The Giving Up Smoking Thread!! Part 2

splishsplash

Morning all,
It's great to see yet more people giving up. Best of luck to you all, you can definitely do this!

I'll be 10 weeks quit on Tuesday, and feel delighted that I haven't smoked 2010 cigarettes or spent €870 odd on cigarettes.
It's a bit sobering to realise how much money I've wasted over the years while smoking. It just makes me all the more determined to never have a single puff of a single cigarette ever again.

Best of luck to everyone, congratulations to all those who are staying quit!

larmy16

You have done brilliantly Splishsplash! Well done to you.


This is a damn good time to quit - just think that you can stay indoors while all those poor smokers have to freeze outside.

allan673

5 weeks 4 days - champix

koolcat99 - just stop smoking now trust me.
champix are not a miracle drug that makes you quit or not want a cig.

yes they do there part but you still need will power to quit. you still have to do your bit ! without willpower or setting yourself a quit date you will never stop. its all in your head.

have you quit today on day 14?
from my experience i set a quit day and stuck to it. yes sure i wanted a cig, but i was really determined to quit. its honestly not that hard to quit once you set yourself a quit date. i think you may be surprised how easy it is once you get day 1 over with.

i really hope you quit today, fingers crossed for you. let us know how you get on.

mustkeephoping

Patches and Inhalator

Trying not to get too complacent BUT I am thinking less and less about smoking and more about the benefits - the best thing for me is that fresh smell on my clothes, hair and skin. I never really thought I smelt like a smoker but my goodness the difference is unbelieveable, even my pillow and bedclothes smell different . The "moments" are very few and far between now and I am so, so happy :j.

The transition from smoker to non-smoker is not easy but my goodness what a feeling !!!!

Good luck to you all - if I can do it YOU CAN DO IT

xxxx

dundeedoll_2

SueThank you so much for being so very supportive to everyone - you selflessly give your time and are such a help to people going through what can be a very tough time.
I often feel I'd like to reply to some posters, but I am nowhere near as eloquent as you..........:o


mustkeephoping I am very very proud of you! 'Well done' doesn't seem enough...........:T Please, please try to stay nicotine free - I'm sure you will

splishsplash You were just a couple of weeks behind me.........doesn't it feel just bloomin' marvellous? :j
(I still can't get over how much you spent a week on cigs:eek::rotfl:)


A BIG well done to all the champix crew............18 months is amazing larmy!

And anyone else...............DD x

ageing_biker

hi all, havent looked in here for a while still plenty wanting to quit I see, keep trying it is so worth it, you ok sue

larmy16

I think it was Donnaessex (not Donnajunkie) who posted the reasons for quitting. Hope that she returns one day, but I know she had a lot going on in her life so maybe now is not right for her.

Sue-UU

dundeedoll wrote: »

Sue Thank you so much for being so very supportive to everyone - you selflessly give your time and are such a help to people going through what can be a very tough time.
I often feel I'd like to reply to some posters, but I am nowhere near as eloquent as you..........:o

Don't you believe it DD, have a look at what you've just written to folk above to see that you can do it just as well as me!! Eloquent..me? Nah! I just write what I feel inside...so like out!!

Brilliant news splishsplash!!! :T You really are doing do very, very well. Don't worry too much about what's happened in the past, look to now and what you're doing about it, and to the future and how great it will be to feel like a whole new person! :j

Larmy, I quite agree with your thoughts of this time of year being great when you look out of the door or window and see folk's breath pouring out of their mouths, let alone after they've nigh on frozen and have mixed all the toxic fumes with it too!!! I don't think it was Donnajunkie, larmy, Donna something, but I don't she's a.......!

I don't see how koolcat could fail to quit after your advice and help, Alan, that is excellent!! You've done marvellously by the way! :T

mustkeephoping wrote:

The transition from smoker to non-smoker is not easy but my goodness what a feeling !!!!

For someone who's so recently stopped smoking, mustkeephoping, what you wrote above truly does sum up exactly what it's like to quit. :T Very well put indeed!

Such terrific news on having stopped for 8 whole days mustkeephoping!!! :T Stay strong and keep focused and you'll be ok!

Hi AB!!! Wonderful to see you back again! So, what is it now...getting on for 2 + 1/2 plus years, surely it has to be?! Is your wife still free too. Congratulations to you both if that's the case! :T:T Keep on coming to see us, AB!!

Be kind to yourselves as another fresh week begins folks. You've ALL done wonderfully so far, so stay on track and day by day you'll get there! Keep on rewarding yourselves and feeling so very, very proud of all you've done as it's ONE only ONE person's success - YOURS!!! :T :j :T

Sue x

xxlaurissaxx

11 weeks patches

Afternoon Guys.

Well I absolutly hate myself :mad: Had a horrible day at work yesterday, got rather upset and turned to cigs I have smoked 4, but thats it, im determined it was a tiny blip and nothing more. Im definately not going to have another

I feel so stupid! I had went without my patches for about 5 days and really thought I was over them

Anyone else had a blip like this?

Well done to everyone else who has stopped smoking :T

xxLaurissaxx

larmy16

Yes I had many occasions like that XXLaurissa. Just put it behind you and move on. Soon you will be be at 22 weeks and blip forgotten.

Don't let the nicotine fool you again.