The Giving Up Smoking Thread!! Part 2

ameliarate

I preferred this:

Don't let her get you down, has probably never smoked a cigarette in her life and if she did is was Menthol :eek:

We have to keep laughing don't we?

emilyka

Well done everyone!

I really want to give up smoking, not because I don't deeply enjoy it (i'd be lying if I said I didnt!) but because I'm trying to get my finances in order and really like the idea of £2k tax free

I've heard about these tablets that you take and they make you feel sick if you have a cigarette- does anyone know what these are called and if there are any restrictions on getting them on the NHS?

Thank you

Em

ameliarate

emilyka wrote: »

Well done everyone!

I really want to give up smoking, not because I don't deeply enjoy it (i'd be lying if I said I didnt!) but because I'm trying to get my finances in order and really like the idea of £2k tax free

I've heard about these tablets that you take and they make you feel sick if you have a cigarette- does anyone know what these are called and if there are any restrictions on getting them on the NHS?

Thank you

Em

You can take Champix, which has a side effect of nausea for some people. I don't know of a tablet that makes you sick if you smoke. You have to go to a smoking cessation clinic to get Champix.

ameliarate

I did it :j . I honestly didn't think I could and there were times when I nearly didn't. I even cried myself to sleep one night the cravings were so bad but I did it. As of last night at 9pm I completed four weeks, one lunar month, without a cigarette, having been a smoker for 30 odd years on 20 a day.

I am so effing chuffed with myself that I think I deserve a :T

Might go and buy a cigar to celebrate

oldreekie

How wonderful, ameliarate :j. I have watched how you have dealt with this and yes it is tough but there are also these wonderful moments of celebration. Treat yourself - hairdresser? facial?.

In the past week I have been out to lunch, been shopping and spent ages over a cup of coffee with my DD in a wonderful restaurant. I celebrated the fact that in the past I would have been plotting my next cigarette rather than enjoying the moment......and we did not have to sit outside in the wind & the rain

Clap clap clap - sorry, moticons not available in edit!

janiebaby29

well done Amerliarate and old reekie

I did find some clappy smiles , but they turned into love thoughts !!!!!
when posted on here

emilyka

ameliarate wrote: »

I did it :j . I honestly didn't think I could and there were times when I nearly didn't. I even cried myself to sleep one night the cravings were so bad but I did it. As of last night at 9pm I completed four weeks, one lunar month, without a cigarette, having been a smoker for 30 odd years on 20 a day.

I am so effing chuffed with myself that I think I deserve a :T

Might go and buy a cigar to celebrate

Well done :j:A:j

emilyka

ameliarate wrote: »

You can take Champix, which has a side effect of nausea for some people. I don't know of a tablet that makes you sick if you smoke. You have to go to a smoking cessation clinic to get Champix.

Thank you, to be honest I need all the drive I can get so a cessation clinic wouldnt be a bad idea. Thanks and congrats on the month smoke free, who knows I may join you soon :D

Emma133

Well done Ameliarate on your 1 month of being smoke free you definately deserve a treat.

I am on day 13 today and feeling very pleased with myself so far, not many bad cravings I have the odd few a day but shoo them away.

Keep up the hard work everyone

Emma x

haloona

:j:j:j Way to go, Amelierate. We're of an age - and similar smoking history, methinks - so I know just how much that month means to you :beer: I hit two calendar months on the 17th and I still can't quite believe it
My waistline and skin tight jeans can, though :mad: I've been muching away - anything to stop me from resorting to the evil weed, but it is definitely time to replace the choccies etc for less calorie laden snacks. I've put on a stone :eek:
I'm only 5ft, so that's loads. Oh why won't it go north, rather than South? I'd be more Pamela Anderson and less Weeble............sigh!