The Giving Up Smoking Thread - Part 3

Kiwisaver_2

splishsplash wrote: »

Probably the biggest change for me is how much more I fit into my day - making time to stop my life to feed my nicotine addiction wasted SO much time! Every day I am thankful that I am free and clean of the nasty addiction! I like feeling 'clean'.

SilkQuit stats:
Quit Time: One year, five months, three weeks, two days, 23 hours, 45 minutes and 42 seconds.
16289 cigarettes not smoked,
saving €7,032.86.

Brilliant update Splishsplash, I am trying to imagine the size of that pile of fags as a bonfire. Now imagine striking a match and setting light to 7,000 Euro worth of cigs all in one go. Wow!! :eek:

There are just so many inspirational and helpful folks on MSE, this really is life-changing stuff in the making.

Just past a year on for me and I'm just beginning to deal with the weight gain and fitness.

UnderPressure

splishsplash wrote: »

Well done to everyone starting on the nicotine-free road! It's the best thing you can ever do for yourself imho. As usual, thanks to Sue-UU and those who have given their time so unstintingly over the years to ensure that this thread is supportive and nurturing to those trying to quit. I wish you well Sue, and I hope to see you back on the thread soon.

I quit Aug 2010 and started exercising to prevent too much weightgain. My walk is a little over three and a half miles long. It starts on the level, then climbs uphill incrementally, until it's an actual steep hillwalk for a couple of hundred metres before the halfway mark. I found I had to stop very often to keep between 80 - 90% of my target heart rate when I first started. It took me approx 1.5 hours to complete it initially, due to all the stops and allowing my heart rate to come within safe limits. Yesterday it took me an hour exactly, with one stop for a pulse check at the top, and that was just 80% THR:j.

My resting heart rate was 80-90bpm when I smoked, due to the nicotine in my system, sometimes higher. Right now it's 60bpm (and I've just had a big mug of coffee).

My blood pressure was high (the real reason I quit). It was very high, in truth. That's also the reason for the extra exercise. I'm not going to check it yet though. I want to be sure I'm doing everything I can to make it right naturally, and for all boxes to be ticked, I have to tackle the diet side of things, which I am now doing in earnest. So I'll report back on that in a couple of months!

Probably the biggest change for me is how much more I fit into my day - making time to stop my life to feed my nicotine addiction wasted SO much time! Every day I am thankful that I am free and clean of the nasty addiction! I like feeling 'clean'.

SilkQuit stats:
Quit Time: One year, five months, three weeks, two days, 23 hours, 45 minutes and 42 seconds.
16289 cigarettes not smoked,
saving €7,032.86.
Life saved: 8 weeks, 13 hours, 25 minutes.

A great update and well done to you I cannot wait till I am at this stage, you seem to have it all worked out perfectly, I love the idea of the heart monitor think I might have a loo at buying one of these myself.

Missed my champix update yesterday so here it is a little late.

Champix Day 7 (yesterday)

Got up late again!!! SO no time for usual morning routine, ended up having my first cigarette about 10:30ish, really pleased with this, this alone is a big improvement for me, I have decided to make this my new daily routine from now on, no smoking until home from the school run and organised my day, it is not hard at all so may as well
Not feeling as tired today and my mood has lifted a little as well, by 9pm I was absolutely knackered though, the pills seems to be having an opposite effect on me, a lot of people report insomnia as a side effect whereas for me they seem to be making me tired!
Today is my last day on the half dose, tomorrow (today lol I am a day late) I begin the full strength dose, 1mg in a morning and 1mg at night. I am a little apprehensive about this, so far I seem to have been lucky and not really had any side effects at all so a bit worried they will all come in one go when the dose increases, we will see.
As said no side effects worth noting so far a very positive experience and looking forward to the challenge of being smoke free, fingers crossed next week some time


I have just taken my first 1mg tablet, today is day 8 so I will post day 8 later tonight.

Good luck quitters keep up the good work :beer:

Erme

Well done to all the quitters - long and short

You will find you hate the smell of smoke...

I had the weirdest thing this am...I was half asleep/half awake (after a very long sleep) and like dreamt I found 1/2 oz of tobacco (or was it an oz) and like smoked one...

So promptly got up and reached for e-cig. Am now so confident beginning to get rid of smoking stuff like lighters etc and papers. Really love my e-cig

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choille

Well done all. Posted a long post but it vanished which is annoying to say the least.

Splish Splash - good for you. Ireally need to up my excercise after the Winter sloth as I have put weight on, b. ut certainly feel much fitter two years down the line than I did when puffing.

Underpressure - you're doing really well. Good to keep a diary of it. You'll soon be stubbing out that last cig, saving the money - enjoying being smoke free.

Erme

Och I've had that...so annoying ...

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oldreekie

2 years

!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you

oldreekie

Wow, so many inspirational posts. Well done to all.

6 months, 1 year, 1.5 years ...2 years may seem an awful long time if you are just starting off but keep quitting. We have all been through the early stages of quitting and survived with our sanity in tact.............well, I believe, so.:D

Old Chinese Proverb. It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backwards.

oldreekie

=booboo=

Congratualtions OLDREEKIE, happy quitday! - Thats some milestone..

Felt the annual marker deserved its own name.. hopefully itll catch on! lol

jacci45

3 weeks today, cant believe it!!

keep going all!!

choille

:T:beer:Old Reekie:T:beer:

Brilliant - I'm a few days behind you, but you lead the way.

Many thanks for all your wonderful help.