The Giving Up Smoking Thread - Part 3

Sue-UU

Hi Hattie and congratulations on your FIRST week free from fags!!!!!:T:T It's good to see you've rewarded your great achievement, you really haves deserved it as it's all your own work. Keep up the great work, Hattie and well done! Have a lovely weekend.

Sue x

topsyturphy

Hi everyone

this thread is so motivating. Managed to get through day2 ok. Not many cravings today which was good and soon passed. Took dog out for a good walk in the rain. Met a friend for coffee after lunch. Have kept myself reasonably busy all day. Still got a bit of a headache & dry throat but think this is normal.

Worked out even though I only stopped properly 2 days ago, I only had 12 since new year(which I already had) have not bought any since and have saved approx £25.

I am still only doing 1 day at a time, but this thread has helped me so much. I am hoping shortly to buy myself some running shoes as I used to love running at school, can take my dog with me.

Well done to everyone who is succeeding.

Mat_Lock

I bought a packet of cigarettes tonight.............


..............it's ok they were for my flatmate not me as I was in the shop when he called and wanted some.

My Silkquit tells me:

Smober time: 4D 29m 11s
Amount Saved: £14.71
Cigs not smoked: 40
Life Saved: 3h 20m

Happy times. Plus I came in under my calorie goal tonight and spent an hour down the gym !!!

Shame I have work tomorrow otherwise I'd take a well earned lie in !!

fletch3163

c4 years quit

Hello everyone

I pop in here sometimes to have a read at how you're all doing. As a fellow ex smoker (though in the eyes of critical illness cover I'm now deemed a NON smoker) I feel a kindred spirit.

I'd just like to wish you all well and let you know that this quitting malary is possible, and not hellish hard to keep up. Now I look back on it I found the first six months the toughest. I found "faking it" really helpful (squeezing a straw, dragging hard on it, inhaling and slowing, deliberately blowing out). Someone told me the relaxing deep breathing of smoking was missed as much as the actual smoke. I also found orange juice really helpful (vitamin c) too. Don't know what it did but it helped.

My meltdown came some 5 months in when I found myself in the car, crying my eyes out, willing myself NOT to go to Asda for fags!! I didn't and I think that was my turning point.

I didn't suffer any adverse health issues (weight notwithstanding) but my DH was put on an inhaler 2 months into his quit.

Am happy to say my 13 year old doesn't even remember us being smokers.

Good luck to you all

Azkaban_2

Good Evening All

Just a quickie to say: Superdrug have 'stop smoking' patches, mints, chewing gum..mostly at half price. I paid £6.29 for my weeks worth of patches, last week I paid nearly £15. Tesco have also got 'X' amount of most 'stop smoking' products as have Wilkins. Thought this might be of interest to those who need to top up their patches....

Hope you're all well

AZ xx

dundeedoll_2

topsyturphy wrote: »

Hi everyone

this thread is so motivating. Managed to get through day2 ok. Not many cravings today which was good and soon passed. Took dog out for a good walk in the rain. Met a friend for coffee after lunch. Have kept myself reasonably busy all day. Still got a bit of a headache & dry throat but think this is normal.

Worked out even though I only stopped properly 2 days ago, I only had 12 since new year(which I already had) have not bought any since and have saved approx £25.

I am still only doing 1 day at a time, but this thread has helped me so much. I am hoping shortly to buy myself some running shoes as I used to love running at school, can take my dog with me.

Well done to everyone who is succeeding.

Sounds like this stopping smoking lark is really going to change your life.................as well as prolong it :rotfl:

Mat_Lock

Haha I work for superdrug and I didn't even know about those offers.

Nym_Mcfroglet

topsyturphy wrote: »

Hi everyone

this thread is so motivating. Managed to get through day2 ok. Not many cravings today which was good and soon passed. Took dog out for a good walk in the rain. Met a friend for coffee after lunch. Have kept myself reasonably busy all day. Still got a bit of a headache & dry throat but think this is normal.

It is normal yeah, when the nic leaves your system your body has to readjust to breathing proper air in again. It'll thank you in no time! I had headaches and sore throats and all sorts, but I've quit since April and *touch wood* I've only had mild sniffles all winter. And these lot are so supportive it's great. They're all stars

Worked out even though I only stopped properly 2 days ago, I only had 12 since new year(which I already had) have not bought any since and have saved approx £25.

Amazing isn't it! I used to smoke duty free tobacco so tended to save around a tenner a week. Now I use that to go Lindy Hopping and Charlestoning twice a week instead. So much more fun than trying to look like a chimney and paying for the privilege!

I am still only doing 1 day at a time, but this thread has helped me so much. I am hoping shortly to buy myself some running shoes as I used to love running at school, can take my dog with me.

Well done to everyone who is succeeding.

Sounds like a great plan. A few on here go running and I may take it up again when I move back into the suburbs (I live in a city centre apartment at the moment). The dog will adore that too, you'll be his God! Well done to you too, you're doing amazingly well

Nym_Mcfroglet

Azkaban wrote: »

Good Evening All

Just a quickie to say: Superdrug have 'stop smoking' patches, mints, chewing gum..mostly at half price. I paid £6.29 for my weeks worth of patches, last week I paid nearly £15. Tesco have also got 'X' amount of most 'stop smoking' products as have Wilkins. Thought this might be of interest to those who need to top up their patches....

Hope you're all well

AZ xx

When I first started to quit I saw an offer like this in Boots, I went in over three days and cleared the shelves (Haha) so instead of paying more for patches than I would have for tobacco I got them for about £6.50. Resulto! And I got Advantage points too

splishsplash

Evening everyone ,

It's great to see so many people choosing to have a nicotine-free 2011. I wish everyone the very best of luck - you can do this, and the 'Giving Up Smoking' threads are a huge source of inspiration and support to all former smokers. I still dip into the two previous threads from time to time, as well as the whyquit sites - links in dundeedoll's post.

A big Thank You again to Sue UU, Larmy16, dundeedoll, jammydodger, rmlc and all the others who give such courage and good advice to all.

I used Champix to quit. I had resigned myself to smoking forever more, but I thought they were like a magic wand - the desire was no longer there.
I still found I had a couple of times in the day when I would really, really have loved to light up - for the action, not the nicotine. The strongest yearning was just after work, but that was as much hunger for food as for nicotine. That ravenous feeling has only properly abated in the past month. I dealt with it initially by eating, lots of fruit and ice-pops, later by prepping dinner the night before so I could have it ready within 20 minutes of walking in the door.

Now the abnormal hunger has gone, so I'm concentrating on the excess poundage accumulated thanks to the cheese and biscuits, middle age, Christmas and the recent discovery of 'cake in a cup' .

Onwards and upwards for 2011... but not outward any more!