The Giving Up Smoking Thread - Part 3

rmplc

penelopedee wrote: »

Kiwisaver, my really sad bad mood cleared up by about day 3 - 4. But DH and I bickered badly for about 2 weeks (both gave up at the same time).


ETA: 20 days cold turkey

Penelopee, i think mine was around the same time, the 3-4 day point, can I just say well done on 20 days smoke free :j

salski wrote: »

Good afternoon all.
I was absent yesterday as I was out of the house all day! Boy did it take its toll...37 weeks pregnant and by 8pm I couldnt keep my eyes open Haha
Still getting lots of false contractions and baby is wriggling lots (right on cue then lol) and Im feeling good. Keep waking up at silly o'clock in the night thinking about labour! Haha
Smoking wise - I had one very hard craving last night. I really thought about going to buy 10 to just have one. I really wanted one. And even when the craving went, I was still thinking 'I really want one anyway - I'll be fine now just having one'
I didnt, but I really could have! Everyone seems to be doing really well! Keep at the good work!
Sally x

Salski, can I just ask, are you sure they are Braxton Hicks your feeling?

Good for you, you thought about buying fags but didnt, the thoughts you have will fade away, and you equally are doing really well.

determined_new_ms wrote: »

Hey kiwi all I can say is day 19 i look like wired poo on a rusty shovel,

Determined, all I can say to that is LOLLOLLOLLOLLOLLOL :rotfl:

rmplc

salski wrote: »

My question is - is it really possible to give up forever? What do you guys think?

Salski, yes you can give up for ever, i use my dad and Sue as inspiration to achieve, Sue as she has been smoke free for 12 years, my dad as he has been smoke free for 18 years, that to me shows it can be done, you brother seems very negative towards the idea, and I agree with Sue, perhaps he wants you to fail, perhaps to make himself feel better?

If you want this to be a lifelong quit, then you need to get into that mindset, that this is for life, to enable you to spend a good life with your baby when she is born, not be outside hacking your lungs up every time you light up , thinking 'if only id not restarted'.

Together we are here for eachother, and you know we will be here for you too

determined_new_ms wrote: »

tell your brother to not speak like this around you salski! :silenced: :think: ok lets think about it, if we tell ourselves something is true (negative self talk) then we give ourselves an excuse to not do someone and can justify it when we (inevitably) fail. i.e. I tell myself I'm a failure and won't pass my exams, I don't study (cos I want to do something else) and then "I knew I would fail". Hundreds of thousands of people have given up smoking successfully, if I slip up then I made a mistake and I continue/stop again.

If thousands of people can give up why can't I or you? we can its b0llocks, sue-uu (where is she btw?????) is fantastic and wonderful but she is no more able to achieve anything than we are - if she can do it so can we. Yes we are going to face stress (me on a daily basis currently) which makes me think about smoking but that's just habit and when I think about ti I think if ppl like sue can do it so can I!

You're borther is making justifications for why he smokes and is trying to drag you back with him (no offence but misery loves misery as do smokers love smokers! :rotfl:) you're doing fantastic, tell your brother that might be the case for him but you x

Completly agree

Sue-UU wrote: »

Sally, from your post and all you've said above, I for one would be concerned whether you will stay free from smoking after your little girl is born. I'm not sure why you Brother has been so mean as to even hint at the possibility of you going back to your old ways, but DNM could well have a point in that he wants you to fail!!! Your poor Gran possibly didn't have all the information of what smoking does to us when she started smoking - but I don't think the same is true of your Bro and you.

Yes, it's possible to quit for good....forever! I've been completely free for 12 years and I'm extremely proud of that, but the years leading up to me quitting were terrifyingly frightening - my mind filled with all that I was laying myself open to IF I didn't stop. If anyone else goes through those fears then I dearly hope they too will quit - before it's too late.

As you're soon to have your little one with you I'd thought you were seeking a whole new life for yourself and her, I hope that's right and that you continue to keep away from smoking and all that you've seen is possible to happen if you don't. If your Bro wants to keep smoking and risk ending up like your Gran and millions like her then you won't stop him, no one will, but you now have 2 people to quit for - do they really matter to you...enough to stay free?? Of course they do! Go on Sally, you tell him and mean it - that you're going to do this and be free from it for LIFE - yours and your little girl's!!! :A
Take good care Sally, you deserve to, but always remember that yes, anyone can be where I am, I had the courage to pursue a dream and many, many others on these threads have don as well. Can you?

Again completely agree with Sue (my god this woman talks sense)

rmplc

bottleofred wrote: »

Hi folks,

I hope you are all doing well with giving up the habit. I smoked heavily for approximately 15 years and eventually managed to give up through sheer willpower and determination. Smoking for me was a habit that is very difficult to break. However, I promise all of you, if I can do it then anyone can and I've now quit for almost 5 years. I know it's difficult, but it is possible to quit and everyone should do what works for them. Don't let people wear you down either with their tales of woe, just take one day at a time and concentrate on that.

Good luck to you all

Red

Bottleofred, WOW well done :j 5 years, i bet you feel like a new person???

Thankyou so much for telling us that it can be done, for me personally it has put that glimmer of hope in

Kiwisaver_2

Crikey, it's Friday night and officially the start of the weekend for me and I suddenly find that I'm almost one week smokefree already.:D While the first few days seemed agonisingly long - now looking back over the week it seems to have flown by.

Despite having had belly ache all day today I have got home from work in quite a good mood compared to the last two evenings. Still not quite up to skipping through the meadows just yet!! :rotfl:

I swear I am tasting the nicotine patch now as I have a horrid taste in my mouth and that burning sensation as if I have been chewing nicotine gum (I haven't) and I haven't been chewing patches either.:eek: I'll see how I go over the weekend and might see about picking up my next prescription for the Step 2 & 3 patches and start thinking about reducing next week.

JokerDurden

Patches 91 Hours and 30 mins.

Well gave up before in 2007 for two years, then stupidly went away overseas and started smoking of all things Cigars.

Had my breath test with the Doc and it was off the scale, this is my 4 attempt in 6 months to pack them in as I was smoking the Cafe Cremes for ages (prob about 15 a day). So 6 quid a day.

Got my furthest now and its starting to get easier, yesterday was a real pain as all I could think about was popping over to the shop and having a crafty one but instead started rolling out Blu-Tak instead, blue hands but clear lungs lol.

Kiwisaver_2

Welcome JokerDurden and well done on coming this far

JokerDurden wrote: »

Well gave up before in 2007 for two years, then stupidly went away overseas and started smoking of all things Cigars.

If it helps any, I have done this too!! I smoked the Cafe Cremes for a while until I ended up smoking almost as many of them as cigarettes.

JokerDurden

Kiwisaver wrote: »

If it helps any, I have done this too!! I smoked the Cafe Cremes for a while until I ended up smoking almost as many of them as cigarettes.

Many thanks, can't believe I was stupid enough to start again after so long off cigarettes and then to start on them which are lots worse and even smoking two back to back because they went so quick, but this is it, deffo not going back

rmplc

Kiwisaver wrote: »

Crikey, it's Friday night and officially the start of the weekend for me and I suddenly find that I'm almost one week smokefree already.:D While the first few days seemed agonisingly long - now looking back over the week it seems to have flown by.

Despite having had belly ache all day today I have got home from work in quite a good mood compared to the last two evenings. Still not quite up to skipping through the meadows just yet!! :rotfl:

I swear I am tasting the nicotine patch now as I have a horrid taste in my mouth and that burning sensation as if I have been chewing nicotine gum (I haven't) and I haven't been chewing patches either.:eek: I'll see how I go over the weekend and might see about picking up my next prescription for the Step 2 & 3 patches and start thinking about reducing next week.

Hi Kiwi, its an odd one isnt it, the first days drag and drrraaaaaaaaag, but before you know it your approaching a week and it sems to have flown by

whenever i wore the patches, i could always taste them when it was time to reduce the strength, its a horrible taste isnt it yuk!

JokerDurden wrote: »

Patches 91 Hours and 30 mins.

Well gave up before in 2007 for two years, then stupidly went away overseas and started smoking of all things Cigars.

Had my breath test with the Doc and it was off the scale, this is my 4 attempt in 6 months to pack them in as I was smoking the Cafe Cremes for ages (prob about 15 a day). So 6 quid a day.

Got my furthest now and its starting to get easier, yesterday was a real pain as all I could think about was popping over to the shop and having a crafty one but instead started rolling out Blu-Tak instead, blue hands but clear lungs lol.

Hi Joker, and welcome aboard, you will be well looked after here, have you read through any of the old posts? if you havent can I suggest you take a little nose through them, some great hints and tips.

In regards to starting again after such a long quit, try not to think about it, that is inthe past, today is a new smokefree day, if you live in the past with what could have been, then you will not progress forward (i hope that makes sense)

I wish you well for your quit, are you cold turkey or are you having assistance? I for one used champix tablets, but there is a bit of everything on this forum.

91 hours, thats about 3 1/2 days if im correct (which there is every chance im not lol)

Good luck

Yorkshireman79

5 days smoke free - Patches 2 days then cold turkey....

Hi all,

Hoping I can join for moral support. I smoked 15 a day for 15 years. Day 1 and 2 for me were fine, once I took the patches of though that's when I found the going got tough. Have been drinking lots of water, straight from work I have been in the gym or out for a run. At the moment I am not looking too far ahead as when I think of a life smokefree for some reason it scares me a bit. Taking one day at a time. Tonight will be difficult as I normally go for a few pints after work. Don't know whether to chance it or just go straight home. The benefits at the moment are fab. My OH keeps commenting on how nice I smell! The only time I have spent money this week is on petrol and my tastebuds are definitely on the mend. I swear the bacon sandwich I had yesterday was immense. I woke up this morning and it was the first time in years that I didn't automatically think of having a smoke. I hope thats a sign of things to come and not just a one off! Good luck to you all.

salski

Hiya all

Thanks for the responses regarding my brother and our conversation. I appreciate your responses but to be fair if you knew my brother, you would know he doesnt really have the intelligence to think so sneakily consciously or not LOL. Nasty Iknow, but he is a bit dopey and I think he does really believe it cant be done! Haha

As for me - yesterday was a good day. Bro was here smoking in garden all day and it never bothered me.
Food issues seem to have settled down and tomorrow will be 2 weeks smoke free. Its been hard and easy in equal measures lol
Deffo not in labour - so going to be: EATING CURRY, PINEAPPLE, LOTS OF HANKY PANKY, WALKING AND ANYTHING ELSE I can read up online that helps bring labout on Haha

Hope everyone is coping well

Positive thoughts to everyone! xxx