The Giving Up Smoking Thread!!

Frugaldom

NOW I understand how people can save so much in their banks etc! I'm always too mean to put anything more than a 20p in mine and tend to bank it as soon as it fills a change back. It never even crossed my mind that it was ciggy savings. My ciggy piggy is a real piggy bank and I have a new account opened so I can transfer the money. The MSE 'demotivator' said I was spending 557.50 a tear on cigs, so that's my target for next year.

yellowmonkey

Well done everyone. Well done Oops and Tatty on your markable achievments :T :T :T :T

nykmedia. Wasnt a money matter for me either as i used to get tobacco from Belguim really cheap. All down to looking after me :T

Joe Excellent advice as usual. You have been there for everyone. Thanks :T

Still going strong with no pangs at all. Nearly 5 weeks now.

Have a good day everyone

ym

oops_a_daisy

Well done fellow quitters

Day 2 patch firmly in place. I did start snacking last night so i must stop that now as I have only just got my weight down again :rolleyes: I have just found a receipt and a pack of fags cost me £4.79 which works out at £33.53 per week and £145.30 per month and £1743.56 a year :eek: I am not saving the money seperately but when I start to have a bit of money left over in my bank account I will put that money aside.


Right I am back to work today so i had better get started :hello:

jo1972

Hi all

Oops and Cath, congrats to you both :D

How's everyone else doing this morning? I've got one last day off before I go back to work tomorrow, I said last month that during the xmas holidays I was going to paint my lounge, bathroom and toilet plus take all the stuff down the tip that I wanted to get rid of, go through everyone's wardrobes and get rid of the stuff that doesn't fit any more and get rid of the old toys to make way for the news ones. Guess what I've done so far in 2 weeks.....visited B&Q, bought the paint and rollers and they've been sat in my car ever since, that's it, nothing else, now I feel bad as I'm sat here on MSE (again), waiting for my bacon buttie that DD1's making me and contemplating taking the kids out shopping for the day.

Ah well, it'll still be there tomorrow!!

xx

Toothsmith

melbury wrote: »

I used to get stressed going the dentist not because of anything he might do, but because he spent the whole time nagging me about the evils of smoking and how all smokers should be shot!

I always asked him to clean the tar stains off the back of my teeth to which he always said, if they were on the front I bet you wouldn't smoke at all - and of course he was right.

So now I can go and plead for an extra special cleaning session and hopefully (but very doubtfully) get a pat on the back for being good and stopping.:j

This sounds like you might well be one of my patients - as that's exactly what I tell mine!!!!

If you are one of mine, then yes - you will get a good pat on the back for stopping, and you will come out with teeth shining like Donny Osmond!!

Well done!

(I'm an ex smoker of 12 yrs now - that's probably one of the reasons I'm so anti-smoking. That plus all the perfectly healthy teeth I have removed over my career because the gum disease induced by smoking has rotted away the bone supporting them)

Frugaldom

Hello my happy little fellow quitters, how are you all doing today?
So far, so good and I would normally have bought cigs today but haven't, so I'm marking £5 off my budget to go into my 'ciggy piggy' savings fund. It's been over 48 hours since last cig and I must be fortunate in that I was never really addicted in the first place - I refuse to believe it's an addiction, it's just a habit - so I haven't had any cravings (yet?) and hope not to have any. But I do realise that it'll take at least 72 hours to clear the nicotine out system completely - have I got that part right?

Good luck to all and is there anyone on here that's a long term quitter? I've met a few but none have ever said they missed cigs. Hmm... none are rich, either, so I must make a point of asking them what they did with the money they saved from quitting

melbury

Toothsmith wrote: »

This sounds like you might well be one of my patients - as that's exactly what I tell mine!!!!

If you are one of mine, then yes - you will get a good pat on the back for stopping, and you will come out with teeth shining like Donny Osmond!!

Well done!

(I'm an ex smoker of 12 yrs now - that's probably one of the reasons I'm so anti-smoking. That plus all the perfectly healthy teeth I have removed over my career because the gum disease induced by smoking has rotted away the bone supporting them)

No you are definitely not my dentist (more's the pity) because he has never smoked. I would love to come out of there next time with teeth shining like Donny Osmond, but will probably only get the quick clean.

Now being a dentist you will know the answer to this, is it possible to offer to pay extra for a good tooth cleaning/whitening session? I would gladly pay extra to have all of the smoking residue removed from my teeth forever! Is it worth asking my dentist next time anyway?

Thanks for any advice you can give on this.

melbury

nykmedia wrote: »

Hello my happy little fellow quitters, how are you all doing today?
So far, so good and I would normally have bought cigs today but haven't, so I'm marking £5 off my budget to go into my 'ciggy piggy' savings fund. It's been over 48 hours since last cig and I must be fortunate in that I was never really addicted in the first place - I refuse to believe it's an addiction, it's just a habit - so I haven't had any cravings (yet?) and hope not to have any. But I do realise that it'll take at least 72 hours to clear the nicotine out system completely - have I got that part right?

Good luck to all and is there anyone on here that's a long term quitter? I've met a few but none have ever said they missed cigs. Hmm... none are rich, either, so I must make a point of asking them what they did with the money they saved from quitting

Glad to hear you are doing OK - keep it up!

I have now been a smoke free zone for six whole days :T . Still find it quite hard to accept the fact that I cannot smoke with a drink, there is still a slight pang of regret, as that is when I do REALLY miss the cigs. However, I know if I lit one up now it would taste absolutely putrid and probably make me sick, it is just the idea that is appealing. I am not going to give in though, I have got through the last six days to throw it all away.

JoeHel

Hi nykmedia. Yup, it's 72 hours to completely rid your body of all nicotine and start the body's healing process. You are actually in very good company in not accepting that nicotine is addictive .... representatives of all the tobacco companies swore in court that they believe the same...

To quit anything (eg alcohol, cigarrettes or other drugs) it is widely agreed that success lies in education and understanding why you do what you do in the first place. So I have to ask you. If you aren't or weren't addicted to nicotine, why did you light up? What do you think it was that made you keep spending money to do something that smells vile, tastes vile, is antisocial, fills your body with 4,000 chemicals (many of which are poisonous toxins) and has a 1 in 2 chance of killing you prematurely? :eek:


Oh, and the money. Well, in the 2 months I haven't smoked, I haven't spend £427.29 on ciggies. No, I don't have that money sat anywhere as extra, but I had a lot more cash available at Christmas and my credit cards weren't touched for the first time ever!!

JoeHel

melbury wrote: »

Glad to hear you are doing OK - keep it up!

I have now been a smoke free zone for six whole days :T . Still find it quite hard to accept the fact that I cannot smoke with a drink, there is still a slight pang of regret, as that is when I do REALLY miss the cigs. However, I know if I lit one up now it would taste absolutely putrid and probably make me sick, it is just the idea that is appealing. I am not going to give in though, I have got through the last six days to throw it all away.

Melbury that is fantastic, you are doing brilliantly. You are dead right - if you lit up now it would taste and smell revolting because your senses are no longer dulled to protect you from that horrible taste and stench. Plus even one puff would put you back at the start of your 72 hour detox again!!!

You have got it in one - it's only the IDEA which is appealing. And I'm sorry to say that the idea is no longer true anyway. Because you no longer have a physical addiction to nicotine, you don't have any real craving to satisfy. So a puff would satisfy nothing, give you a hit of 4,000 toxic chemicals and put you back to square one in your nicotine detox.

Reckon it would be worth it? Nah, me neither!