The Giving Up Smoking Thread!!

TOBRUK

Hi everyone, you all seem to be doing well, and welcome to you new posties - jetrox I hope you had a good first day!
jo I expect your house is gleaming by now Adz, I see you started again and stopped today?? Well I hope you are in a better mood than when I last spoke to you on here

Adzha

Moods never that good, ask anyone

JoeHel

babes21 wrote: »

Hello everyoneAs anyone read "easy way for women to stop smoking" by Alan Carr? I'm half way through the book, how did those that read it find it? Did anyone manage to successfully quit by using this method?Thanks in advance x

Hiya. Me again! I finished the Allen Carr book last Sunday and had my last ciggie at 11pm - so just under 7 days ago. I also read a lot of info on WhyQuit.com, which all works on the same principle - NO NICOTINE AT ALL! The first 72 hours were fine - a little "anxious" now and again but nothing I couldn't handle. Woke up on Wednesday and the niggly feeling had gone completely. I have been drunk twice and not remotely interested in ever lighting up again. My partner and his son both smoke and they are still smoking in our flat and it doesn't bother me in the slightest (as long as I'm allowed a window open to get some fresh air!!!)

I wish I'd done this YEARS ago. I have smoked 30 a day for 22 years. I am LOVING the feeling of my body repairing itself - I'm PROPERLY tired for the first time in years and I can breathe more deeply every day. My skin is looking better b the day and every day things are smelling and tasting stronger. I love my little "quitkeeper" programme that tells me "I have been quit for 6 Days, 21 hours, 55 minutes and 50 seconds (6 days). I have saved £50.32 by not smoking 193 cigarettes. I have saved 16 hours and 5 minutes of my life. My Quit Date: 04/11/2007 23:00".

My dad is so beside himself that I've quit he can't say enough how happy he is. I can't wait to tell my 10yr and 8yr old nephews, who beg me every time I see them to quit.

I cannot tell you how happy I am. I feel like I've been let out of prison. I'm calmer than I've been in years and I never EVER want to be a slave to that drug again. My self-respect has SOARED at what I've achieved and if I had any idea how to help someone else get this feeling oh my god I would LOVE it.

My only suggestion would be to read about nicotine and what it is/does. Success without nicotine replacement products is MUCH HIGHER. You don't need another form of the same drug to quit the fags. The three day withdrawal is less stressful than a mild cold and the rewards already are so worth it. I've just turned 40 and hopefully, if I've quit in time.

Adzha

Well done :j

JoeHel

thanks Adzha. How are you doing? Did you start your quit again today? I've tried a few times before to quit but never felt this positive or determined. Sometimes it's just finding the way that "clicks" for you.

Adzha

Yeh started again today, and not smoked

Thanks for asking

JoeHel

Well done you!!! I don't know if it will help you at all, but as a 40 year old who should have known better a LONG time ago I found that the info at WhyQuit.com was FANTASTIC. If you're bored, have a look. Educating myself into what nicotine REALLY does and not burying my head in the sand any longer has been the best thing I ever did. I'm honestly SO happy to have quit. All you need is a postive attitude and 72 hours without nicotine and you CAN be free and happy about it, I promise!

(PS I'm not involved in this site at all and someone else recommended it to me so I'm just passing the info on!!!)

Adzha

No problem

We get taught it all at school etc. but when you reach for that "innocent white stick" you don't think of what it does to you.

jo1972

Hi Joehel!

That's fantastic! I can so feel how proud you are of yourself

Whyquit is a great site, it is a link that is included in the first post of this thread (can't remember who mentioned it in the first place now ), anyway, I think it's great as it breaks it down and is a very simple way of telling you what smoking does to you and why you shouldn't do it. I'm so pleased for you, thanks for sharing, please keep on doing so

Having a very stressful day, my two youngest aren't well so doubt I'll have a very good night Hope you're all having a better evening, albeit probably being woken up by the fireworks :mad:

xx

JoeHel

So true Adz. And even though we know they kill you, we still carry on. I think maybe it was something in the way this site phrased their wording - made me suddenly realise with a jolt that it wasn't just "having a ciggie", I was a hopeless drug addict. Once I'd accepted that, it didn't seem like such a bad thing to "give up"...;)