I quit!!!! & its getting harder than easier

SIMMY

Errata wrote: »

Looks like the habit has you hooked rather than the addiction. You've had a tough few days - do you really want to start smoking and go through all that agony again next time you stop?
Do you want your babies abiding memory of you to be eau de fag ?
Get yourself some mints or something to stick in your gob to keep it occupied. Chew on a pencil - anything !

I definately dont want to stop again coz I aint gonna start smoking again hopefully,
Its horrid there are so many side effects, coughing, nausea, tiredness,
Eau de fag...EUGH...lol I dont know whether to laff or cry...:eek:

SaliMali

Hi SIMMY,

I smoked my last one the night before I found out I was having my daughter. After the test I threw the lot in the bin, ashtrays and all and was lucky enough that I still don't want to smoke now, but in the 10/11 years leading up to that point I just couldn't imagine myself as a non smoker - daft as it sounds, smoking, to me, was such a big part of my identity and I just could not quit.

I guess the point I'm rambling on about is that you have to be absolutely ready to do it, and able to see yourself as a non smoker in the long term otherwise it just doesn't work.

Oh, and a pack of nicotine gum that I chewed if I really NEEDED a puff, I only used about 6 or7 bits.......it tasted like poopy!

GOOD LUCK and well done on cutting down!:T

Errata

SIMMY wrote: »

I definately dont want to stop again coz I aint gonna start smoking again hopefully,
Its horrid there are so many side effects, coughing, nausea, tiredness,
Eau de fag...EUGH...lol I dont know whether to laff or cry...:eek:

You hadn't realised you, your hair, your clothes and your house all stink of cigarette smoke ? Everyone else has

codwidow

Well done I quit when I was pregnant with DD1 in 2002 and it was hard, I went to an NHS group and they all looked down their noses at me because I was pregnant. My pregnancy was very stressful and I had lost my mum less than a year earlier but I managed to quit although I did start again when my baby was about 1 after a night out I was offered one and took it I am ashamed to say

We decided to have another baby in 2005 and so I decided that before I got pg again I would quit once and for all so I trotted along to the NHS group and I stopped the first meeting I had, they test your breath, everything, there is no getting away from it, that was in 2005 6 months after I quit we started trying I got pg within weeks and I never went back to it, I cant say I dont miss it at times but it really is gross, it stinks and its so bad for you its unreal. I am proud to say I have never smoked since but my success is partly down to the inhalator, if you are struggling get yourself one of these, anything is better than actually smoking, they were a lifeline for me, I never thought I could do it but I did, and so can you x

Agutka

Change your routine, so you have less instances where you'd normally light up. I took up chocolate instead, so directed cravings at that .
It did take me months to stop feeling like a smoker, and two years I'd say to turn against them :A . Although I still get a funny fleeting craving once or twice a year!

kitekat

Hi SIMMY hang on in there you are doing great.I stopped 2yrs ago this month,cold turkey.Keep busy,each time you get a craving go and do something it will take your mind off it and keep doing this till you get over the worst of it.I swapped drinking tea for coffee or juice coz i always associated tea with a ciggy so i changed the pattern and eventually went back to tea when my cravings were gone.

Errata

Simmy - shall I make it easy for you ? OK - you can have a fag if you pop your coat on over your nightie and walk five miles in the freezing cold. Right now ! :eek:

You'll do it if you really, really want a fag. Won't you ?

SIMMY

Errata wrote: »

Simmy - shall I make it easy for you ? OK - you can have a fag if you pop your coat on over your nightie and walk five miles in the freezing cold. Right now ! :eek:

You'll do it if you really, really want a fag. Won't you ?

Hahaha Errata if the OH was home and it meant the kids werent to be left alone sleeping I would take you up on the offer lol...x x x:rotfl:

Molly41

Get support from midwife, GP, surgery. There are things they can do to help you especially as you are pregnant - special smoking cessation. You can have NRT and it may well help. Really well done x

xmaslolly76

Its really hard its the habbit more than the addiction thats hard to get over. My advice would be to change your routine as much as possible so you arent doing the things you usually would at the times you would normally want a ciggarette if you really think about the times that you smoked it really isnt that hard to just to change a small thingie after i ate i always wanted a cigarette so i would wash up straight away instead you have to keep yourself busy. I also found taking it an hr at a time rather than a day its an easier goal to reach and less stressfull to think about :-)

Your doing ever so well keep it up and goodluck with the baby x