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The Giving Up Smoking Thread - Part 3

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  • Ok so Im new and no doubt have no influence here but sometimes from an outside view it just looks to me like some of you just need your legs slapped and made to sit in a room together to discuss the real purpose of this thread. We all in one way or another have one goal - to quit the dreaded weed. Its not easy for the majority whatever route is taken but surely the person should be supported for the ultimate goal. Funnily enough I was talking to my nurse at the GP surgery and she claimed I could not stop without Champix which to me was wrong advice for me but I listened smiled and kept my own resolve in mind which is to stop without anything other than a lot of support from my friends. If I fail I will stick my hand in the air and confess but guess what - failure is not an option for me :D This time its for real ( I can feel a song coming on :rotfl:)

    anyway thats my tuppence worth so please lets just get on with the job of stopping.
    14 days to go for me and already starting to challenge my mindset thanks to having made this major decision.

    Sorry again but thats my view
    NTC
    29th Feb Quit Day :j
  • That would be me not explaining very well what I mean.:o

    E cigs to me are for when you can't have a fag at work or on a plane and not really giving up just as my friend with her joints who was not really giving up.

    Although this is not the case for everyone.

    I was recommended to come here for support but all I can see is people waiting to argue, not what I thought it would be :(

    I think I am in less danger of having a fag by staying off here and keeping my stress levels down.

    For me, I looked into them and thought they might help in the way you first said - i.e. at times that I couldn't smoke. I never thought I could give up as I've tried so many times. Once I tried one, it was just easy not to smoke cigarettes at all so that's how I now see it. It's enabled me to give up smoking and will probably save me from dying.

    Please don't leave the thread, PIC, just because a remark you made was taken out of context. We're all supporting each other to give up smoking, whatever way we can. I've got my own personal views on some other methods but I know they work for some so I've never said anything, what didn't work for me will work like a dream for someone else, that's a given. All that's important is that we improve our chances of living a longer and healthy life.
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  • choille
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    edited 16 February 2012 at 9:47PM
    Needstochange-funnily enough my GP perscribed me Champix & when I eventually got to see a cessation nurse after a fight to see one - she said I needn't have been perscribed the Champix as she reckoned I had the right mindset to stop without it. I stopped the Champix early as I was having one or two side effects so I reduced the dosage over 4 days & found I managed fine. I just had to bear in mind that the pangs for a cig didn't last long - a couple of minutes at the most & were perfectly bearable. It was just a matter of being aware of how we trick ourselves into being 'addicted' when really we are grownups & capable of doing without & it's not really that hard. We talk it up, make it into a huge, looming thing, when really it is just something that we can decide not to do anymore.
  • geneva
    geneva Posts: 24 Forumite
    Wishing you well Needstochange . . . so much of giving up anything is being in the right place mentally and making a whole hearted commitment to that change.

    Good Luck!
  • Evening all :)

    Day 14 Champix

    Been a busy day again today, not physically more on a mental level, I am currently studying as well as everything else at degree level so have been "bashing the books" today :) Still smoking as normal although less than usual, still taste terrible, still smoking purely out of habit rather than any need to.
    The children go back to school on Monday so unless something changes between now and then this is going to ne my day for quitting! Monday 20th February 2012. Probably a day that will mean nothing to most people but to me it will mark the end of an era and the start of a whole new one.
    No side affects worth mentioning, the tiredness seems to be getting a bit better now, in fact last night I had a positively restless night, I must have woke up about 5 times at least, will see how tonight's sleep goes.

    Good luck to all of you keep up the good work :)
    "You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure"
    Sir Winston Churchill
  • choille
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    Underpressure - You sound in the right frame of mind & it's good that the kids will be back at school rather than still on hols - think that'll be more sensible. Monday's a good day. Hope everything continues well & you keep us up to date on your journey please.
    In a way I think I had it easy as I live in the middle of nowhere & the nearest shop is a mile walk away. I did throw all my stuff, cigs, tabacco, cig papers, filters..etc all went in the wood burner after I'd smoked my very last cig on the Monday night - in they went. I couldn't afford to have the tempatation of them lying around the place.
  • Erme
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    geneva wrote: »
    Well done to everyone who is doing so well, in their chosen method of not smoking tobacco cigarettes . . .

    It's what works for you and we're all evangelical about what works for us . . . I smoked for 36 years, was on 40/50 cigs a day and spending an eye watering £70 a week on them.

    Almost 2 years now, a smoke free zone thanks to ecigs . . .

    I think that's the whole issue here. I think you've really hit the nail on the head geneva. Everyone on here has such strong views and is very evangelical about their method of quitting the weed.

    I just got distressed when someone decided to report e-cig info links (which do no more harm IMHO than posting diet sites for everyone to see when they could be picked up by folk recovering/enduring eating disorders) to the mods and got them deleted. Now the diet sites have like never been deleted (they're not on this thread. On other equally evangelical threads though)...to me that's wrong....Simply wrong....

    And I view MSE with a half cynical eye having seen both the good and bad in my time on here. I don't envy the job of the mods. Not least cos things can so easily get 'lost in translation' online...

    Hope that clarifies my stance...

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  • Well done, smileytiger! Did we know about the tap dancing??? I'm sure that I would have remembered. Fantastic images you are "drawing" there, of you tapping on the kitchen floor.:D


    You have every right to be proud of yourself, CKhalvashi. A room of smokers is a big test! Please could you put you method of quitting and time as a non-smoker in the title line?

    May I remind everyone of this, please? It's a memory problem. You will understand one day.:)

    Underpressure, I will be thinking of you on Monday. Please stay in touch with us. I am going away for a couple of days but I'm sure someone will be around to share the first step.:T

    oldreekie
    I am a non-smoker :j last cigarette 10th February 2010
  • oldreekie wrote: »
    Well done, smileytiger! Did we know about the tap dancing??? I'm sure that I would have remembered. Fantastic images you are "drawing" there, of you tapping on the kitchen floor.:D

    oldreekie


    It's a new hobby - the one dance i've always wanted to do. I regularly do theatre/dance/pantomime etc - but have never had any proper lessons. I love to sing which is one of the reasons i quit the fags - wasn't doing my voice any favours (that and my advancing years;)).
    So now i'm having weekly lessons for less than a packet of cigs and absolutley loving it - friends think i'm bonkers - but do i care - nah:D

    Keep up the good work guys
    Hugs
    Chrissie .xx
  • Champix Day 15

    Afternoon All :)
    Firstly I just want to say thank you everyone who has replied to my posts and offered pearls of wisdom, I do appreciate it :)
    Day 15 of my journey today, it has been a quiet day today usual Friday activities, out and about this morning, sat around all afternoon catching up on some reading. Though I was smoking as usual but it occurred to me this morning in the supermarket that I had not bought tobacco for 2 days, usually I buy 12.5g every day without fail but yesterday I did not need any and today I did not need any so I have seriously cut down and not even really noticed :D This left me with a nice warm feeling and a smile on my face :)
    Restless night again last night, was a little more settled than the night before but still not unbroken sleep, the tiredness during the day has all but gone now which I am pleased about. None of the other reported side affects such as nausea etc etc guess I have been lucky :)
    I am actually looking forward to Monday now, I know it is going to be a challenge even with these "miracle pills" but somehow, this time, it feels different, I feel in a completely different frame of mind about the whole thing before I have always felt really negative about quitting, this time I feel positive and am looking forward to leaving this habit behind once and for all.
    The only thing I am a little worried about is the habit side of it, as in holding the cig and smoking it with a coffee, yes I also have a huuuuuuuuuuugggggggeeeeeeeee coffee addiction and generally with my latte ha ha ha seriously it is all drink with triple espresso's in, spent a fortune a couple of years ago on my own machine at home, I now make better coffee than Starbucks :) anyway I digress generally with me brew I have a cig, I am not sure how to find a replacement for this or if I should even bother trying to, guess I will just have to see how it goes on Monday, I thought of maybe having a pencil or something I could chew on, any advice on this more than welcome.
    Well that is about it for the moment, I will keep posting over the weekend in the meantime keep up the good work quitters and have a great weekend :beer:
    "You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure"
    Sir Winston Churchill
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