The Giving Up Smoking Thread!!

Frugaldom

BrickingIt wrote: »

Oh s**t Manchester City have just scored. - I'm off down the shop.

Manchester City? Is that like where the shops are in Manchester? Hope they don't sell cigs! :cool:

JoeHel

:rotfl: :rotfl: OMG the excuses are getting lamer!! So will smoking help your team equalise??! :rotfl: :rotfl:

BrickingIt

JoeHel wrote: »

:rotfl: :rotfl: OMG the excuses are getting lamer!! So will smoking help your team equalise??! :rotfl: :rotfl:

Are Wolves playing tonight?.

JoeHel

Don't know mate. I presumed you supported whoever Man City were playing against...

I'm a West Ham fan. If I had a ciggie every time THEY were scored against I'd have trouble finding time to do much else :rotfl:

melbury

nykmedia wrote: »

Hi Mel, I don't know if this is the right thread you're looking for or, indeed, if it's the one Bricky was referring to, but it's an interesting one, nonethelsee and distracts you from wanting a ciggie whilst having your cuppa

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=659481

NYK WACKY HINTS AND TIPS: Typing dyslexia does exist, you just need to read smoe fo my psots fro poorf. Remember to use the preview post option. (I MUST remember next time!)

Thanks Nyk, can't really see what all the fuss was about though. I think Bricky was just looking for any old excuse to light up one of the evil sticks! Bricky you MUST do better than this or you'll never stop. How many years have you smoked for anyway? It's been my constant buddy for 36 years and now I have abandoned it and hopefully won't resume that friendship ever again.

BrickingIt

JoeHel wrote: »

Don't know mate. I presumed you supported whoever Man City were playing against...

I'm a West Ham fan. If I had a ciggie every time THEY were scored against I'd have trouble finding time to do much else :rotfl:

I should have started to support Arsenal under George Graham the day I took up smoking and followed that approach.

BrickingIt

melbury wrote: »

Thanks Nyk, can't really see what all the fuss was about though. I think Bricky was just looking for any old excuse to light up one of the evil sticks! Bricky you MUST do better than this or you'll never stop. How many years have you smoked for anyway? It's been my constant buddy for 36 years and now I have abandoned it and hopefully won't resume that friendship ever again.

I have been smoking 23 yrs and I seriously would like to stop. I have stopped twice for 6 months. Other than that I smoke approx. 15 a day. Must do a bit of work, hence laters, thanks for the banter, i'll have another go tomorrow.

PS I'm just finishing a crossword, can someone help?, six down, Christopher (seven letters), a well known actor who appeared in Highlander. Any ideas?.

Chin up .

ZTD

Christophe Lambert

JoeHel

BrickingIt wrote: »

I have been smoking 23 yrs and I seriously would like to stop. I have stopped twice for 6 months. Other than that I smoke approx. 15 a day. Must do a bit of work, hence laters, thanks for the banter, i'll have another go tomorrow.

PS I'm just finishing a crossword, can someone help?, six down, Christopher (seven letters), a well known actor who appeared in Highlander. Any ideas?.

Chin up .

I think it's Christopher Lambert?

Something from Joel on WhyQuit.com for you to think about...

"What happens to some people is that when they are off smoking for a certain time period they start fixating on a cigarette. By that I mean they forget all the bad cigarettes they ever smoked, they forget the ones they smoked without ever really thinking about them even at the time they were being smoked, and they start to remember and focus on one good cigarette. It may be one they smoked 20 years earlier but it was a good one and they now want one again.

It's a common tactic for the ex-smokers to try and tell themselves that they do not really want that "good" cigarette. Well, the problem is, at that moment they really do want it. An internal debate erupts, "I want one, no I don't, one sounds great, no it doesn't, oh just one, not just one!" The problem is that if the ex-smoker's focus is on just "one" cigarette then there is no clear-cut winning side to the debate. The ex-smoker needs to change the internal discussion.

Don't say that you don’t want one when you do, rather acknowledge the desire but ask yourself, "Do I want all the other cigarettes that go with it. Then, do I want the package deal that goes with the others? The expense, social stigma, smell, health effects, possible loss of life. Do I want to go back to smoking, full-fledged, until it cripples and kills me?"

Stated like this it normally is not a back and forth debate. The answer will normally be, "No, I don’t want to smoke under these terms," and those are the only terms that a cigarette comes with.

Normally if viewed like this the debate is over almost immediately after being pulled into focus. Again, if the focus is only one, you can drive yourself nuts throughout the entire day. If you focus on the whole package deal, you will walk away from the moment relieved to still be smoke free and sufficiently reinforced to NEVER TAKE ANOTHER PUFF!"

Frugaldom

Bricky, why do you want to stop?

My reason is so simple that it annoys everyone :rotfl: