The Giving Up Smoking Thread!! Part 2

Doomcow

try the Doomcow way some of my friends tried taking medication to quit smoking and all of them have started once more or found it seriously hard to quit. (bear in mind i dont even take asprin if i can help it!)

but then again, there are loads of positive stories about to quit here and i have no doubt that you will quit smoking.

tennismum

Evening all. I have been a lurker around this site for a while, posting occasionally but i seem to spend copious hours trying to find anything i might have missed in this quest to be debt free. I get really exciting when i have enough 5p pieces to make up a £5 bag and yet i think nothing of setting fire to a fiver plus every day!

I've been halfheartedly giving up smoking for a while and have a weeks supply of patches sitting on my kitchen shelf so sitting here in the small hours with the rest of the family soundly snoring i have decided to bite the bullet.

Patch now in place. cup of tea made. time to state my plan to the world.

its not even really about the money although that is a definate incentive. How can you stick to a budget of £5 a day when fags cost nearly £6!
I want to be healthy. (i am totally unfit, its my daughter who plays tennis, i wouldnt last 5 minutes on court).

So here goes. I am not making any promises to myself, i have failed too many times in the past for that but i have to stay strong. remember my goals. and take each day (well hour!) at a time.

heres hoping.... looking forward to some crazy dreams tonight!!

Sue-UU

Congratulations on such a success Doomcow!!! :T 18 months is a long time and you have a great deal to be proud of, very well done! I quit on Christmas Eve 1998 so I've been free for just over 10 years!! :j I couldn't be more thrilled as I worried myself sick about all the health issues associated with smoking. I hope with all my heart that all those who have come to this thread and the one before will very soon all be free from it's evil powers!

Hi Naomi, I agree with the money side of helping us quit. When I used to get to a spot where I wobbled just a bit, I'd look at just how much I'd saved and it really helped me get over it. It might not always be the money that we quit for, but to be saving it is a wonderful incentive and it's that that we need at times! Well done for trying to coax maccababe to quit!!!

Hi maccababe and all the very best in trying again! It's one thing to fail a few times, but it shows just how determined you are when you don't give up trying to quit! I wish you all the very best when starting on Monday and hope it's the start of a smoke-free life for your sake and all your loved ones. Make a firm resolve and strengthen it each day!

Keep it up everyone, you're doing yourselves a great favour and will have a wonderful life ahead after you get to that great goal! Keep your eyes on the road!

Sue

Sue-UU

Sorry tennismum, only just seen your post. Welcome to the thread and all the very best to you for being successful THIS time!!! You have all the right reasons written above so now all you need is the willpower and strength to see it through and start a really healthy lifestyle. Look ahead to when you WILL be able to play tennis with your young lass, what a reward that would be, for her too as I expect she obviously worries about you and your health.

Go one tennismum, make this time the time that is so very successful for you all! I'm sending a PM, look for some helpful tips in there and come on here as often as you wish. Tell us how you're going and exactly how you feel. We'll all help you as much as we can, we'll support you all the way too. All the very best.

Sue

maccababe

Naomi, I have tried Allan Carr and I got the concept of it all but it didn't work for me. Like you, its worked wonderfully for some of my friends who went smoke free with Allan Carr about 10 years ago, so there is definately something in it and I would definately recommend it to anyone trying to give up. Am sitting here at the kitchen table having tea and toast with a hangover (dinner at friends) at least when I stop smoking my hangovers won't be so bad!

Naomim

maccababe wrote: »

Naomi, I have tried Allan Carr and I got the concept of it all but it didn't work for me. Like you, its worked wonderfully for some of my friends who went smoke free with Allan Carr about 10 years ago, so there is definately something in it and I would definately recommend it to anyone trying to give up. Am sitting here at the kitchen table having tea and toast with a hangover (dinner at friends) at least when I stop smoking my hangovers won't be so bad!

Oh I really agree! I hardly ever drink and last week I managed to get myself completely plastered Yes I woke up with a raging headache but it went by 10am without the help of further drugs and I wasn't sick either. I'm sure not smoking made it much better than it would normally have been. Last time I got drunk was 6 years ago and it was so bad I swore I'd not do it again

As for the smoking, you need to find a way in to that stubborness inside.. it's there somewhere! lol

Naomi x

louserendipity

hi everyone
well it is now just over a week since my last cigarette
i had my last champix on wednesday morning and i have to say i am no worse off without them , i still don't miss my fags and actually think OH smells disgusting when he comes in after a fag

i dreamt last night that i smoked a cigarette after a week of none and i woke up so upset,it took me a while to realise that it was only a dream !

i put my fags money for the week in my sealed tin last monday =£25 , will have another £25 to add tomorrow. i am looking forward to booking flights to somewhere hot with my OH and 5 kids one day,i know quitting smoking won't pay for it all but it will go a long way towards it.

i think like many of you,champix helped me tap into my willpower as i don't feel any worse whatsoever . my lungs are starting to clear out now which is disgusting , and my junk food intake is out of hand but at least i don't smoke anymore ! i will tackle the food issues further down the line.

sorry for rambling but i feel better now :rotfl:

maccababe

louserendipity, you are doing so well, don't worry it won't be long until you are digging your toes in silky sand under blue sky's, looking out on a turquoise sea. doesn't that sound lovely. very different from the view from my kitchen window! Can you tell me, how did Champix work for you, did the urges just stop and how do you cope with mood swings. I am stopping tomorrow with the help of patches but im intrigued by Champix - thanks.

louserendipity

hi thanks maccababe mmm that does sound tempting !

well i was not sure about taking the champix as i am very sick phobic.eventually i just went for it and thought what the hell !
as it turned out they didn't make me feel ill at all
by about day 5 i just "forgot" to smoke at times when i normally would , then decided to cut out the first one of the day in my dressing gown etc
by saturday i had 3 left and only managed 2 of them

so last sunday was my first fag free day-tues and weds this week i only took one of the 2 tablets and thursday i forgot in the morning so i just stopped altogether

i had one day where i was really emotional but i don't know if that was the champix or just other stuff i have going on in my lfe (complicated !!)

well good luck hun you can do it however you decide and it will be so worth it in the end
lou x x x

adarynefoedd

A month tomorrow. Still on the patches tried to down size to 14mg but failed so still on 21mg maximum. Still they recommend 6 weeks on the top patch before switching. Occasionally have a craving big one on Fri :eek: thought I would stop at a garage and buy some cigarettes but gritted my teeth and drove on!! :j

Has anyone experienced moving down the patches? Is it hard?

Thanks for all your support / diolch i chi am eich cymorth