The Giving Up Smoking Thread!! Part 2

jammy_dodger

you are doing so well oldreekie 2 weeks 2 days is excellent well done :T

utlilise whatever help is out there , WE CAN BEAT THIS !!!
gain strength from every craving passed by and they WILL get less and less they'll become a mere passing thought than a physical want / need , stay strong everyone and hope you are enjoying NOT having to creep out into the cold night air to get that fix ..XxX

choille

.....though, today it told me that my fertility would improve now that I have stopped smoking....that would be a miracle:rotfl:

I can't get the Activestop thing as you need a mobile phone number?

Was out this evening & had a craving for a smoke when I got home - but craving is too strong a word.
It's very cold tonight & before I would have been nipping outside the venue for a fag every half an hour or so & felt like a right leper as no one else smokes - so didn't miss that at all.

I also don't miss the morning cough which I don't have now.

You're doing well oldreekie & everyone else.

larmy16

Hi everyone. Glad to see you are all doing so well. Keep it up!

My partner asked me this morning if I ever miss smoking? I gave up last April, had a three day blip and then jumped back on the horse and have never smoked or wanted to since.

I recall the time we went away to a holiday cottage which naturally you could not smoke in. It just rained and rained for days on end and all I could think of was getting outside to smoke. At one point I had to go out and try and shelter under a window ledge. Can you imagine that a chemical can make you so desperate?!!

I think it really struck me at that point that this was not a rational way to behave. My loved one has never smoked and though he said he did not mind, it cannot be easy.

I hid the fact I smoked from him for about a year. I was always stopping and starting. As we don't live together it was quite easy and I used to wait for him to go, so I could light up. Sometimes I would be practically pushing him out the door so I could get to my lovely "friend" (rolls eyes)!

I am just soooo glad to be free of it. It really is worth perservering as you do come out the other side and the peace of mind is priceless.

jojododd

Hi all

Im struggling with this. Trouble with me is I feel really motivated and then I lack willpower. I have to suceed this time. I really will be doing myself a great favour if I stop its the best thing I can do for myself. Also the money situation is that dire I cannot afford it anymore.

Good luck everybody.

Im going to hit some pillows now.

Jojo x

jammy_dodger

stay with it JOJODODD whatever yourmotivation for giving up keep those goals and reasons for giving up in mind financially , I have saved a whopping £254 since giving up exactly 8 weeks ago I snooked about 15 a day . am treating the kids to a wee holiday this easter so it makes it all so well worth it ...YOU CAN DO IT

oldreekie

Hi jojodod, we are all with you on this! Have you made a list of all the reasons why you have to give up? Stick copies of it all over the place.

There are lots of folk on here who have much more experience than I do and they have helped me in so many ways. Stick with it and they will be along to give advice. Yes, YOU CAN DO IT!

Well done choille - I'm not sure how I would cope with a social function though I have eaten a few meals with family and not even thought about smoking...so must be getting there! So annoying that anyone without a mobile is excluded from the Activestop programme. Have you looked at the Nicorette website? They do a similar programme with follow up emails.

captainspam

Good morning all. Looks like most people are doing really well. Keep going!!!!

I am on day 42 and feeeeeeeeeeeling good : )

Remember your not giving anything up, your setting yourself FREE.

ameliarate

I need help.

Yesterday I had the most awful day. I had one last Tuesday and it wasn't too bad after that but yesterday.......... Today I just feel depressed, I even dreamt about smoking last night.

I need to know that it is going to get easier, I know people keep saying it does but at the moment I can't see the light at the end of the tunnel, not so much as a pinprick.

At the moment I am feeling no benefit whatsoever as I was never ill, never had a cough, and the house didn't smell because I only smoked outside.

I am so close to bumming a fag from someone. Fortunately as I am at work I should be distracted for a few hours at least.

zartub

ameliarate wrote: »

I need help.

Yesterday I had the most awful day. I had one last Tuesday and it wasn't too bad after that but yesterday.......... Today I just feel depressed, I even dreamt about smoking last night.

I need to know that it is going to get easier, I know people keep saying it does but at the moment I can't see the light at the end of the tunnel, not so much as a pinprick.

At the moment I am feeling no benefit whatsoever as I was never ill, never had a cough, and the house didn't smell because I only smoked outside.

I am so close to bumming a fag from someone. Fortunately as I am at work I should be distracted for a few hours at least.

hi, i have felt like this many times in the past when giving up before,after failing many many times before the only advise i can give you is please dont do it ! just that one can put you right back where you started & all your work so far will be for NOTHING. at the moment i am on day 10 & have has 2 days at least like this (above) it is and will be all worth it in the end trust me

Neenie_o

Hi all!

Hope everyone's ok - ameliarate it does get easier, I promise and if you manage to get through this horrible patch you'll be so pleased with yourself. You should be pleased anyway. I never smoked inside either, never had a cough etc.... the thing I didn't want was like larmy said, you're a complete slave to the nicotine and that is horrible! On Friday night I cooked a curry and me and the OH had a friend round (smoker, as is OH) anyway, about 12am they were out of cigarettes and I've never seen anything like it. He walked the two miles to the 24hr petrol station in the rain just for a cigarette. I was thinking "how can you be such a slave to something" and was going to say something when I remembered the endless rows we've had if he's smoked my last cigarette or something and there's none left. And how I would've walked to the end of the earth, let alone two miles, to get one.

I'm sorry, but I don't want something controlling me like that. Never again!

Maybe that will help - I do hope so.

Good luck

xxx