The Giving Up Smoking Thread!! Part 2

irishwexford

Hi Sue
Thanks for your advice. I think I have replied but not sure if it worked ok.
Well the feeling passed before OH came home from work and hopefully I will not feel like that every day. I drove to Morrisons to pass the time and had afternoon tea and cake there and I thought I was going to cry sitting there on my own. Now I am always dashing about with no time to spare so this feeling knocked me for six. I do hope its the ciggies (or lack of them), if not I am in trouble. I am not yearning for a ciggie but am restless and missing something. Oh well will see what tomorrow brings.

funkymonkey

ok so the essay over ran but its now in! and ive smoked my last cigarette! if it takes me a million attempts then i will do it! From now ive made that vow not to smoke another cigarette so thats what im gonna do!

Sue-UU

Hi again irish, no worries it got here fine. I think as well as it being the grieving of a 'bad' friend you've nailed other things causing you to feel down, but those too can be fixed, I promise! However, even though your OH has never smoked, if he's the type to be supportive then pour your heart out, it'll do you so much good. It's a good idea to get out and do something and exercise is the best way as it releases the endorphins to make you feel so very different. So, whether it's belting up and down the stairs, or jogging or walking very briskly round a park or lane, it'll help get rid of the 'low' feelings. Give it a go and you'll see what I mean. Your plans for tomorrow and Friday are just the ones I'm thinking about; 1 to give yourself a treat; 2 to get you out and having a chat with friends and exercising. I'm sure all you've pinpointed AND the 'saying goodbye to a friend' are your problems and the latter will be very short-lived I can promise. Look ahead to a far better and healthy lifestyle irish and everything will work out, just be a little patient and always find something to do at such times. Together we'll beat this!:j

Well done on the essay Funky! Well done also on getting back to grips with saying cheerio to fags forever! You've got no time for them and have every right to live a healthy life...you deserve to! Stick to your vow, but take each day at a time. You did wonderfully back a while so you know you CAN do it if you stick to your resolve to kick it out of your life for good!!! I'm wishing you well and hoping so much that you'll succeed.

Every best wish to ALL of you travelling on your journeys that are so worth the ride.
Sue

larmy16

IrishWexford thinking of you right now. Yes I think you do (or can get) lonely and depressed but the tears you wish to shed are the ones you have used nicotine to suppress. Let them out, cry your heart out if you can. Put on some sad music and let go. You will feel all the better for it. Sue has put it so well. What we think is our friend, could not be a worse enemy. It is so deceitful.

I had a diabolical day yesterday. Have a virus on my laptop. Reverse light stopped working on the car. I felt fat...fat......fat! I have now been hypnotised to no longer desire chocolate.....so all I could do was have a foot stomping childish mini tantrum. Luckily my partner is ever patient and takes all the petulance on his wonderful chin.

Now he really is a friend!

PS. Go Funky.........You can do it. I was like you. I knew I would never give up giving up. The alternative of being a smoker till the day you die is too awful for words.

SandC

Hi guys, I'm sorry I haven't checked in for an age but I sometimes get on the forum, think I'll find the thread and then it's never anywhere the front page so I give up!

So I've actually searched for it today!

Anyhow, hello to the new folks, well done to the quitters who are still quit and not to worry to the relapsers, one time it will work for good!

I'm approaching 8 months now, quit by attending an Allen Carr clinic and have to say I found it easy and continue to do so. I still do not know how it works, you are literally talked out of it is all I can say. Magic!

I still regularly have dreams where I'm smoking and have relapsed where I just seem to shrug my shoulders and go 'oh well'. I wake up and at first feel dreadful that I've started smoking again until I realise it was only a dream. I don't know why this keeps happening but maybe it's a good thing - I do worry about getting complacent as it's happened in the past - I started smoking again after giving up for 2.5 years! One fag led to another and although it took maybe a year, I eventually got back to full time smoking.

GGG I had a cough and bad throat for about 4 weeks after stopping but since then, everthing is good!

The money I have saved goes into 2 different accounts I have, via standing orders I set up. That goes to holidays and 'slush' fund for goodies or social occasions or just 'whatever'.

irishwexford

What a difference a day makes. Bright and sunny today, went to allotment to dig up some veggies and had long chat to neighbour, daughter popped in for coffee lunchtime and Im just back from a two hour facial at local college. Out at six fifteen tonight for bowls match, no time to feel low. Busy day tomorrow, appointment with nurse in morning and afternoon bowls match.
Things I am noticing:
Nice pink tongue, nice taste in mouth, lost the slight rattle I had in chest, face has lost that grey look. Its nice to plan time out without trying to find somewhere to smoke. So far I have put on only three pounds, daughter said if I put on too much to just join excersise class but I feel I am doing enough of that.
Thanks everybody for your support, please don't get fed up with me posting on here every day.
Best of luck to all those going through the same battle

larmy16

Well done Irish. You are right. What a difference a day makes. I feel completely different today, much more in control and on my side again!

irishwexford

Glad to know you had a good day larmey. I suppose we must make the most of the good days and accept the bad.

Sue-UU

SandC wrote: »

Hi guys, I'm sorry I haven't checked in for an age but I sometimes get on the forum, think I'll find the thread and then it's never anywhere the front page so I give up!

So I've actually searched for it today!

I still regularly have dreams where I'm smoking and have relapsed where I just seem to shrug my shoulders and go 'oh well'. I wake up and at first feel dreadful that I've started smoking again until I realise it was only a dream. I don't know why this keeps happening but maybe it's a good thing - I do worry about getting complacent as it's happened in the past - I started smoking again after giving up for 2.5 years! One fag led to another and although it took maybe a year, I eventually got back to full time smoking.

Hi SanD and congratulations on 8 great months of a pure and smoke-free life!! :T You've done marvellously, excellent work! :j

The dreams will come on and off for a while, but all too soon you'll wake up and suddenly remember that you've not had such a dream for some good while. At least it's a reminder to keep away from it all, though just how real it is....I really do know that well. Horrifying too to think you've started all over again! It'll pass SanD, I promise!

Great news about the day you had to follow that awful one Irish! You may find it happens a little like that now and then, after all it's a huge thing we've been addicted to for so long, but not to worry as you've a whole new life ahead of you now! It's wonderful to see you're looking at all the positives of quitting, well done!!!

Hi larmy, please let me know..has the hypnotism worked re the chocolate? I manage to handle it, but only just and sometimes need a little something sweet to replace it so i suck on a bloomin mint humbug for a while! What a let down from the choc though!!! :mad:

Good luck everyone, keep it up and never be tempted to 'just have a puff' as you'll rue the day - honest!!!

Sue x

I_Wanna_Retire_Someday

........I'm still going!

I've stopped thinking about smoking. I don't think I have been tempted to smoke once in the last week. Got on the scales a couple of days back and haven't gained any weight either. Feeling so cash rich. I barely have to go to the cash point anymore. So it's nothing but positives for me.....

Thanks.

I'll be back Sunday when it has been a full calendar month :j