The Giving Up Smoking Thread!! Part 2

JenC

Morning and thanks for your kind words. Katie I'm sre you can do it. I guess I gave myself a bit of a baptism of fire on saturday, but I just thought I had better get on with it! I've given up I think 3 or 4 times before, even hiding it from my parents for years. I was hospitalised with pneumonia about 4 years ago and even went back to smoking after that. The thing that really got me was standing in the queue at the doctors reading a notice about COPD and asking if you were short of breath and over the age of 35. I thought COPD was something that happenned to old people, some might say that at 31 I'm nearing that haha! Also, I'm hoping to buy a house next year and that extra £150 a month could be going to a mortgage payment rather than to Alistair Darling.
I'm still carrying my cigarettes in my bag, and thinking of it that I'm choosing not to smoke at the moment. I would panic if I didn't have them to hand. Smoking while driving has been a habit tihs past year. I always said I wouldn't smoke in my car is it was only a couple of years old when I bought it but when my Grandma died last April that went out of the window. So Saturday morning I cleaned and scrubbed my car so its like new again. Thankfully I've rarely smoked in my house so thats ok. I'm only on day 4 so hardly an expert on them matter, but I would say if anyone does have a wobble, don't beat yourself up about it and think that you might as well go back to smoking 'full time'. Onwards and upwards, we can do this! x

mudgekin

Queen Vi ((hugs hugs hugs)) don't you dare go back to day one. You had a bilp, just a little one and don't beat yourself up about it.

Sue you have no idea how much of an inspiration and an source of encouragement you are to me, when I feel wobbly I read your PM, take a deep breath and just get on with it. ((hugs hugs huggs))

To all the others, well done, if I can get to the 2 week, 1 day mark then anyone can and that with living with a smoker. I sat last night and worked out how much I would smoke at the wkkeend and it was horrifying that DH and I could amost get through 200 from a Friday till a Monday.

HHH_2

I went to my first "stop smoking session" last night and am due to get my champix on wednesday with a give up date of feb 2nd. I felt very positive about it last night as I have been told if champix doesnt suit me I can try something else. I'm smoking about half of what I used to already and that is helping a lot with the idea of totally giving up, in fact im kind of hoping that I will have given up by feb 2nd by gradually cutting down over the next 2 weeks. I had a co2 reading of 15 last night!!!!! but apparently they had someone with 57!!! I have started a comp with another newbie there to see who can get their co2 reading down the most by next monday. it all feels a bit odd this thinking in a new way! I am inspired by this thread tho and read it every morning.

Naomim

Morning All,

Proper day 3 for me and I am feeling quite smug with myself! I forgot to take my champix tablet last night and was absoultely fine when DH was nipping out to the garden for a smoke.

I have noticed a horrible taste in my mouth though. I'm hoping this will disappear once my tongue returns to what it should look like and I don't have a nicotine coated teeth and gums.

Well done everyone that's starting or further in. We can do it :T

Naomi x

o99

hey all, can i join in, I've just contracted Bronchitis and it has made me decide that now is the time to quit, for me it's been 5 smoke free days so far.

ljs2000

Morning all, I am on day 14 of Champix and today is the first day I have not smoked. My last one was at 10.30 last night. Surprisingly I feel o.k although I am feeling hungry a lot and dont know what to eat. I feel it needs to be sweet!

Anyway, roll on tomorrow and the next day!

MrsChips

Welcome aboard MrsChips! I wish you all the very best possible with you attempt to quit and stay that way. £150 on Cigs per month is a colossal amount and put that alongside your health and you have so much to QUIT for!!! As soon as you can get off the Inhalators the better as you'll then be free of any nicotine in your body at all. I'm sending a PM with ideas of what to try for the "feeling of having something in my hand", but for now, well done in your decision to stop, take it day by day and you'll soon get to know the ones you really didn't enjoy until they weren't there.

Thank you for welcoming me into the fold Sue-UU and Thanks for your encouraging PM, i'm sure it will be a great source of help to me over the next few weeks (...months, years).

My Nicorette Inhalators arrived in the post today, and so far i've just sat here looking at them not quite wanting to acknowledge that they are here... because that means giving up!! I've got 3 Ciggies left in my pack... will they be my last (Let's hope so)

Good Luck Folks xx

jinty271

Still hanging on in there !

My lips are so sore, and my gums and my tongue are all inflamed, I guess from the chewing gum, but am still persevering. Am starting to feel stubborn towards the cravings so I guess thats quite positive!


Last cig was 2 days 4hrs and 40 mins ago.

Hubbys smoking outside, but we had a blizzrd and I let him have a quicke cig in loo with window open. I dived in after him for a few deep breaths so I dunno if thats cheating!!


Thanks for all ur kind messages and hope to see you all tomorrow !

joop

Hello everyone and big wave to all the new-stoppers!

7 Weeks smoke-free for me!

Weird thing happened in the car today. Driving along the dual carriageway I came across a queue for road works, as I braked I was thinking - oh well, time for a ciggie! And then I felt SO angry with my self I swore! My daughter was quite alarmed, thought I'd hurt myself somehow! I suppose, like someone else said in a post, we have to experience everything to get through it and that was my first experience of craving whilst in a traffic queue!

ljs2000 - try eating satsumas/clementines - nice and sweet and fiddly enough to make them seem more than they are! Good for you too!

I am finding my diet has gone toally random, this could be a problem for me as I put on so much weight last time i gave up and I could say it was one of the 'good' things about smoking - substituting a ciggie for a biscuit etc. I enrolled at Weight Watchers before Christmas, but with a two week cold and the rest of the Christmas stuff it's all gone wayward. How's others coping?

Good luck everyone x

DUKE

I was diagnozed with breast cancer on 13 Jan & decided that if I couldn't help myself then no one else could. I felt very brave & confident on Friday in my no smoking group, Sunday evening was a different story as I sobbed for the loss of my tobacco. I haven't thrown my last bit of tobacco away yet, I can't, but I know that I must be the one to do it. I had my last fag on Sunday evening at 9pm. Yesterday I wanted to kill people ...... Today I'm sucking on my inhaler thing & I've bought a dummy to suck on the sly

Congrats everyone & good luck!