Stopping smoking - yes again!

Tyranny

Ok if I join in? Just done Allan Carr's cd rom, so i've been a non smoker for all of 10 minutes Does anyone know of a calculator thingy that will keep track of time and how much i'll have saved?
This is a scary thought, but reading the success stories on here has helped me decide I CAN do this!

mophead

http://www.whatsthecost.co.uk/

Good Luck try reading Allen Carrs books too it is apparetntly very good, I gave up for nearly 18months and stupidly thought i could just have the one after i had a big row:mad: wioth my OH so i am now back to trying to give up i have decided to stop after new year again. So i will be using this thread quite a lot for moral support.

Claire.x.

squirreltufty

Tyranny wrote:

Ok if I join in? Just done Allan Carr's cd rom, so i've been a non smoker for all of 10 minutes Does anyone know of a calculator thingy that will keep track of time and how much i'll have saved?
This is a scary thought, but reading the success stories on here has helped me decide I CAN do this!

Welcome and well done! This is a brilliant place for moral support, and you CAN do it. Just think of the money you're going to save.:D

I've found it immensely helpful to put my quit date and the money saved in my signature. Every day I visit MSE it's staring me in the face. There's something called the silquit meter which is referenced quite a lot on MSE, but I set up a spreadsheet to calculate it all (total overkill I know, but it's now become almost a ritual). Another great idea is to divert the money you've saved straight into a ISA or savings account. It all helps with the resolve.
PS I've just passed the £1k mark.:j

squirreltufty

mophead wrote:

http://www.whatsthecost.co.uk/

Good Luck try reading Allen Carrs books too it is apparetntly very good, I gave up for nearly 18months and stupidly thought i could just have the one after i had a big row:mad: wioth my OH so i am now back to trying to give up i have decided to stop after new year again. So i will be using this thread quite a lot for moral support.

Claire.x.

Hi and welcome to you as well. I agree with you on the Allen Carr book - is that how you stopped before?

mophead

Yes it was, (but i was also trying for a baby so that was a big incentive) the logic he uses is so simple, i have lent it to a friend so i am going to get it back of her.

I find it easy once i get my head round the craving cycle.

Claire.x.

mophead

Hi and welcome to you as well. I agree with you on the Allen Carr book - is that how you stopped before?

Just noticed you sig well done you must have smoked a lot to have saved so much from stopping.

Claire

PrincessTaylor

Hi all and congrats to all the nicotine free wanabees here :T

I occasionally post under my hubby's name but i have decided to bite the bullet and get a name for myself, partly because i want to be spending a lot of time on here.

My last ciggy was around 4pm on Sunday 17th December. Been threatening to attempt stopping for ages but that weekend it came to the point i either quit or i wouldn't have a two pennies to rub together.

The first couple of days were relatively easy, might be something to do with the stinking cold that i had and the rasping throat. Christmas Eve and Christmas Day however was a different story. I thought that with being so busy i would forget all about them but i was soooooo wrong! When 2 smoking relatives turn up on Xmas day i was about crying.

Luckily i got through it (with much wingeing and swearing at OH about how much i need a fag.......sorry )

Part of me feels great, i love the fact that i am saving so much money (although i can't see it yet as there is no money anyway, god knows how i was going to fund smoking till payday).

The other part of me feels so deprived, i could quite happily go a fag right now......but then i could imagine OH's usual "i'm so disappointed" speech when he gets home from work, and the face he puts on as well, makes me feel like i have commited some sort of severe crime. Then i imagine my little boy saying "mum u havin a fag?" Then i normally get a boot in the bladder from the little life inside me (i'm 27 weeks pregnant).

Normally when i stop smoking some kind of disaster happens, 2 years ago i had stopped for 3 weeks and it was so easy, then my parents have a messy split up. I was only going to smoke "this 10 deck!" then i went out and bought more then it was a case of "I am only smoking for that party just to get me through it". Earlier in the year i stopped for a month and thought that i would be able to have a sly fag without getting addicted again, how stupid was that! I stopped towards the end of pregnancy with my little boy, suddenly the fear of being induced made me go out and buy a nice big packet of menthols, a girl's gotta have something to get through the labour pains!

I find myself thinking about stopping then my head will magic up a really good reason to keep poisoning myself for instance: "It's Christmas in a couple of weeks", "I have that party next month", "I am so stressed out by money that i have to smoke to help me relax", does anyone else come out with lame excuses not to stop, even though the event isn't going to happen for a few months?

Sorry for this incredibly long post, i didn't mean to make it this long

PrincessTaylor

Oooh i have given up the Pepsi Max addiction as well :j The 2 addictions seem to go hand in hand, every time i start smoking i start drinking gallons of Pepsi Max and then when i try to cut out the Pepsi i get stonking headaches but thankfully i haven't had that this time ***Must be a sign!***

mophead

Well Done Princess Taylor!!!

I think every smoker who has tried to give has been through what your going through. I was lucky during my pregnancies because the smell knocked me sick and after the baby was born I breastfed, so there was another huge incentive it was when i stopped feeding that i started thinking well one wont harm then the big row with OH and well the evil voice inside my head was even harder to ignore. So i had that fateful one that started the 10 a day habit. Well i can't be pregnant or brestfeed for the rest of my life so i am going to have to find another incentive.
Funny that the fact im slowly killing myself and spending money i can ill afford is'nt enough. Once again Well Done to all of you and i will be joining very shortly.

Claire.x.

Tyranny

Thanks for the welcome I'm feeling pretty rough this morning, but not gonna give in!