My Quitting Smoking Diary - yours too!

JennyJewell

Hello Sue and all
Just coming back onto MSE after a long time away and thought I would check in with you all and let you know my progress Well I'm very pleased to report that it has been over a year and a month now since I stopped smoking and I honestly couldn't feel happier Never have I felt so happy and I'm now starting to get into fitness - something that I never thought I would hear myself say,lol! I absolutely love it when I clean my teeth and see my tongue furless and pink I have not had one chest infection since I stopped smoking - I used to suffer constantly with them! Just breathing real fresh air, clothes and hair smelling fantastic and my risk of having lung cancer lessened dramatically is such an amazing feeling!
For all the people who have just stopped - celebrate every hour and every day because every hour and every day is an accomplishment and you won't believe how fast this year has gone. The best thing is that I absolutely know that I will never smoke a stinking fag ever again
Best wishes,
Jenny x

shinner

Well i have managed 2wks now been a long road been walking lots due to being off school. Not looking forward to going back lol.
Hope your ok Sue noticed on other post you aren't to good.

chevettehs

Long time since I've been on MSE as change of working pattern (got made redundant and now work evenings) has meant I've not been on much but was checking for some data on other things and thought I'd check in.

Now over 3 years since I gave up on 13th November, 2009. Not had a single one since then and don't have the urge at all these days.

Had a couple of near misses when out for a drink, but I barely drink now so it's not all that much of a big deal and I've resisted.

JennyJewell

Well done shinner Keep going - it's so worth it Do you work in a school? I do and I would either go for a healthy walk at lunchtime or if it was cold I would just enjoy staying in the warm chatting to healthy work colleagues while the others froze in the rain and cold with their cancer sticks,lol!

I hope you are ok Sue?

Very inspiring chevettehs - I do now wonder to myself why I didn't do it earlier,lol?!! It feels blinkin fantastic
Jenny x

madmary_2

Hello. Hope I can join this thread. I am on my last packet of ciggies which I bought last Thursday. I have only had one ciggie today.

What has helped is an e-cig. Not ideal but years and years of trying and failing I realise that I am a total addict and I needed a substitute that wasn't costing me the earth.

I am not giving up for health reasons but for financial. I have saved a lot of money in the last two or three weeks by cutting down gradually even factoring in the cost of the ecig.

Yesterday I had 2 cigs, today 1. By the end of this week I aim to be real cig free.

Wish me luck.

Mary

Sue-UU

JennyJewell wrote:

Well I'm very pleased to report that it has been over a year and a month now since I stopped smoking and I honestly couldn't feel happier Never have I felt so happy and I'm now starting to get into fitness - something that I never thought I would hear myself say,lol! I absolutely love it when I clean my teeth and see my tongue furless and pink I have not had one chest infection since I stopped smoking - I used to suffer constantly with them! Just breathing real fresh air, clothes and hair smelling fantastic and my risk of having lung cancer lessened dramatically is such an amazing feeling!

For all the people who have just stopped - celebrate every hour and every day because every hour and every day is an accomplishment and you won't believe how fast this year has gone. The best thing is that I absolutely know that I will never smoke a stinking fag ever again

Hi Jenny, it's marvellous to have you back to update us and being so radiant.....all due to QUITTING THE FAGS!!!!!

Very many congratulations on having been away from smoking for over 13 months!!!!! :T:j:j:j:T

Actually the words 1 year and 1 month sound so much more of an accomplishment somehow, but however you word it, Jenny, you've done brilliantly and I'm so terribly proud of you!! To hear you're so well into exercise as well is wonderful!

I honestly believe smoking makes us far more inclined to be a little lazy as we were more content to sit with a fag....in the old days! No more though, you're now free to LIVE your life. GREAT news about the chest infections - me too and that's about the very best as they frightened me terribly.

Keep coming back to update us to spur others on too. I'm slowly improving after a really nasty muscle spasm in my lower back, it's been wicked. It happens now and then, but I worsened the whole thing on Sunday and it's been agony since! Not to worry, it'll soon be better...I hope! I just had to come on here today though after seeing an alert with your name on - I guessed!

Thanks so very much,

Sue xxx

chevettehs wrote:

Now over 3 years since I gave up on 13th November, 2009. Not had a single one since then and don't have the urge at all these days.

Helloooo there, chevettehs!! It was a real shock to see just how long you've quit for - excellent news!!!

Very many congratulations on an amazing 3 years free of those nasty little white sticks!!!!! :j :T:T:T:T:j

You've done brilliantly and I'm delighted you decided to check in and let us know as it really is terrific encouragement to others in progress.

I'm so chuffed you realised drinking was a risk, we all soon get to know we need to steer clear of. VERY WELL DONE, chevettehs, you deserve all the praise imaginable...and don't forget us next year..please!

Sue xxx

shinner wrote:

Well I have managed 2wks now been a long road been walking lots due to being off school.

Fantastic news, shinner!!! 2 (plus) weeks is amazing and it means you CAN do it!! :T:T It's good to hear you've done alot of walking as it helps clear the system faster as well as making you feel a lot better. Read through Jenny's & chevettehs's posts to help motivate you more and keep walking as much as possible as you really will benefit.

Thanks so much for caring too, here's the latest that I put to Jenny. "I'm slowly improving after a really nasty muscle spasm in my lower back, it's been wicked. It happens now and then, but I worsened the whole thing on Sunday and it's been agony since! Not to worry, it'll soon be better...I hope!"

Keep staying focused, shinner, you CAN do it!!

Sue xx

Hello Mary, a very warm welcome, please see my PM to you.

Sue x

Keep on striving forwards, everyone, this is a journey like no other as Jenny & chevettehs will tell you, and once you reach that goal you'll know just what I and all those like me mean. Be happy, patient and be so very proud of each and every ciggy you don't have - each is a milestone! :grinheart

Sue x

rising_from_the_ashes

Hello all ... sorry not popped in before - I've not been online (at all:eek:) for ages!:o

Just popped into say "keep it up, it's worth it" to everyone :T.... Sue I've made progress ...... moved from counting in days to months!

Sue-UU

Never mind, Rising, at least you're here now - and - with news that you're now a whopping 6 months FREE OF FAGS is terrific!!!!!!!! :T:j:T

I've often wondered how you were going so it's just wonderful to see you having done sooooo very well.

Keep up the counting and I'll be so thrilled to see it grow! Doesn't life get good when you kick the habit out of your life. :grinheart

Sue x

rising_from_the_ashes

It's fab Sue still have the odd urge but nowhere near as often and fairly easily dismissed!

I can even stand beside smokers (I do miss the gossip that we used to have outside ) and not want one at all!

The ones that were really hard - out walking the dog etc ... honestly never think about them at all now!

Keep it up everyone :T

iamashoppingaddict

Wow 42 days!!! I had to come here to find my last post and work out how many days it had been as I had forgotten again!!!

I was on annual leave from work last week so it was a little difficult as I could always smoke when I wanted to when I wasn't at work.

The cravings and that feeling in the stomach is still there a little bit but its getting easier to ignore. ish.

I haven't smoked at all anyway and don't want to. Its just my mind really.