The Giving Up Smoking Thread!! Part 2

I_Wanna_Retire_Someday

lincsdan86 wrote: »

i am happy to say im now 18 days in

Well done you :T:T I'm just 9 days behind you and feeling great too:D

larmy16

I_Wanna_Retire_Someday wrote: »

Well done you :T:T I'm just 9 days behind you and feeling great too:D

IWRS well done first of all. What I find most inspiring about your posts and particularly for any new quitters is how you started off feeling very worried about how difficult it was going to be.

Instead, as you have posted subsequently you have proved to be the case that it is not the hellish experience that we all fear. (Yes I know you have probably had your moments).

Thing is, these moments are, unfortunately the small price we pay for having got hooked in the first place. I hope any new quitters will read over your journey and see that it is our state of mind that makes is more difficult than it need be.

Have a wonderful smoke free day!

Last night I was craving chocolate so badly that it felt like withdrawal from nicotine. I was bad tempered and ready to murder someone. I got through it though. With chocolate, like nicotine, I cannot just have a little - it has to be an entire bar (large!) I want to eat it to the point of sickness. Not very nice.

larmy16

Hi All.

This thread is very quiet which I hope is a sign that we are all so happy to be smoke free and busily getting on with our lives.

Next week my hypnotist is going to help me tackle my chocolate addiction! I am so excited. My overall diet is very healthy but it is this chocolate craving that is standing between me and letting go of some weight.

I am working towards the day when I can post to you all that I am finally happy with my body weight and being smoke free.

Hope you all have a good week. Sue must be due back soon.

Beebo

Hello everyone, I decided last night, after a bottle of wine and 10 cigarettes, that enough was enough and I was stopping smoking. So glad to have found you all and hope I can join in.

I've been smoking on and off for 20 years, which horrifies me, I hate the smell, the taste, the fact that my skin now looks grey, my car smells revolting and I'm skint. Yuk. I probably smoked about 10 a day, for the past 2 years, prior to that would have been about 5/day. I've been through some tough times in the passed couple of years, hence the increase.

I guess I always smoked as at work as it was always difficult to take a break from the job, so often the only escape from the desk would be to the smoking area outside. Well I'm not working at the moment and have plenty of jobs to keep me busy and occupied so there is no excuse. I've really go to do it this time and I hope you guys can keep me on the straight and narrow.

Puzzledbubbles

Hey Guys

Havent been on for a while, was waiting for my 4month anniv to come on again - which i happened to forget!!!!!!!!! I'm taking that as a good sign but, it was on my birthday so i guess i can be forgiven

I am still smoke free and loving it - have just had to empty my piggy to scrape together change for a prescription and thought to myself how many times have i done this just to buy fags ...........

Larmy it sounds like you are going great guns well done

IWRS, keep going! you will succeed!!

Bebo - Hey and welcome - this thread is great, it hasnt been as popular since we were moved from the DFW over to the diaries board but hopefully people will keep popping back to say hi

Keep it smokeless guys

Puzzled x

I_Wanna_Retire_Someday

larmy16 wrote: »

Next week my hypnotist is going to help me tackle my chocolate addiction! I am so excited. My overall diet is very healthy but it is this chocolate craving that is standing between me and letting go of some weight.

Good luck with that :T

I_Wanna_Retire_Someday

Beebo wrote: »

Hello everyone, I decided last night, after a bottle of wine and 10 cigarettes, that enough was enough and I was stopping smoking. So glad to have found you all and hope I can join in.

I've been smoking on and off for 20 years, which horrifies me, I hate the smell, the taste, the fact that my skin now looks grey, my car smells revolting and I'm skint. Yuk. I probably smoked about 10 a day, for the past 2 years, prior to that would have been about 5/day. I've been through some tough times in the passed couple of years, hence the increase.

I guess I always smoked as at work as it was always difficult to take a break from the job, so often the only escape from the desk would be to the smoking area outside. Well I'm not working at the moment and have plenty of jobs to keep me busy and occupied so there is no excuse. I've really go to do it this time and I hope you guys can keep me on the straight and narrow.

Good Luck :T

I_Wanna_Retire_Someday

Puzzledbubbles wrote: »

I am still smoke free and loving it

Well Done you:T:T:T:T:beer::beer::beer::beer::beer:

I'm lovin being smoke free too:D

larmy16

1. Beebo, welcome to the thread. As you have probably read, we have all been where you are now. I am so pleased you found us and you are so welcome to join in. Please post as often as you need to. It is a great help to be able to come on here and have a moan or to celebrate another day of being free!

Sue-UU

A very warm welcome to the thread to lincsdan and Beebo and all the very best in your quest to get back to a healthy life once again! It CAN be done so stick with the determination you now have and get there by going one day at a time. Enjoy the experience as you'll soon be feeling so much better, brighter and....cleaner!

Hi Kezza, good to see you still hard at it, DH too. I know you're having problems with the grieving feelings, I can understand that too as it used to affect me so much. However, when you think of smoking as a friend (a darned bad one at that!) that's left you it really does help; after all however long we've smoked for that is what it's become. It was there to always grab at and use as a dirty dumby and - for some reason it bought us comfort - for a very short time until that friend had to be reached for once again...then again...and......! Then, we say goodbye to it for our health's sake and it's hardly any wonder we feel as though we're grieving! Look upon it all in that way Kezza and it may just help, but that friend has to go as it only fooled you into thinking it was something that it wasn't!!! Why not try chatting to your DH about your feelings, he may well be able to help you through this time - and believe me - with courage and patience you WILL get there Kezza, you know you've come to far, too well not too! Very often men seem to be able to quit easier than we women, hormones I'm sure, so test him out and if all's well with him then lean on him to get you through your temporary bad patch.

Wishing you well Kezza, everyone else too! Must get to bed now folks, be back tomorrow.

Sue