The Giving Up Smoking Thread!!

BigEars_2

TNG - just a quickie as I'm off to do some smoke free shopping - if my PH was like you I would have quit years ago!! I'm funding my own curly wurly habit here!

Hi to Jo, Elle, Adz and everyone else - have a good night

BE x

silverbullit

Hi everyone, it's good to see lots of new people joining the thread and doing well. Keep up the effort because it is well worth it!***Four months, one week, six days, 15 hours, 40 minutes and 3 seconds. 2049 cigarettes not smoked, saving £454.17. Life saved: 1 week, 2 hours, 45 minutes.***

jo1972

Hey all

Elle, good luck for the weekend

BE, how are you finding being smoke free now?

TNG, that's fantastic news about Mrs T, bet you never thought you'd be buying Godiva choccies for her 3rd smoke free anniversary huh?! Hope you're well

SB, how you doing? I noticed that QOTSA are playing again in London in February, dunno if they're playing up your way. I'm going on 26th or summat, OMG I am SO excited! Then we're going to watch Interpol on the 30th, it's like a week of gigs

How's everyone else, sorry to everyone I've missed but I've just not had much time today, I shall be back on form tomorrow I promise

IDA, how's it going mate? Thinking of ya hun

xx

jo1972

Hold on a minute......where's Adz

TNG

jo1972 wrote: »

Hold on a minute......where's Adz

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mumzyof2

Ok i wrote last week saying that was going to quit - that didnt happen? I dread waking as the first thing i think about is having my first cig of day...how can i stop myself thinking this?

JoeHel

mumzyof2 wrote: »

Ok i wrote last week saying that was going to quit - that didnt happen? I dread waking as the first thing i think about is having my first cig of day...how can i stop myself thinking this?

What worked for me was reading the Allen Carr book all weekend (plus the stuff on WhyQuit.com about giving up nicotine) then I had a smoke-a-thon and finished all the ciggies I had on Sunday night! So I knew I'd have none to wake up to on Monday morning and I could make use of the few hours I'd been without nicotine while asleep!! It takes 72 hours for the nicotine to leave your body completely (cranberry juice helps speed that up by the way!) Yes, you feel a bit up and down but it's really not that bad and less uncomfortable than having a mild cold! Then on day 4 you wake up CALM. It's indescribable how lovely it feels to know that the nicotine monster has died and you are FREE!!! I can't believe how amazing it feels already! :j

I have been quit for 1 Week, 4 Days, 11 minutes and 33 seconds (11 days). I have saved £80.13 by not smoking 308 cigarettes. I have saved 1 Day, 1 hour and 40 minutes of my life. My Quit Date: 04/11/2007 23:00

jo1972

Mumzy, don't beat yourself up about it. There is no way you will have a successful quit if you aren't completely ready. JoeHel has given you some excellent advice as this gives you time to prepare before actually quitting. The Allen Carr approach means that you smoke whilst reading the book and then have your last one at the end, but by the time you get to the end of the book you are unlikely to want to smoke anyway. Is there anyone you can quit with? I always find a little friendly competitiveness is a sure way to egg me on How have you quit in the past? Have you tried NRT, particularly patches, I found, are very useful. When using patches I always felt as if I just had a fag, I still wanted one from time to time but not half as bad with nothing. The patch gives your body a rest from the withdrawal symptoms whilst you sort the mental habitual bits out. Good luck mumzy, stick around on here and keep us updated, just cos it didn't work last time doesn't mean you have to be banished from the thread

Sorry, gone on a bit there, morning all I gotta go work now, hope you're all well and speak to you later.

Adz, where are you??

in_debt_again_but_dealing_with_it

Hi all
Great advice Joe, mumzy you WILL do it - when your time is right!
Hey Jo all good with me, scan in 4 days, boobs still ballooning, still feeling icky (occasionally) and still eating for England (although thats psychological me thinks!!)- so will be glad once had the scan so know where we stand. Haven't told the family yet, a couple of close friends know but thats all - not used to keeping secrets and feel soo guilty talking to my mum!!!
Well done Mrs TNG - you are such a nice man TNG, my dh never gives me anything - except babies !!
ADZ WHERE YOU AT?????
Happy smoke free days all.
IDA
x

TNG

in_debt_again_but_dealing_with_it wrote: »

Well done Mrs TNG - you are such a nice man TNG, my dh never gives me anything - except babies !!

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Thanks IDA, that's really kind of you to say so

Got another weekend coming up, though :eek: . If I don't post by lunchtime on Monday, I'm in little pieces.....

mumzy - don't worry. Read books! (about smoking, that is). The more you can understand about the nature of the addiction, the easier you will find it to stop. That goes for anything. Didn't someone say that once.... "Know your enemy".

And there's always us lot :rolleyes:

Enjoy your Friday, everyone. :j