The Giving Up Smoking Thread!!

jo1972

Morning all

I can't believe I've been at my new job for a week already :eek:

Times flies.....

How is everyone today??

IDA, forgot to ask the other day, have you told your kids about the pregnancy yet?

xx

TNG

Morning all :hello:

Hope we're all well.

For those that have OHs stopping, how long before 'normality' returns?? Purely hypothetical question, obviously

BigEars_2

:A Morning all. I hope everyone is having a good day at work/school/tidying the house/buying chocolate for the wife.

It's a beautiful sunny Monday albeit freezing cold - however, has anyone noticed that when you've given up you don't get cold half as easily? Once upon a time I'd have had 2 coats and my earmuffs on just sat at my desk - not any more!

Some other lovely things I thought I'd share...

Ran up the stairs at the tube station today instead of wheezing up the escalator
Was able to kiss the OH without having to quickly brush teeth/eat mints (he can't stand smoke)
Can wear gloves on the way to work (couldn't when I was smoking as the fags stained the gloves)
Didn't miss any gossip during girlie afternoon on Saturday as I wasn't constantly disappearing 'to powder my nose'
I can drink more now (realised it's the fags that cause the hangover, not the amount of booze - heh heh) :T :beer:

Any more for any more?

BE x

Adzha

Nice to be back finally. Got Sunday, Monday and Tuesday all smoke free.

BigEars_2

Morning all, hope we are all still on track. Jo, I hope your little uns are better now? Nice to see you back in the game Adz.
I finally started to feel good and the cravings stopped (NB I never did get to borrow that Allen Carr book so this achievement is purely on will power and the nagging talents of my OH) but I have eaten my own bodyweight in chocolate since Sunday. Hmph...typical!
BE x

TOBRUK

Hi jo, TNG, Adz, Bigears,joehel, costalot, Frugaljo, ada, and all :hello: - did I miss anyone? ... how is everyone? It's been pretty quiet around here and with the problems with this site! Bigears and joehel you are doing SO well how is it going???

I've had an odd few days where I had decided to go for it starting Monday but when Monday came I was so nervous and then as I had 4 cigs left I smoked them although cross with myself, but 10.30am came and decided no more! Anyway I didn't put a patch on as I was a little frightened because I had had those 4 first thing, and went through the day without .... but ... 6pm came and I was frantic :eek: what did I do? No, I didn't stick a patch on I went to get some bacco :eek: SO cross with myself - between that and this forum was down! Anyway decided that tomorrow was going to be the date but now I am crumbling ... again!

Anyone here who has given up found that they set a day but crashed last minute?

Adzha

Not me

I just keep starting again though

TOBRUK

Oh thanks Adz ... very helpful :rolleyes:

Anyway how are you doing?

Adzha

Lol what did you want me to say?

I'm ok. U?

BigEars_2

Hey Tobruk, how are you? I know how it feels to bottle it (hey I lurked on this thread FOREVER before finally doing it) but tomorrow is another day - why not just keep daring yourself, an hour at a time? I know what the logic is in quit dates and stuff like that but I found I smoked more in the lead up to it if I knew I 'had' to quit soon..
So one Saturday morning I just woke up and said if I can get through this weekend I can have a fag on Monday but then didn't have the fag on Monday. I've had 2 blips but as long as you remember they are blips and not the start of a new habit it seems to pass....(alert: please don't read on if you're a poliss) I like to have the occasional joint so I knew I'd be coming into contact with the evil baccy at times but I think the trick is going to be having it but then moving on, not being sucked into having a fag as well for old times' sake or whatever.
Does that make sense or am I just rambling now?
Anyway, what I was trying to say is, GOOD LUCK and I'm sure you can do it.

I had a terrible call centre experience with BT today while at work and I got soooooooooo frustrated. I had been on for literally 2 hours and I could feel my heartrate increasing to a dangerous rate.
There's a few of us quitting together and I demanded someone give me an emergency fag to calm down. But then I took a few deep breaths and someone shoved a very strong coffee in my hand and it passed. It really did. I was thinking the whole time "oh I'll just wait 5 mins then run to the shop and get some and no-one can stop me" - but actually after the 5 minutes I didn't want one any more :A I can't believe it actually happened. I feel weird!!

Well, off home soon so I will say good night to everyone still on here, and good luck!
BE x