The Giving Up Smoking Thread - Part 3

slugger09

Erme wrote: »

The longest I've gone in the past 6 months without a cig is on the e-cig sluggar...So I think that's your best bet...You can get them from a number of reputable firms right now online (I can pm you some if you like)....

Feeling better so now on a combo of e-cig and spray...sure it's going to work this time - eventually hoping to get 100% on e-cig/puffer in a few months though it could take me a few months....

I need very strong nicotine see for the first week or so but just spoke to a friend who thought she'd never quit and she quit using the e-cig and plus when you want to reduce you just dilute it with vegetable glycerine from Boots....

I CAN DO THIS....

E
PS. Sluggar....you're cig free...your lungs are better. Why not replace that early morning cuppa with an early am run...try couch to 5k (google it) and you're away.....Or if not a run - go get a takeaway coffee (or make your own) and go for a brisk walk...no reason you shouldn't get your early am fresh air just cos you're not smoking ...Hugs

Yes had been thinking about this, its just getting the motivation to get out the door and get moving.

dundeedoll_2

ERME

I remember you well from January. It would be lovely to understand a little more about the e-cig (have no real knowledge of it) and so be better able to help you.

Could you take a look at page 10 post 188 of this thread - can't quote, as it only quotes my answer - you'll see my confusion.

Well done for keep trying! :T


Slugger Defo change that 'morning cuppa' routine - I gave up tea / coffee at the same time as the association was just too much for me.
Even the dog (not even mine, 1 I looked after) knew that if the kettle was being filled up/switched on that meant : Out in the garden

Erme

If you have mental health probs this is easier said than done so my sympathies here Sluggar. E-cig not cutting the mustard this pm so smoking for a few more days (going to give myself 2 weeks. One week to feel better and one week of feeling 'well') then go fully on e-cig. Have loads of juice. You and I can do this Sluggar.

I am going nowhere. I'm right here for you when you need me 'man'...no sweat....

Anyhow it's Sabbath and I shouldn't really be online so like going to go and read/knit and go from there....Church @ 6pm so need to go get my act together...

Hugs

E

Erme

dundeedoll wrote: »

22 weeks 6 1/2 days.........this lovely lot




So here is my unofficial (cos it's not NHS) nicotine withdrawal plan

Week 1 - have nicotine as required just don't OD


This is (if I remember rightly) spray and e-cig...


Does this mean smoke 'proper cigs' as normal?
Week 2-8 - find out what I need and stick with same dose till week 8.
Does this mean you'll decide : 'I need to smoke 12 cigs a day' so you will smoke 12 a day until week 8?

Nope this means go fully on e-cig and be off spray and use what I need and stick to a set dosage. E-cig is relatively easy to set the dose...there's lots of calculators on line and you just dilute with vegetable glycerine you get from the chemist..

dundeedoll wrote: »

Week 8 - begin reduction using e -cig aiming to get to just vaping (smoking I guess) VG within 6 months
So from week 8 you start to use the e-cig (This is why I'm confused-above you say so aiming for about 3 carts a day right now...) and continue to use it until month 6? Then.............

Nope this means reduce the nicotine in the e-cig from whatever I was on on week 8 to zero so all that I'm smoking/vaping on is vg (vegetable glycerine) which has a nicotine content of ZERO :A

dundeedoll wrote: »

6 month mark transfer to plastic cig if still need the action
Use just the plastic cig - is this literally just a dummy cig, no chemicals? - for 6 months

Either/or. Either an empty inhalator or a plastic cig.....dummy cig. No chemicals. No vape. No smoke....Just a dummy

dundeedoll wrote: »

1 year max transfer to just mints
Self explanatory

It feels weird to write that out but anyhow...don't know how I'm going to reduce but I guess around week 3 or 4 I will note down the strength of the juice and how many times I'm refilling then dilute again to a weaker strength after week 8 using the VG....

And this makes me think I understood absolutely none of the above and got it totally wrong...................:(:rotfl:

Okay if I do some translation here...VG - vegetable glycerine used to dilute the nicotine juice (which you can get in various flavours and various strengths)...vaping = puffing/smoking on the e-cig. Called as such cos rather than all those chemicals you just give out water vapour - hence the term...e-cig - electronic cigarette. Basically just like the inhalator only with a battery in it and you smoke/vape out water vapour (unlike the inhalator)...also called electronic nicotine inhalator (ENI) which is a more accurate term...

Hope that helps...for now am just smoking/reducing...

Anyone of the praying type please pray for me..Head in a mess this pm again yet I was feeling so well earlier

E

whathavewedone

I was on the giving up smoking part 2 thread last year and just wanted to check in to say that I still haven't had a cigarette. I had so many failed attempts to quit and I think the reason I haven't caved in is because I was just dead set on quitting before I turned 40 (which was last September). I knew I didn't want to be a smoker in my 40s. I'd been feeling really seedy about smoking since starting again after the birth of my daughter in 2005.

Anyway, all I can say is that I don't think about smoking at all and have reached the stage where I wonder why I ever did it and why it was so hard for me to give it up.

determined_new_ms

hello everyone - thought i'd pop by and say hi - we are sooooooo quiet on here atm I really hope everyone is staying strong & am missing all my quiting buddies from when I gave up! I really hope Sue is back very soon x

just to give me some inspiration here are my stats:

Smober time: 3m 1w 5d 11hrs 1 min 5 secs
amount saved £133.14
cigs not smoked 2049 :eek::eek::eek::eek:
life saved 1 week 2hrs 45mins

dundeedoll_2

Just popping on very quickly as not going to be on until after Easter.

Thinking of you all! DD xXx

Lippycow

Got to week 6 fag free but have put 5lbs on in weight,so that is my next mission to stop eating in place of smoking lol

Kiwisaver_2

I do hope you're all okay and especially Sue, hope you're on the mend and will be back with us soon.

Lippycow wrote: »

Got to week 6 fag free but have put 5lbs on in weight,so that is my next mission to stop eating in place of smoking lol

You and me both, not sure when my clock will click over to 3 months, maybe tomorrow, but by crikey I have been putting away the food and put on approximately 4 to 5 pounds. I had spare capacity for a couple of pounds extra, but it's getting noticeable now.

It's just the time between leaving work and dinner and then later in the evenings before bedtime that gets me on the munchies and I keep eating more for lunch and dinner in the hope that I'll be less tempted to eat rubbish afterwards. The past couple of days I have added a banana as a mid afternoon snack and it actually seems to have staved off the worst of it.

My vital statistics are:

Smober Time: Two months, four weeks, two days, 14 hours, 0 minutes and 50 seconds.
1343 cigarettes not smoked, saving $929.88.
Life saved: 4 days, 15 hours, 55 minutes.

I_Wanna_Retire_Someday

I'm still going......:D