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The Giving Up Smoking Thread - Part 3
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Just done week 7 ciggie free,started week 8 today and have been putting my money away so saved a fortune:-)0
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Just done week 7 ciggie free,started week 8 today and have been putting my money away so saved a fortune:-)
totally cool on both fronts there lippy! What are you saving your cash for?
I have to say this last month has been particularly easy for me, I have really felt like a non-smoker which I am really pleased to announce, I think there have only been 1 day when smoking has even crossed my mind :TDF as at 30/12/16
Wombling 2025: £87.12
NSD March: YTD: 35
Grocery spend challenge March £253.38/£285 £20/£70 Eating out
GC annual £449.80/£4500
Eating out budget: £55/£420
Extra cash earned 2025: £1950 -
I have just been saving a £100.00 at a time and putting it in Premium Bonds,just put my second hundred in:-)0
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Hi everyone,
Just wanted to let you all know I am smoke free now for the above time.
I never think of smoking these days and it is great to be free.
I have also liberated myself of another addiction - the internet!!
Apart from doing my online banking, I rarely go online anymore, and am enjoying my life so much more. Where did I ever find the time for browsing, emailing and worst of all buying!!
Anyway good luck to all you people. It will be a much better summer for you if you can kick the habit. It gets so hard to breathe in the heat, even without smoking.
Take care all.Grocery Challenge £139/240 until 31/01
Taking part in Sealed Pot No.819/2011
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determined_new_ms wrote: »hey slugger I'm confident you'ill be grand. Just because you have a drink doesn't mean you will want a cig. I haven't found going out for a drink a problem. Good luck!
Good luck with the decorating Erme!
the decorating went really well DNMS (know you're having a sabbatical this week) and I was done by Thursday eve but was very tired. Only just feel like I am recovering and that's after 2 days!!! It was like work experience for me. Showed me I am capable of a manual job p/t - f/t but would only be able to hold it down for a week or two tops before the exhaustion got too much for me
Re. this smoking addiction
For some reason I've been thinking about my other addiction that I conquered a few weeks ago....a lot today..glad it's over but wish it was never a part of my life in the first place...
Anyhow before I got over that I was DESPERATE to get rid of it and hated and wouldn't even tell hardly anyone about it...no one knew practically. Then when I quit it I found out about all the consequences of it and in the first few days of quitting I thought about how it affects me negatively and not just others. The more I educated myself about it the more I hated it and still do. And whilst I still have the odd urge and may not be completely over it yet I pray I never go back to it....The urges are hard but have to be overcome. I find distraction helps with these times and also reminding myself why I'm saying no to it....wonder if I can use similar techniques with the cancer sticks? Even if it's just replacing it for some NRT in the short term? What do folk think...only I don't think I hate the cancer sticks yet as much as I hated the first addiction .....How much do you have to hate it to be successful? Or is enough never enough as I guess you could say?
Let me know
E:dance:
I believe in the power of PAD
Come and join us on the Payment a Day thread
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the decorating went really well DNMS (know you're having a sabbatical this week
) and I was done by Thursday eve but was very tired. Only just feel like I am recovering and that's after 2 days!!! It was like work experience for me. Showed me I am capable of a manual job p/t - f/t but would only be able to hold it down for a week or two tops before the exhaustion got too much for me
Re. this smoking addiction
For some reason I've been thinking about my other addiction that I conquered a few weeks ago....a lot today..glad it's over but wish it was never a part of my life in the first place...
Anyhow before I got over that I was DESPERATE to get rid of it and hated and wouldn't even tell hardly anyone about it...no one knew practically. Then when I quit it I found out about all the consequences of it and in the first few days of quitting I thought about how it affects me negatively and not just others. The more I educated myself about it the more I hated it and still do. And whilst I still have the odd urge and may not be completely over it yet I pray I never go back to it....The urges are hard but have to be overcome. I find distraction helps with these times and also reminding myself why I'm saying no to it....wonder if I can use similar techniques with the cancer sticks? Even if it's just replacing it for some NRT in the short term? What do folk think...only I don't think I hate the cancer sticks yet as much as I hated the first addiction .....How much do you have to hate it to be successful? Or is enough never enough as I guess you could say?
Let me know
E
its exactly like that Erme, each time you get an urge distract yourself, say "no not this one, but next one I can give in if I want" and just keep trucking like this & before you know it time has passed and you're a non smoker! :jDF as at 30/12/16
Wombling 2025: £87.12
NSD March: YTD: 35
Grocery spend challenge March £253.38/£285 £20/£70 Eating out
GC annual £449.80/£4500
Eating out budget: £55/£420
Extra cash earned 2025: £1950 -
Hi, new here, I've put down 3 days but I must be honest and admit I had 2 cigs yesterday and half a cig today.
I'm still telling myself I've quit for 3 days as I think that's giving me a bit more incentive.
I'm on nicotine gum, seems to be going OK so far.
Reading everyones posts has really helped me, so thanks very much to everyone and a big congratulations to all of you.matt
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Stress:
so under a lot of work yesterday I kept thinking about smoking....didn't give in but boy that nasty nic certainly knows how to strike when I'm most vulnerable....
DF as at 30/12/16
Wombling 2025: £87.12
NSD March: YTD: 35
Grocery spend challenge March £253.38/£285 £20/£70 Eating out
GC annual £449.80/£4500
Eating out budget: £55/£420
Extra cash earned 2025: £1950 -
I made a brief guest appearance on this thread in March, but caved after 4 days. Started again last Sunday, so on Day 5 now and really struggling. Cannot understand why, if according to the timeline, I am now nicotine free, I feel so bad. Very anxious, not sleeping v well and cannot control my blood sugar, which is a new symptom. I feel that I am a whisker away from caving again, just to feel OK again.
Want to give up, need to give up, but find it really difficult and don't know what to do.
Have tried another forum, but no-one has responded.
Mrs P P"Keep your dreams as clean as silver..." John Stewart (1939-2008)0 -
determined_new_ms wrote: »Stress:
so under a lot of work yesterday I kept thinking about smoking....didn't give in but boy that nasty nic certainly knows how to strike when I'm most vulnerable....
Well done! Anyway...............stress + smoking.............we know it doesn't really help, don't we DNM???Mrs_P_Pincher wrote: »I made a brief guest appearance on this thread in March, but caved after 4 days. Started again last Sunday, so on Day 5 now and really struggling. Cannot understand why, if according to the timeline, I am now nicotine free, I feel so bad. Very anxious, not sleeping v well and cannot control my blood sugar, which is a new symptom. I feel that I am a whisker away from caving again, just to feel OK again.
Want to give up, need to give up, but find it really difficult and don't know what to do.
Have tried another forum, but no-one has responded.
Mrs P PMrs. P!
Well done for starting to stop again and for coming on here. It can be sooo sooo hard and sooo sooo easy to give in.
Do you still have the e-mails I sent you? (At least I think I did!)
What you are dealing with right now is not nice, but what you will deal with if you don't stop will be much much worse.
( I have just come off the phone from talking to my aunt - my uncle is in hospital having 3 black toes amputated. He has a heart problem, has had numerous stents, is on dialysis 4 x a day, is diabetic, can hardly breathe...........he too found it hard to stop smoking)
Try to think of the positive long-term rather than the negative now.
I found it very helpful to pretend I was having a cigarette............taking a deep drag etc etc.
Keep drinking water...............keep busy............have an argument with Mr. Nick O'Teen and tell him you are NOT going to be falling for his scam!
http://www.whyquit.com/joel/Joel_03_21_blood_sugar.htmlNicotine Free since 01.08.2010 :j:j:j
Sealed Pot Challenge member 1097 2011 £1024.78 :T
I feel the two are connected0
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