The Giving Up Smoking Thread!! Part 2

loopylou121

I gave up years ago now but found replacing fags with exercise was the only way - otherwise I replace with food and get fat and miserable! You need to have a positive approach to it so you don't feel you are missing something as you are getting this fab new body instead!

Thrifty_Pixie

larmy16 wrote: »

My friend's ex hubby is a chronic alcoholic, and a heavy duty smoker. He is a down and out type, the sort that people avoid because he is so aggressive and he lives to drink and smoke. It is very sad but there is nothing you can do to change him. He has not worked in forty years.

Anyway, the point is that he is in intensive care now, heavily sedated, because he kept pulling out all his (whatever you call the tubes to administer drugs) so he could go and get some fags!!!!!

Therein lies the ghastly truth about smoking. You can be lying there, extremely ill from a lifetime of smoking (and in his case drinking) and all you think of is smoking! How evil is this stuff?

Try your bestest Princesswoo.

Oh Larmy that sounds all too familiar

I currently live with my fiance and his father who is an alcoholic and 40-a-day smoker. He never goes out and his friends have stopped visiting as all he cares about is booze and his living room is always thick with smoke as he won't open windows.

We have been rationing his whisky lately (took his car keys away for drunk driving and falling over and hitting his head constantly) but have no chance in getting through to him about smoking and so have stopped trying.

He has two courses of Champix in the cupboard, one with only one pill gone, as he keeps trying to convince everyone that he's trying but then doesn't bother. What a complete waste of his doctor's time. He's been told he has liver disease and emphysema and should cut down whisky and cigarettes but never does. He spends the first hour of every day coughing (he was coughing up blood at one point, but has stopped telling us now).

Lately he asked us to buy him B&H instead of his usual Lamberts as he thinks it's the cigarettes' fault that he smokes so many - they're not strong enough. So we did. Now he just smokes 40 5mg B&H each day instead of 40 4mg Lamberts :cool:

Yesterday he asked when we were going to buy him some e-cigs to try giving up and when we said he might as well wait until we no longer need ours he complained 'how am i going to give up without your help?' We pointed out the Champix, boxes and boxes of lozenges and patches and the fact that he actually doesn't want to give up - he just wants to be seen as trying so that we give him his car keys back...ergo more whisky...more fags...etc.

He blames everything but himself for his addictions....but I guess that's what we all do :cool:

Thrifty_Pixie

dazco wrote: »

Go Princess:T:T:T


You can beat it, and you know you can. Keep trying.:j:j

By the way, I keep meaning to say that your signature made me snort

Thrifty_Pixie

Ok, so another actual update from me!

It has now been 2 weeks, 3 days, 12 hours and 20 minutes since my last cigarette...

I have saved around £17 by choosing not to smoke 175 cigarettes...

...and 1 day, 8 hours and 6 minutes of my life

We ran out of filters for our e-cigs late last week and so have been surviving on whatever we could find that was left (a smattering of low strength and mostly drained ones) until my fiance's new order arrives. It still hasn't :eek: However we've actually survived rather well. I made one filter last for four days and my fiance used only three lozenges yesterday. We did go and buy him a Nicorette inhalator last night, though, as he was getting a tad grumpy. I haven't used gum for about three days now and am only using the e-cig/inhalator when I really need it. I want to be off ALL NRT soon and do a proper detox. I'm already smelling so much more!! My fiance keeps calling to me to come and smell flowers that we've planted and couldn't smell before, and we're getting very fussy abut nasty smells about the place (father-in-law excepted ).

Hope you are all doing well out there.

*meep*

dazco

Thrifty_Pixie wrote: »

Ok, so another actual update from me!

It has now been 2 weeks, 3 days, 12 hours and 20 minutes since my last cigarette...

I have saved around £17 by choosing not to smoke 175 cigarettes...

They are cheap cigarettes, was you on the rollies?

ceebeeby

Hello no smoking thread ... just popping in to say hello and wanted to update to say today is my:

6 months smoke free date


I know there were a few of us around that all gave up on New Years Eve under resolutions, and I've kinda kept out of touch with this thread after the first month or so - but it was a huge help to have the support of others going through the same experience, and I hope everyone's still well, happy and healthy.

Good luck and huge best wishes to everyone on the no smoking journey.

Sue-UU

Hi princesswoo, be careful not to tire yourself out too much, especially with your little ones. Try a relaxing bath/shower before bed, along with a mug of drinking chocolate...not necessarily all at the same time though! You lucky, lucky girl with being able to eat all you wish - if only! :eek: Still, as you say, without the fags you could do yourself a really good deed with adding a little more weight. I'm definitely in agreement with fags supressing appetite. Good luck with the comps, a very good distraction indeed!

You're doing really well Thrifty ...both of you! You certainly handled the filters thing in such a great way...thrifty by name and nature obviously! Keep up that hard work, sounds as though you're doing a grand job with DF with his Dad too. Good on you both.

Well done on having quit loopylou and I'm pleased you're handling the food intake with exercise. :T However, not everyone takes extra food to replace one addiction with another. I honestly believe that it's good for both mind and body to work exercise and quitting alongside of each other. It certainly makes you feel good and happy if you're stopping the fags AND working out (to whatever degree) at the same time, two things to really make you feel so good about ourselves.

Very Many Congratulations ceebeeby, that is fantastic news and I'm thrilled to bits to see you made it.:T:T:T I wonder how the others got on, maybe they too will come back and tell us of their successes.

There you are folks - evidence that you too CAN quit! At least if nowt else you're doing your very, very best to get yourselves to your goal, I wish you all well with just that!

Sue x

Thrifty_Pixie

dazco wrote: »

They are cheap cigarettes, was you on the rollies?

Indeed - hand-rolled with menthol filter tips. I think I miss the menthol more than I do the actual fags now

Thrifty_Pixie

ceebeeby wrote: »

Hello no smoking thread ... just popping in to say hello and wanted to update to say today is my:

6 months smoke free date


I know there were a few of us around that all gave up on New Years Eve under resolutions, and I've kinda kept out of touch with this thread after the first month or so - but it was a huge help to have the support of others going through the same experience, and I hope everyone's still well, happy and healthy.

Good luck and huge best wishes to everyone on the no smoking journey.

Well done you! :beer:

Thrifty_Pixie

Sue-UU wrote: »

You're doing really well Thrifty ...both of you! You certainly handled the filters thing in such a great way...thrifty by name and nature obviously! Keep up that hard work, sounds as though you're doing a grand job with DF with his Dad too. Good on you both.

Well if I left it up to my OH he'd be buying gadgets left right and centre :cool:

And thank you