The Giving Up Smoking Thread - Part 3

Triangle

Hi

I just wanted to say thank you to the support I received from this thread back in September/October when I was really struggling to give up cigarettes. My first attempt - to give up by reading Allan Carr - failed but shortly after I started the patches, having been a smoker for 9 years and on about 30 a day. And very shortly after that, I found out I was I pregnant :):)

So today it is excatly 4 months of being smoke free :j:jand to top it off, I have a healthly little boy bump growing very nicely indeed :j:j

Thank you again, especially to Sue who was so very helpful

T

choille

Smiley Tiger - you're doing really well & good for you having fun with the singing all dancing hobbies. It's good to give yourself a treat as you so deserve it. What healthy habits too.

Underpressure - I too am a coffee head - drink far too much of the stuff. I was concerned about it but didn't stop the coffee & still drink as much. I think it would of been too hard for me giving up both drugs at once.
Many years ago I stopped for a while & stopped coffee at the same time & boy did I have some strange side effects/withdrawal syptoms which I didn't get this time round - maybe just me.
One thing I did find I had to stop was being around alcohol & smokers for a while as I felt I had to have a few weeks under my belt before facing that hurdle. Before each new situation I would really have a good think about scenarios - prepare myself mentally before the encounter - you have to be aware & in the here & now when coming off the nicotine.

All the best - you're doing great.

choille

Triangle - hello, what a lovely story. Great stuff.

That's really lovely & what a great decision you took when you decided to stop. You couldn't give your baby a better gift.

All the very best to you both.

Money_maker

Still not smoking :jalthough I still get 'holes' in the day where I need something so usually end up having another coffee! I feel I am more positive at the moment although I think my family are getting a bit fed up. PMT as well at the mo so my best advice to them is 'duck'

Had a good evening in the week with my friend. She has joined one of these diet clubs and tbh, I think I can live easier without nicotine than without lots of bakery, cheese and chocolate!

Kids back to school and preschool next week so will take another look at the fitness book/dvd. Also want to do a bit of a deepclean to shift the yukky nicotine from my house.

Good luck to all in their smoke free lives. Encouraging to get successful peeps come back on here but I tend to look up their quitting posts and end up spending ages reading more of the older threads.

choille

You're doing really well Money maker. I really felt like I could run amok with an axe at points when I first stopped the nicotine, but it does ease off - or at least I think so.........my OH may not agree! No, sure he does.

I think you can really smell the stale acrid smoke on stuff - curtains etc until you wash them. I kept finding the smell on something I hadn't worn for a while - like a coat & it makes you realise how you smelt when you smoked. It's quite a shock.

All the best.

smileytiger

choille wrote: »

I think you can really smell the stale acrid smoke on stuff - curtains etc until you wash them. I kept finding the smell on something I hadn't worn for a while - like a coat & it makes you realise how you smelt when you smoked. It's quite a shock.

All the best.

was at a friends earlier & one of our gang came in (she's the only one who now smokes!) and i just couldn't bear the smell - it's actually quite revolting to think that's how other people must have thought about you. Am sharing a room with her soon on our girlie weekend away & although i love her dearly i think i may end up constantly spraying her with something nice:rotfl:

hugs
Chrissie .xx

UnderPressure

smileytiger wrote: »

was at a friends earlier & one of our gang came in (she's the only one who now smokes!) and i just couldn't bear the smell - it's actually quite revolting to think that's how other people must have thought about you. Am sharing a room with her soon on our girlie weekend away & although i love her dearly i think i may end up constantly spraying her with something nice:rotfl:

hugs
Chrissie .xx

I think that might be a little harsh if I am being honest for a moment...............

It is her choice to smoke as it was yours, it is great that you now have quit the habit but did anyone ever spray nice smelling things on you and make you feel as though you smelled when you were smoking? Now you are a non smoker you need to learnt to be tolerant as people were with you, it is great you no longer smoke but there was a time not so long ago you smelled exactly the same as this friend of yours, people who did not smoke were tolerant of this around you, you now need to extend the same tolerance to your friend.

Making her feel as though she is doing something wrong and then making her feel as though she stinks is probably the quickest way to make her an ex friend.

I hope you do not mind me poking my nose in I was just a little concerned at the tone of your post, either way I hope you have a great weekend and well done for quitting, this time Monday I too will be a member of your club and I cannot wait

crazymum_2

Well done everyone for staying smoke free :T

In a weeks time I'm off to Tenerife with my children to see my Dad. Probably the last time the children will see him - a good lesson why not to smoke. He is in the latter stages of emphysema and has been on oxygen for some time now - a smoker for most of his life.
A fit and healthy man who got hit with this terrible terrible disease some years after giving up the smokes - now he can hardly walk across a room without pausing for breath.
Moved to Tenerife because he can't bear the winters here anymore - he gets so cold and simply cannot move around to get warm. Breaks my heart.

Sue - you are amazing and you give up your time to help people beat this horrible addiction, you are quite wonderful. I'm glad to see you moving yourself away from this thread when the bickering begins - you must look after you too xxx

Choille - well done you :T standing tall and stepping in - thankyou for bringing strength, encouragement and order to the thread.

This week has been much easier for me than the last.....as days go by the nicotene pangs are fewer and fewer.

54 days alcohol free
24 days nicotene free

feeling very very proud and rebuilding my life in a much more positive way .

smileytiger

UnderPressure wrote: »

I think that might be a little harsh if I am being honest for a moment...............

It is her choice to smoke as it was yours, it is great that you now have quit the habit but did anyone ever spray nice smelling things on you and make you feel as though you smelled when you were smoking? Now you are a non smoker you need to learnt to be tolerant as people were with you, it is great you no longer smoke but there was a time not so long ago you smelled exactly the same as this friend of yours, people who did not smoke were tolerant of this around you, you now need to extend the same tolerance to your friend.

Making her feel as though she is doing something wrong and then making her feel as though she stinks is probably the quickest way to make her an ex friend.

I hope you do not mind me poking my nose in I was just a little concerned at the tone of your post, either way I hope you have a great weekend and well done for quitting, this time Monday I too will be a member of your club and I cannot wait

Sorry if i came across as harsh - that was purely unintentional - that's the problem with typing what you actually mean can come across as something totally different to another. Perish the thought that i would actually ever be that horrible to one of my oldest friends, but obviously my late night humour wasn't appreciated. I'm a great believer in taking people at face value smokers or not, and would never discriminate against someone because they do now i don't. For the record my OH still smokes and again although i've posted about banning him from the house as we do our pre sale refurb, i'd like to think it was taken with a pinch of my Yorkshire humour attached to it.
So sorry again if i offended anyone.

Chrissie.x

choille

I actually don't mind too much the smell of smoke - which was dangerous at first. When going off to the town I would pass shops with people outside smoking & breathe it in - really go for the passive hit.........But the stale acrid, burnt smell on clothes confused me at first - how dense I was. It took a wee while to figure out what it was.

I know few who smoke. It doesn't seem a common thing here so that did make it easier - well did as it doesn't bother me really. I am glad that they have banned it in cafes & indoors as even when I smoked I found it too smokey - which was a cheek on my part as I was adding to it too.

I found a confidence boost from stopping nicotine. It really does the soul good to know that you can free yourself from its grip. It is a powerful drug & by saying NO, by stopping the cigs then you are proving to yourself that you are bigger than it. Heady stuff!

All the best everyone.