The Giving Up Smoking Thread - Part 3

NickJW

Hi All

Day 29 of not smoking now. Still on the patches - I'm happy with them and they appear to be working. £180 saved so far! Going to a spin class this evening as well.

I didn't wear a patch on Sunday but I had the most horrendous sleep on Sunday night - only got about 3 hours sleep and was groggy and unproductive at work on Monday. I can't allow myself to get the sack just because I've stopped smoking so I've carried on with the patches. I'm going to do the course as it asks and gradually cut down the nicotine and try the lower nicotine patches before I go CT.

The support on this thread as a whole is amazing! Sue-UU - your posts are inspirational to us all.

I do find that I'm not wanting to come on here as much though because it's a bit stressful, and stress is the last thing you want when you're trying to quit. We're all stopping in different ways. I know I can't do CT but I have the upmost respect to those who are.

I also don't know much about e-cigs. I've got no desire to try them or learn much more about them (to be honest the description and pictures of them scared me!), but I can't pass judgement since I don't know what they are all about. To be perfectly honest if I came onto the thread and all I saw was vapes, dosages of this and that I would want to get out of here/reconsider stopping smoking if that's what it takes! Too complicated for my little head! :rotfl:

I reiterate that I don't know much about it though and I understand that it is an option for those who wish to quit smoking. The fact that we're all trying to stop is what matters most. Getting rid of the nicotine is important, but getting rid of the toxins associated with smoking is more important - and I find this with the patches also. The nicotine addition can gradually be weened of you.

Anyway - I'm not sure where I am going here - I seem to be rambling away! I don't see anything wrong with discussing e-cigs, since they are a legitimate, legal (think they are anyway) form of stopping smoking, but the technical terms like vaping scare me off a bit....

sandraroffey

i stopped smoking a long time ago - something like 30 years. i think cigs had just gone up to 3/6d a pack!!!!

and the only way to really give up smoking is to save all the money you would normally spend on cigs. you have to be really honest with yourself on this.......

every week (paid weekly then) when we got our money, we took out what WE would spend on cigs, and put it in a savings account and didnt touch it no matter what. (if you were still smoking and your roof needed repairs, you would still smoke, and find the money for the repairs another way, so dont touch that money), and that year we had 4 holidays; yes cheap, caravan long weekends/short breaks, but they were holidays we would never have afforded to do if we were still smoking.

within a few days i could smell (often from the other side of the road), someone who had smoked recently, and it was horrible. food tasted so much nicer and yes, i put on a few inches around the hips, but who cares?? being a non smoker was better, and i longed for someone to offer me a cig, just so i could say to them 'no thanks, i dont smoke'.

to all you people giving up/trying to give up, be brutally, brutally honest with yourself and work out just how much you spend on cigs in a year!!!! if you buy 20 a day, say so!! and dont forget the extra packs you buy on a night out. you may be surprised.

paidinchickens

Bad stuff

Another day of headaches, sicky and I feel really tired. I don't know if it is a bug or withdrawal.

Good stuff

Day 10 and still not had any "Nasty Nic"



I keep telling myself I am a recovering addict as the word ADDICT seems to make me more determined to stop.

crazymum well done on the fags and booze :eek: I am finding it hard enough with just the fags so hats off to you :T

PICx

spicyprawn

Well I hope you feel better soon! Ive been feeling sick the last couple of mornings, but gets better after having some dinner

spicyprawn

I am actually sat here pi***d off.

As stated before I am not very good at explaining, especially through text. This whole thing against Lotus Eater. What is the problem exactly? Not once have they shoved e cig in my face or said ' oh you don't need that book spicy, here, this e cig is what you really want.' If you don't care for e cigs fine, I don't, but that doesn't mean every time they offer their experience and advice to people who are interested I jump down their throat.

Sue has been a great support for me but if I had chosen e cigs as my way of stopping smoking then I am sure Lotus Eater would be my great support. If it wasn't for Sue I probably would have started smoking again, I have absolutely no support here(home), only from a smoking friend.

As for the welcoming comment Crazymum made; I didn't welcome anybody. You as far as I can see were only welcomed by 2 people. Does that then mean I need to go over and make my own thread for people who have no support and only used the allen carr book.

I apologise now as yes I will probably come by and regret some of what I have said, but most likely not. I actually feel quite happy to leave this thread myself, I have Sues pms to keep me going.

SPICY

jacci45

Hi all,

cannot believe Im starting my 3rd week as a non smoker, its just fab!!Operation all over and Dr said no surprises, it was what he thought it was but obviously they will test tumour but he seems sure it was benign. So glad its gone but was in agony for about 10 hrs last night...enough to make me cry in fact but a lot better now.

The good thing is that it was this health scare that turned me into a non smoker and I know I may have more difficult times in the future but it really has been quite straightforward,

Keep going everyone, smoking has got no good points at all.....we owe it to ourselves to stop.:D:D:D

crazymum_2

Please forgive me if I spoke out of turn before.

Sue - thankyou so much for all your help, I am thrilled to have made 8 days without cigarettes - and can assure you I will never go back to smoking. Off to see my Dad at the end of this month - probably for the last time but at least I wont be smoking - thankyou (it really does mean the world to me).

Good luck everyone with giving up :T , keep going and thankyou for your help I would never have done it on my own.

Sue-UU

Never in my wildest dreams did I think this thread would become such an unsettled and stressful place to be, especially as the need for people stopping smoking is anything but what this last page especially represents.

I feel exactly the same as Nick, e-cigs, vaping and so forth frighten me and, I'm sorry, but I really am not comfortable in this environment.

I have never, in all the time helping on here, witnessed or had any sort of confrontation like this until a certain American woman came here seeking trouble a few weeks ago; then Lotus came on here to tell his story about how he stopped using e-cigs and asked if I would send anyone who asked about them to his thread. I took the link (still have it specifically as he'd asked) and said I would happily give it to people asking. I couldn't be fairer than that. green1060 joined in to say something about e-cigs at one time and didn't come back on until Lotus-eater and I were having the current dispute. I have always explained how I feel about e-cigs, I'm sorry everyone, but I feel no different. Anyone looking back through this thread and the previous one will see all the posts relating to Erme who uses them and has done for months, I wasn't happy about it when she first said, but as she was a bit anti, I let her do her talking, but some of the pictures she has shown here have really frightened me. There are specific forums for all those who wish that choice - in fact I'm already being slated on at least one!

I too hate confrontation, but like crazymum and Spice, have to speak my mind for what I do and do not believe in.

I have epilepsy - uncontrolled complex partial seizures - which can strike at any time without any warning so the last thing I want or need is stress and I am not prepared to put my Husband or I through additional seizures than I already have because of this thread and those who wish to discuss here - something which I cannot handle.

If needs must, I shall speak to the Board Guides to seek their advice but would suggest, in light of all that has happened, to quite possibly start another thread, much the same as this, where I'd wish to express on the very 1st page that it would not be for anything to do with e-cigs!

In sadness, Sue.

spicyprawn

Sue-UU wrote: »

If needs must, I shall speak to the Board Guides to seek their advice but would suggest, in light of all that has happened, to quite possibly start another thread, much the same as this, where I'd wish to express on the very 1st page that it would not be for anything to do with e-cigs

if anything this is what I would do, with NO E CIGS in the thread title. Some people will just go to the last page and miss what ever you are going to write on your first page.

smileytiger

:eek::eek::eek:

OMG - i'm not around for a few days and what a lot has happened.

Firstly well done to all the new quitters who are still hanging in there:D

My twopenny (For what it's worth) everyone has the right to quit using whatever means they choose. I know Cameron seems like a dictator - but i'm pretty sure we're still in a democracy..lol

However - that does not mean that others not using or choosing that option have the right to say they are wrong.

Myself and many other have found Sue to be a true inspiration on our journeys & this thread (to me) would be meaningless without her words of wisdom & comfort.

If we need to subdivide into 2 threads then so be it - although i think it's very sad that it's happened like this

Anyways enough of the politics - 11 weeks & 1 day smoke free!!!!!:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j

hugs to all
Chrissie .xx