The Giving Up Smoking Thread - Part 3

alibob_1986

feeling very stressed now. I am sleep deprived cos the wind kept me up til 3 this morning (yawn!) and small one is being a menace, she is also tired but too late for a nap, too early for bed.
On the plus side, today I am doing some little bits around the house. I have had enough of my neighbours (they really are negihbours from hell0 so have decided that it's time I found somewhere else to live. They disrupt our daily lives ALL the time, shouting, playing loud music, morning noon and night...gah they're just awful. If I quit smoking I will be 100+ better off a month. If I put 60/70/80 of that towards more rent, I can get out of this place!!! If that's not incentive, I don't know what is to be honest So anyways, I have been removing marker pen sains from my carpet and walls so i can get my deposit back (hairspray shifts itt, that's my discovery of the day!) Also hired a carpet cleaner, which has made the carpets come up lovely but it's hard work and I have most definitely hit a slump now!!! Absolutely cannot wait for a bath and a chill out tonight...and loving that I won't have to get up and sit in the doorway or stand outside freezing my bits off just to get my fix!

Farzackerly

Well, this is a month on from the cut-down commencement. To re-cap, I had been smoking 50 rollups a day for the past several years. As soon as I started using patches my consumption dropped and I was stabilised on 15~20 rollups /day while using a 25mg patch and since New Year's Day I've been making a serious effort to reduce it further. No point in coasting along if the aim is to quit, right?
So, for the past few days I've been putting off smoking in the morning and only caving in when I really felt the pressure - yesterday, for example, I had my first fag of the day at 3.30pm, another one at 7pm, the third at 1am and one at 1.30am before going to bed. Four fags! I surprised myself.
Today hasn't been as good - I didn't have a great kip and my determination and resolution isn't as strong when I'm tired, so I've had a few, but even so, it's a mere fraction of what I was used to.
My tobacco tin is nearly empty and do you know what? It doesn't bother me at all - previously I'd be making tracks for the village shop as a matter of urgency; but now, I don't care. If it runs out I know I can go for many hours without and if I really, really have to, there's a pack of ready-mades lying in a drawer that I can fall back on - but I don't think I will.
I'm feeling the benefits already - this week's fag money has been spent on plumbing fittings for the building work I'm doing on my house and my breathing is better, without a doubt.
Tobacco companies? I spit on them. :mad:

Fundamental_2

Hi all and welcome to the newbies (even tho I am one myself )

Just a quick question please- I think I remember someone mentioning a quit calculator to download. I have found one but that only starts when I click it after downloading- I need one that will work out money saving/cigs missed/life saved since I quit 9 weeks ago- does one exist that will do that?

Thanks in advance and power to all those getting free.

FDM

alibob_1986

Fundamental wrote: »

Hi all and welcome to the newbies (even tho I am one myself )

Just a quick question please- I think I remember someone mentioning a quit calculator to download. I have found one but that only starts when I click it after downloading- I need one that will work out money saving/cigs missed/life saved since I quit 9 weeks ago- does one exist that will do that?

Thanks in advance and power to all those getting free.

FDM

i think, although could be wrong, the nhs one can have the settings altered to reflect an earlier quit date! hth

RainbowDreamer

I have an app on my Android phone that counts the time I've quit and works out the cost etc. Not sure if its available on the pc, but they have a Facebook page. It's called quitnow.
Day 4 is almost over and the dreaded cough has started. Hoping it lasts no more than a few days?

Sue-UU

Here you are FDM and anyone else who would like it as it counts almost everything!

Sorry folks, forgot to put it on http://www.silkquit.org/stop-smoking/quit-meter.aspx

Heres to good stats folk! :grinheart

Sue-UU

Brilliant news Viv!! :T:T:T

I love your posts, Davey, always so positive with a terrific love for the future and money to buy things you need as well as having some aside for rainy days. I hope you both enjoyed the festive season.

Sue x

Tired and stressed you may well be, Ali, but I love the fact that you're not sinking, if anything you're pushing ahead to help you both move quick!!! Wonderful news that, keep your cool and one day you'll be free from the undesirables...they sound like fags to me - horrible!! :mad:

Very well done indeed, Farzackerly!!!! :T You've made a fantastic start and from here on I wish you all the very best to quit. Amazing what we're capable of without knowing it before. Keep talking to us.

Here it is again, FDM, just in case you miss it up there.

http://www.silkquit.org/stop-smoking/quit-meter.aspx

All very good wishes to all those stopping/quitting, you're doing something so very worthwhile.

Sue x

Fundamental_2

Hi all

Thanks Sue (a star as always). Here are my stats for now:

Two months, two days, 3 hours, 51 minutes and 14 seconds. 947 cigarettes not smoked, saving £315.01. Life saved: 3 days, 6 hours, 55 minutes.

Wow- 947 cigs not smoked- that's an awful lot when I see it like that- just wow! And 3 more days to spend with my daughters- a lovely bonus.

Anyway. I realised earlier that I hadn't thought about smoking once today (until I realised that is!) and it struck me that that was another important thing to celebrate; it wasn't even that I craved a cig- it was just an email about this thread subscription. When one first gives up cigs are constantly on your mind 24/7; but as time progresses they cease to be at the forefront of your mind; you just kind of 'get on with things' without the cigs as things still need dealing with day to day.

So I hope that is some encouragement for those just getting free- the concentration on smoking does subside and you'll find that the thoughts of cigs just melt into the background until they drift over the horizon and can no longer be seen.......

Good luck all

FDM

webitha

well its day 2 and my throat is sore and i have started a nasty cough feeling a bit lethargic
only had 1 craving yesterday so i peeled a grape and ate it, by the time i had finished 1 grape the craving had gone

am drinking more water and using the loo a lot too lol

Erme

RainbowDreamer wrote: »

I have an app on my Android phone that counts the time I've quit and works out the cost etc. Not sure if its available on the pc, but they have a Facebook page. It's called quitnow.
Day 4 is almost over and the dreaded cough has started. Hoping it lasts no more than a few days?

I actually didn't get the dreaded cough for about a month :eek:...

Yeah I have an android app as can't get the silk quit meter to work on my Mac (think Wine is outdated).... So yeah..

Also have a simple e-liquid calculator for like android - free again...Doesn't do all the complicated 101 flavourings but does the basics (Nic/ml, 1 flavouring and glycerine)

webitha wrote: »

well its day 2 and my throat is sore and i have started a nasty cough feeling a bit lethargic
only had 1 craving yesterday so i peeled a grape and ate it, by the time i had finished 1 grape the craving had gone

am drinking more water and using the loo a lot too lol

Yeah that's good. Water really helps :T

Have a good day folks...WE CAN DO THIS!!!

E