The Giving Up Smoking Thread!! Part 2

mollie123_2

Beaney192 wrote: »

Hey mollie how are you? thats the main thing i love about not smoking, These last 2 weeks i have been a lot closer to my partner, whereas in the past i would have had to have a bath wash my hair brush my teeth before he would get near me! Its safe to say that we are more in love then ever because of this (sickly i know :A).

Hi Beaney - I've felt better, but I'm sticking with it!! And you are so right about the smell. I was talking to some one at work today who'd just come in from having a fag and he smelt - and I wasn't even standing that close to him!!

Hope you're doing okay too - I'm really taking inspiration from all the success stories on here.

Mollie x

jo1972

SandC wrote: »

Hi guys just back from a week in Egypt funded by the money I would have spent on cigs. Yay!

That is fantastic! What better incentive is there? Well Done! :j

mollie123_2

Well now it's the end of day 2 and I'm going to be honest and say that it hasn't been easy. There's been some low points today - there are times when I crave for a cigarette so badly that I can't describe it. But although the bad times are awful, I've got to admit that the rest aren't too bad. Thoughts of smoking are never too far away, but I haven't always got that urge to have one.

And I've also got to admit that it hasn't been as bad as I thought it would be. I remember writing on here the night before giving up that I was scared (although I wasn't too sure why) and even after only a couple of days I can see that there was no reason to 'fear' giving up cigarettes - my life will go on without them. I feel a bit fragile and would probably burst into tears if some one looked at me, but I'm okay. And I will stay strong.

It's certainly helped by planning my day. Although there's little I can do about work, I have changed my routine as much as I can simply to try and avoid those times when I'd normally light up.

And my non-smoking highlight today was spending 20 minutes colouring with my young daughter, chattering about a load of nonsense - time that I'd normally have spend out the back smoking. No contest!!!

Mollie x

mollie123_2

Hi greenpixie - I wish I could help with the routine part of giving up - but I can't! All I can say, is that I've had to change things as much as I possibly can such as getting up half an hour late on purpose so I'm rushing like mad and not going home straight from picking my daughter up from school. I always knew that I'd have to change my routine which is why I mentally plan my day ahead. But my situation is a lot different from yours - I remember being at university and smoking and friends seemed to go hand in hand.

Not much help am I?! Sorry, but best of luck.

Mollie

Beaney192

mollie123 wrote: »

Hi Beaney - I've felt better, but I'm sticking with it!! And you are so right about the smell. I was talking to some one at work today who'd just come in from having a fag and he smelt - and I wasn't even standing that close to him!!

Hope you're doing okay too - I'm really taking inspiration from all the success stories on here.

Mollie x

The smell on others is the one thing i have notice more, i feel quite bad before as i work in a old peoples home i bet they use to hate it when i came in to help them smelling like that

I understand how hard it is and wish you all the best

xxx

Sue-UU

mollie123 wrote: »

Hi greenpixie - I wish I could help with the routine part of giving up - but I can't! All I can say, is that I've had to change things as much as I possibly can such as getting up half an hour late on purpose so I'm rushing like mad and not going home straight from picking my daughter up from school. I always knew that I'd have to change my routine which is why I mentally plan my day ahead. But my situation is a lot different from yours - I remember being at university and smoking and friends seemed to go hand in hand.

Not much help am I?! Sorry, but best of luck.

Mollie

Brilliant Mollie! :j That was a LOT of help so don't be thinking differently! You came across so very, very positive and even more positive that you realise life has to change for the short term. I think with most of us that if we were to do exactly that we'd find quitting far easier. You sound so strong, so determined to get through it all, you're doing GREAT!!!!! :T If you need to have a good cry to help release the tension you're feeling - then do so! You'll find it helps so much and you'd feel far better afterwards. Anything really life-changing is never easy, but hang on until the nicotine's out of your system and that'll help so much. Keep taking plenty of water as it helps wash your through and cleanse you, and that feeling alone makes you feel much better. Try to get some walking in, and walk briskly! I loved the non-smoking highlight of your day with your little one, she'll love you for the time you give to her and not to fags!!! You've achieved 2 whole days of being fag-free, :T you're changing your health and by keeping it all up, you'll soon feel so much stronger, so clean and fresh and so very HEALTHY!!!!

Nearly 2 months already IWRS is amazing! Excellent news!!!! :T Keep at it, though I know you will!!!:j

By spliffs I see what you mean greenpixie. Much like so many other things in life it's habit-forming and like fags etc you need to break it as soon as you can. Try saying "not now ta, I'd don't feel so good" or something similar, if you refuse it once you'll find it easier to refuse again as you're not under any influence. Well done so far, but try to get into a different frame of mind and think "I've done one so I can do another and so on. You'll be so very thankful when some day soon you lose all the smoking-related illness threats to your health. It's so easy to think you're still young and can give it up later, but it doesn't happen like that as you'll get even more hooked on it IF you let yourself. You have the power to keep your health, to make it much better too, can you keep up the chance you now have to keep going on and quit for life - YOURS!!!! Please grab hold of wanting to give up greenpixie and stay with it, and keep thinking of that life with your BF!!!! I wish you everything you need to do so!

Sue x

greenpixie_2

I haven't had a cigarette today, but i haven't been very social today as i've been packing and getting ready for my trip home.

After i get home it shouldn't be so hard, i rarely smoke at home. I don't smoke in front of my parents and mainly just do it at the pub. My dad smokes so that smell will be there, i just hope that over this holiday i will start to hate the smell. But my dad smoking won't tempt me. I've never smoked with him, i try not to stay downstairs too much as we argue alot because we have the same temperment!

The two things that will be a stuggle tomorrow will be the change on the train, when i have a long wait i normally sneak a few cigarettes in and also in my sisters car when she picks me up from the station. She smokes (was about to write too, but i don't smoke now) and will probably light up in the car and offer me one, as long as i'm strong enough to say no it'll be ok.

I've already turned down three cigarettes today and made it clear to those three smokers that i don't smoke in my room anymore. So hopefully it'll be easier when i come back.

There are quite a few smokers in my house and i live with 23 people as i live in halls, today was the first day that i noticed the smell of cigarettes in the corridors (we're not really allowed to smoke inside, but we all do) i noticed it this evening when i left my room to go to the toilet.

Thanks mollie, your words did help and if they didn't its nice to know that there is someone else there for you. I hope that you're quitting is going ok too.

SandC

jo1972 wrote: »

That is fantastic! What better incentive is there? Well Done! :j

Thanks jo - well next year will be even better as I'm planning a safari and beach holiday in Kenya which would not have been possible if I'd continued smoking those 15 or so Marlboros per day. :T

jo1972

SandC wrote: »

Thanks jo - well next year will be even better as I'm planning a safari and beach holiday in Kenya which would not have been possible if I'd continued smoking those 15 or so Marlboros per day. :T

Now that will be a fantastic achievement! Well done again :T:T:T:T

geoffgeofftygeoff

Quiet on the post front today - I'll open up proceedings. Just about to go out for some Sat night drinks. Smoking will not be part of the night. There should be a fellow quitter there tonight so hopefully all round pats on the back will be in order

Good luck everyone. It's great to keep reading all the posts. Keep it up :T