The Giving Up Smoking Thread - Part 3

Maz

Haven't started my stop journey (yet), is it OK if I ask for a bit of advice?

First of all, what a fantastic, supportive and helpful thread this is! I know I'll be visiting often, if not every day.

I'd like to ask a question about the blood sugar level scenario. Would glucose tablets be OK to use in place of juice? I really don't like fruit juice so if glucose tablets are a substitute and keep me from stuffing sweets and other rubbish down me that'd be a real help to me.

I stopped smoking for 31/2 years and put on about 2 stones in weight. I'm already about a stone overweight so want to try and avoid any more weight gain if possible!

Thanks peeps.

determined_new_ms

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 P

hey Mrs P, welcome back good on you! :T ok in response to your question I think that you do have to ride the storm a little initially. I have found on this (and previous quits) that at the start I went through a very insecure period for about a week - read through the previous posts & you will see it there in its full glory - but I put it down to the addiction trying every trick in the book to keep me addicted. It does go honestly, you just need to devise some distraction techniques - going for walks, knitting, spring cleaning every room in the house, the car, the garden, I read through this & previous threads to get courage & inspiration from others & posting on here and getting some distraction from others. I promise that feeling doesn't last that long Good luck you can totally do this

Maz wrote: »

Haven't started my stop journey (yet), is it OK if I ask for a bit of advice?

First of all, what a fantastic, supportive and helpful thread this is! I know I'll be visiting often, if not every day.

I'd like to ask a question about the blood sugar level scenario. Would glucose tablets be OK to use in place of juice? I really don't like fruit juice so if glucose tablets are a substitute and keep me from stuffing sweets and other rubbish down me that'd be a real help to me.

I stopped smoking for 31/2 years and put on about 2 stones in weight. I'm already about a stone overweight so want to try and avoid any more weight gain if possible!

Thanks peeps.

arrrgggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh the weight gain I can't offer words of advice because I caved at the yummy foods & have put a couple of stone on! However there are some people on the thread who have given up & lost weight at the same time, read through previous posts. Just make sure you drink plenty of water, eat fruit get exercise daily & you should be ok. I have read that ppl who have glucose tablets have a higher success rate & the added calories are less than sweets or crisps.

I'm heading to WW next week to lose the weight, being a little over weight is better than the health risks attached to smoking

Maz

Thanks for your reply, much appreciated. I'm trying to get my armoury together before the Big Day and glucose tablets look like being the best choice for me for maintaining the ol' blood sugar levels.

I don't have a sweet tooth, prefer savoury stuff my big downfall is salted peanuts! Last time I stopped, I seemed to eat them by the bucketload :eek: No wonder I piled on the weight! At least I know what to avoid this time!

dundeedoll_2

Maz wrote: »

Haven't started my stop journey (yet), is it OK if I ask for a bit of advice?

First of all, what a fantastic, supportive and helpful thread this is! I know I'll be visiting often, if not every day.

I'd like to ask a question about the blood sugar level scenario. Would glucose tablets be OK to use in place of juice? I really don't like fruit juice so if glucose tablets are a substitute and keep me from stuffing sweets and other rubbish down me that'd be a real help to me.

I stopped smoking for 31/2 years and put on about 2 stones in weight. I'm already about a stone overweight so want to try and avoid any more weight gain if possible!

Thanks peeps.

Maz wrote: »

Thanks for your reply, much appreciated. I'm trying to get my armoury together before the Big Day and glucose tablets look like being the best choice for me for maintaining the ol' blood sugar levels.

I don't have a sweet tooth, prefer savoury stuff my big downfall is salted peanuts! Last time I stopped, I seemed to eat them by the bucketload :eek: No wonder I piled on the weight! At least I know what to avoid this time!

Maz

Am meeting a friend at 2pm, so in a rush, but thought this may be helpful.
You don't actually need the glucose tabs as such - just proper food! A lot of people are used to skipping meals and having a ciggie, so when they stop smoking they may not eat enough food (of the right sort )

Hope it helps..................fab advice from DNM..........as always!

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/features/article1788143.ece

Triciaxx

:hello: to fold friends. It's so heartening to get the posts from peeps who have been free for over a year - that's the feedback we need. So thanks to Larmy and Catherine who's stories I followed on old threads when I was first giving up.

:hello: to all you new folks as well. It is hard at first and I don't think anyone should go into this thinking that it isn't. But it does get better rather quickly. For me, I've had no Allen Carr 'moment', it's been more a gradual fading of urges to smoke. I've come to the conclusion that it may take a few years before I can truly say I have no temptation - but one slight pang every couple of weeks is something I can deal with.

New folks, read all through the thread and previous ones. We're all different and you will find little gems that speak to you in the struggles of others.

Does anyone know how Sue is? Good wishes to her if she is reading this.

janet43

HI this is my first post on here but i have been reading for a while and well done all.
I stopped smoking on the 17th march using patches. This is my 3rd attempt and hopefully my final quit.
I have been on 21mg for 4 weeks and now on 14mg. I dont think about smoking everyday now but when i do they make me very down and i wonder if i really want to give up which i do and i keep telling myself this. I really hate fighting with myself but i will not go back. I feel that i am missing something in my life and how can i be happy again which i think is just my mind playing tricks on me. Thank you for reading
janet xxx

determined_new_ms

janet43 wrote: »

HI this is my first post on here but i have been reading for a while and well done all.
I stopped smoking on the 17th march using patches. This is my 3rd attempt and hopefully my final quit.
I have been on 21mg for 4 weeks and now on 14mg. I dont think about smoking everyday now but when i do they make me very down and i wonder if i really want to give up which i do and i keep telling myself this. I really hate fighting with myself but i will not go back. I feel that i am missing something in my life and how can i be happy again which i think is just my mind playing tricks on me. Thank you for reading
janet xxx

Hi Janet, wow 45 days is fantastic :j:j:j Good for you! Yup the internal dialogue I remember it well :mad: but it does get better, I absolutely promise stick with it. At the beginning of feb (8tha ctually) so it must have been around the 40ish day I caved & had a sneaky cig - put it down to stress, but really it was old nic calling me back - and it didn't offer me anything other than having to fight the cravings again for a couple of weeks. It won't be long now till you start to see how fabulous it is without smoking & how you don't need to have one, and rather than missing out on something you are gaining a tremendous amount x

missymoo69

Hi I stopped either on the 11th or 18th April, I can't actually remember but I am on my third week of patches.

I am 33 and started wheni was 18, stopped whe trying, pregnant and breast feeding my babis, but as soon as I stopped feeding iw anted my body back sostarted to smoke again. I have had many failed atempts in the past so m hubby ( who a, got me soking n the first pace and b, stopped 4 years ago) wasn't too impressed when I said I was stopping.

I was grumpy the first week and a half which my poor husband and kids suffered, bu I am throught the oter side and can actually say I have NOT fancied one at all!!

I am so proud of myself, althought I have little squares on my legs from where I alternate the patches.

This time I will finish the whole course of patches, but I have no desire to smoke I think the time needs ot be right for you, it was for me

Keep going

missymoo69

janet43 wrote: »

HI this is my first post on here but i have been reading for a while and well done all.
I stopped smoking on the 17th march using patches. This is my 3rd attempt and hopefully my final quit.
I have been on 21mg for 4 weeks and now on 14mg. I dont think about smoking everyday now but when i do they make me very down and i wonder if i really want to give up which i do and i keep telling myself this. I really hate fighting with myself but i will not go back. I feel that i am missing something in my life and how can i be happy again which i think is just my mind playing tricks on me. Thank you for reading
janet xxx

janet all you ar missing is a little paer thing in your fingers that makes you smell and feel like a lepper in public.

Your doing good keep up the great work

:j

Mat_Lock

4 months today for me !! Definitely well over it all now !! Some slight urges while I was sat in a bar on the beach in Peru the other day but other than that, nothing at all. Think I am finally fully quit now !! Woohoo !!

Good luck to all those in the early stages of quitting, keep up the good work and don't faulter, the rewards are amazing !!