Please wish me luck & I will check back here to encourage & for encouragement.

Sue-UU

A warm welcome to the thread 3XsAlady and such great news that you already have a week gone by, very well done! It's strange that some of us mums just couldn't fulfil quitting with our own kiddies, yet when we have grandkiddies it seems so much easier to do, weird! Though, maybe the pressures of rearing them were too great then. Whatever the reasons, we can't turn back the hands of time, just move on and make darn sure we keep as healthy as is possible for ALL of them now! US too!

You don't need to ask for luck to be wished you here, we give it out to each other in abundance all the time automatically as we all know we need a little along the way. Mainly though I'm sure we'll all make our own, but we all know what you mean and we all want for you what we want for ourselves. You come here whenever you wish, either just to visit, for help, a rant if it's needed or to exclaim your pride at yet another achievement. That's what we're here for to help each other through. I'll send you a PM in a mo, but for now......I wish you all that you wish for yourself, mostly to get back to a far healthier lifestyle and kick the habit for GOOD!!!

Well Shelley, by the time you read this you'll be AT the 10 week mark and you've done brilliantly in getting there! Excellent work!:T

Fantastic news Paul!!! You should be so very, very proud of yourself for having 3 smokers around you and NOT giving in, it goes to show what strong willpower you have, no wonder your dear OH is so proud of what you've achieved ....so far! Keep it up Paul, you're travelling a great road and may even encourage some of your smoking pals to travel it with you some day!

Another day to chalk up everyone and another to be so very proud of! Well done ALL.:T

Sue.

Snuffy_2

Hi All,

Could I join in this thread as well please?
I've been on the patches for a few weeks now and I do think I'm doing well going from a 20+ a day to 0, the only problem I have is weekends!!! I do so well during the week when I'm working it doesn't bother me or when I get home in the evenings, it's just when it comes to Friday evening, I've finished work my head goes into overdrive of craving for ciggies!!!! So, even though I've worked hard to not smoke all week I fight it as much as I can but I always do tend to slip and buy a 10 packet, but then they are in the drawer and well, then I smoke the lot. I just need to be able to get over the first weekend and I'm sure I'd be able to stay smoke free after that.

Will keep coming back here to read the other posts as this should give me a bit more help in staying off the fags at weekends.

Good Luck to everyone.

SandC

Hi Snuffy. Welcome. There will come a time when something clicks in your head about the weekend smoking. Maybe worth having a word at the nurse/docs about alternatives to the patches? Are you finding you are leaving the patches off at the weekend after you've had that first ciggie and then starting again on a Monday or something like that?

Getting in the right mindset is half the journey!

mazza111

AAAAAAAARGH Snuffy, I am having exactly the same problem. Remember those 2 bottles of wine that were in the fridge? They kinda turned into a lot more on Saturday night, ended up having an unplanned party, woke up with mega hangover, sore throat and the house stank of smoke Strange that I can't remember smoking, does it count as a lapse if i can't remember it? No one else can remember me smoking either, but judging by my throat, I'm pretty sure I was. I am never drinking again!!!!

larmy16

On my most successful attempt to quit (3 years!) I gave up alcohol as I knew I could not have one without the other. I have never gone back to alcohol and have never missed it. Mazza how I remember those bad heads. I could never stand one these days - the thought of it fills me with dread. I used to feel immense guilt too when I had a drink, even if I had not said or done anything particularly wrong - just felt guilty!!!!

Anyway I too identify with that "Friday feeling". I do think its something to do with deserving a reward, something to wind down with - its a shame that fags are so foul and disgusting as they seem to fit the bill perfectly!! One thing I found helpful was to go and sit exactly where you would have with a cig and just get used to sitting without one.

In my case on the back door step - I would just sit there and "be" and remember the horrible smell of ciggies and how bad I would feel after giving in to the whisper of Nick-o-teen.

mazza111

I'm not really a drinker, usually if i drink it's one or two glasses of wine, not one or two bottles of wine + lots more :eek: back on track today

Wesker

Arrrrgghhh i really need a cig, just had a bust up with a neighbour and i'm fuming :mad:

but i'm having a drink instead, but as you say alcohol and cigs go together, i used to smoke twice as much as usual if i was drunk

This is really going to test me :rolleyes: grrrrrrrrr in soooooo angry :mad:

Pennylane

Wesker - well done for not giving in under pressure! :T
I quit nearly 4.5 years ago and it is without a doubt the best thing I ever did. I am so much healthier, feel better, look better, sleep better, smell better ....... everything is better ....... and I am FREE (of my addiction).

I have a neighbour in the final stages of lung cancer and to witness people taking in wheelchairs, stairlifts, commodes, oxygen cylinders and so on is terrible. I think he is 60/61 and will leave behind teenage kids. He was told several years ago he must quit but he never quite got around to it.

Anyway, stay busy Wesker and well done again!

Wesker

Thanks Pennylane, i've calmed down a bit now and didnt give in

Still having a drink tho :beer: