The Giving Up Smoking Thread!! Part 2

missmilly

Hello again,

Well done to everyone for doing so very well with quitting, I know only too well that it's not easy.

I've just come back from seeing my smoking cessation nurse and and am very, very happy to say that my carbon monoxide reading today was down to a great big ...2...!! I am so pleased as it has only been down to 4 previously.

I had a bit of a blip a couple of weeks ago, but am well over that, and it will never, ever happen again, I really enjoy being free, and feeling so much better in myself, I even sleep so much better now too, there are just so many bonuses.

Now, if I could just stop the weight gain........... one step at a time though, although I am now being very careful with what I eat and thanks to Sue UU I am eating loads of apples and drinking plenty of water.

Once again, well done to all of you and thanks for the continuing support that this thread gives to me.

Naomim

Hi All,

Just wanted to come and let you all know that I successfully quit on 17th January 2009 and have just found out I am pregnant and conceived in February. We weren't trying but one thing I am so grateful for is that my unborn child has not been contaminated by the horrible fags!

Well done to everyone in the process of stopping.

Naomi x

SandC

Congratulations. :T

Stopping smoking probably helped your fertility as well.

kindofagilr

Hello all

I have been awol for a while, and have a confession to make.

OH and I had a massive row on Sat about smoking, he is still smoking, and despite me saying I would be happy with him quitting when he decided to quit, I obviously wasnt.

It was annoying me that he was making no effort to quit/cut down, especially seeing as he was the one who kept mentioning months ago that we need to quit.

Anyway we had a massive row (which he later admitted he had initiated, he wanted me to get angry, and he was trying to lay the blame on me for him still smoking) and I stormed out and went to the shop and thought "yeah well !!!! you, I can smoke too"

So I smoked on Sat night, I had a tab, hated it, then went home and we made up, friends came round, and I got a little bit tispy and I smoked the rest of the ten packet

I am pleased to say, I woke up on Sunday feeling totally disgusted with myself for succumbing to the evil weed so easily, but I have been totally focused since Sunday again.

I was at my quit smoking clinic today and I told them I felt like a failure and they were very nice and said I am not a failure.

Oh and I blew a 1 on the CM monitor

The have given me 16 hour patches to wear if I REALLY REALLY need it (as we are trying for a baby they dont want me wearing patches) and I think I will do ok without them to be honest, but they were saying, even if I wear one just while we go out on a night time on hols?

I am going to see how I get on and if I feel like I dont need them I am going to give them to OH, cos he does want to quit, he is just finding it hard, and we think it will be easier for him if he has patches (I have already given him an inhalor as well lol)

Well done everyone who has continued to quit

Sue-UU

Go on larmy, make it happen for good THIS time....please for all the good and healthy reasons! You know you can, so stay strong and be firm!

Hi funkymonkey and welcome to the thread, where hopefully you'll start your new, healthy life and quit for good - for life - YOURS!!! If you think back to all that you heard at the clinic, then you too could be as healthy as SandC now is! She got her real impetous from AC's clinic, I truly hope you're as successful as she is and can quit if for good!

You deserve to feel virtuous SandC, it's a heck of a thing you've mastered so why not! I know what you mean about the ex-smoker thing, but think it's more likely to be pity that we feel for others who are still smoking...sounds better than patronising anyhow!:rolleyes:

Hi Shelly and marvellous news about the 3 months!!! :T You might have already gone, but I'm still going to wish you a wonderful holiday, it's so good to hear you sounding so positive and determined that nothing will make you give up your new found freedom!!! Great news of your DH too!!! :T

Brilliant news missmilly! :TYou're doing great. Good to see you got over your blip and stayed true. Wonderful news about the CM reading being just 2!!!

Great news Naomi and many congratulations to you both! :jCongratulations also on having quit for such a LONG time, you've done so very well and I'm sure you're feeling so very proud right now.:T Excellent news Naomi and thanks so much for letting us know.

Oh dear kindofagilr! Never mind, it was a one-off blip and won't happen again so put it behind you and move on. You've done wonderfully until then so, whatever happens stay friendly in your love for each other and IF anything like that happens again PLEASE go for a very brisk walk...anything but DON'T reach for fags, especially to spite someone! From now on how about thinking that just maybe you might have a little one within you, and you are responsible for his/her health even more than your own. Go on, stay strong and don't allow anyone to rock your non-smoking world, how dare they!!!:mad:

You're all doing brilliantly and should be really, really proud of yourselves!

Sue

funkymonkey

wish me luck everyone - leaving in an hour for my Allan Carr booster session, IM GONNA DO IT THIS TIME - (sorry to shout!)

larmy16

I wish you all the luck in the world even though you won't need luck, just the realisation that you are doing the very very best thing in the world you can do for yourself right now. ALL THE BEST.

3XsAlady

You CAN do it funkymonkey. Congratulations on being a non-smoker.
Chrissie X

allthatmularky

funkymonkey wrote: »

wish me luck everyone - leaving in an hour for my Allan Carr booster session, IM GONNA DO IT THIS TIME - (sorry to shout!)

Best of luck - funkymonkey - hope the booster session works.

Listened to the audiobook of Allen Carr and stopped - just can't believe how easy it was. The lack of effort and actually enjoying the process made me have a look at this thread.

I'm not counting the days - the title is just for info. on this thread - I just feel so good about the whole experience of quitting I want everyone to have it as easy.

Its the little strange things that suddenly stick out - like last week having a walk on a summer evening in a quiet, near deserted city centre, then suddenly the silence broken by someone violently coughing uncontrollably. I looked across and it was someone coming out of a pub for their 'fix' - as the coughing subsided the cigarette was lit. It just made me ask myself - why?

As one of the other posters on here says - if I become the ex-smoker who becomes patronising please feel free to slap me down. (Hmmm - sounds good to me - I need another vice after stopping smoking:rotfl:).

funkymonkey

Am feeling so down

session went brilliantly - came out - went to the pub had two drinks and had a ciggie.

OH is still not smoking and still in the pub with mates.

came home all depressed. bought my lottery tickets online and bought three £1 online scratchcards and didnt win a penny LOL how ridiculous - i hate gambling! feel even worse now.

i just want to get in the bath and go to bed but ive promiced OH i will go and collect him when the pubs close and its pride weekend here in edinburgh so its a busy fun nightthat im missing out on coz im moping around because im an idiot and had a ciggie.

i really dont know what the answer is. when im sober i can do it but after two glasses of wine i would kill for a fag. i think im gonna stop drinking for a few weeks and see but i started notdrinking tonight and all steves mates were just mean to me (which is pathetic of me i know) about me not drinking. There is such an alcohol culture here in scotland and i hate it. they make me feel like a lepper for not drinking!

sorry im having a cry and a winge, i just feel so low.