The Giving Up Smoking Thread!!

melbury

Hello everyone,

Well done to all of you for being so good. I have just come up to post a note on here because I am having a drink and that is when I REALLY MISS the ciggie. Drink and ciggies just made for each other. Don't any of you find that drinks taste entirely different without the ciggie? I know a lot of people will say they taste better, but I don't know, that smokey taste used to mingle very nicely. Please just tell me to shut up.

Will go down again now and finish my drink :beer:

15 days without now :eek: YIKES

melbury

viv0147 wrote: »

Hi everyone good luck on your quest to become Non-smokers I found the above book a great help I bought the book but it is also on the net for a free download

We can't ever be non-smokers only ex-smokers according to the Allen Carr book I am reading and there is a big difference. As ex-smokers we are only ever a heartbeat away from lapsing back into the evil habit whereas non-smokers have NEVER succumbed to the filthy disgusting habit.

System

I'm having a nightmare trying to give up smoking, My first attempt was Nicorette inhalator, Useless piece of equipment, The next was Paul McKenna's stop smoking now, Again not much use as I don't believe it hypnotised me at all. The next was Allen Carr's Easy Way to stop smoking, I've been listening to it all week on my iPod and again its doing no good. I feel so odd as if you read the reviews here http://www.amazon.co.uk/Allen-Carrs-Easy-Stop-Smoking/dp/0140277633 it is over 90% positive, I mean why can't I quit, Its really frustrating me

melbury

nirelandguy wrote: »

I'm having a nightmare trying to give up smoking, My first attempt was Nicorette inhalator, Useless piece of equipment, The next was Paul McKenna's stop smoking now, Again not much use as I don't believe it hypnotised me at all. The next was Allen Carr's Easy Way to stop smoking, I've been listening to it all week on my iPod and again its doing no good. I feel so odd as if you read the reviews here http://www.amazon.co.uk/Allen-Carrs-Easy-Stop-Smoking/dp/0140277633 it is over 90% positive, I mean why can't I quit, Its really frustrating me

The only way you will quit is if YOU REALLY WANT TO, not just because you feel you should. The only way to do it is completely 100% for yourself (not anybody else) and get that idea right in your head. Best really to just do it cold turkey - if you want to stop you will, if you don't you won't.

Just try and keep imagining tennis ball sized tumours in your lungs!

System

melbury wrote: »

The only way you will quit is if YOU REALLY WANT TO, not just because you feel you should. The only way to do it is completely 100% for yourself (not anybody else) and get that idea right in your head. Best really to just do it cold turkey - if you want to stop you will, if you don't you won't.

Just try and keep imagining tennis ball sized tumours in your lungs!

Thats it, Its something I should do but something I don't want to. Allen Carr goes on about smokers don't enjoy smoking, I can honestly say I do I need some type of leverage that will make me say to myself "Right im never going to smoke again"

MJay

Hi Nire

I stopped (once) with Allen Carr and once with the book listed below....

Ok, Ok I know, here I am again... But I do believe in the maxim "never give up giving up..." and I hope this time it will take... I found a lot much useful stuff that has stayed with me in the book below but cannot help but agree with Mel, you have to WANT to...

Try something else if what you have done hasn't worked... The more you feel you are 'depriving' yourself, the more you undermine yourself.

Just have another go until it takes...!! Me? Back at day ten (nearly 11) as a non-smoker again but I AM back trying...

G'Luck..

How to Stop Smoking and Stay Stopped for Good (Positive Health) (Paperback)
by Gillian Riley

basilcat7

hi all having a drink too and it's so hard.................... really bad today but will keep going xx good luck all x

tattycath

Hi Basilcat. Sometimes it is difficult in the beginning. But just look how far you have come, you are on your 11th day-that's fabulous, a real achievement. You should pat yourself on the back for that. And look how well you have coped!!! A little weed should not have the power to be a bully-and unfortunately I haven't had a drink-how very sad!!! :rotfl:Keep going. we're all with you and we're all very proud of you too!!!

JoeHel

nirelandguy wrote: »

Thats it, Its something I should do but something I don't want to. Allen Carr goes on about smokers don't enjoy smoking, I can honestly say I do I need some type of leverage that will make me say to myself "Right im never going to smoke again"

Hi nirelandguy,

I read the Allen Carr book and it got me about 80% of the way there but I have to say it didn't do the trick completely. It was only when I logged on to WhyQuit.com and read some of the stuff on there that something in my head just "clicked" and I went cold turkey there and then. Haven't touched (or wanted) a ciggie since.

One section of WhyQuit.com (link below) lists all the excuses we come up with to carry on smoking. Your excuse of "I enjoy smoking" is answered with this....

"This may be the most deeply engrained rationalization of all as it has a solid basis in the following flawed denial logic. "I don't do things that I don't like to do." "I smoke lots and lots of cigarettes." "Therefore, I must really enjoy smoking," instead of the correct conclusion, "therefore, I must really be chemically addicted to smoking nicotine." Did you enjoy being the unaddicted "you" or have you forgotten what it was like to live comfortably inside a mind that does not crave for nicotine? If you cannot remember what it was like being "you" then what basis do you have for honest comparison? If you truly enjoyed being addicted to nicotine then why are you here reading these words? Is it that you liked smoking or that you liked not having to experience what occurred when you didn't smoke - withdrawal? Studies have long ranked nicotine as a more addictive substance than either heroin or cocaine. In fact, cocaine's generally recognized addiction rate among regular users is 15% while nicotine's addiction rate of over 70% is at least five times as great. Imagine convincing your mind that it " likes " being addicted to the drug that addiction scientists now rank as the most addictive substance on all of planet earth. We are nicotine addicts . A pack a day smoker smokes 7,300 cigarettes each and every year. How many of your last 7,300 nicotine fixes did you really enjoy ? How many of the next 7,300 will bring tremendous joy to your life? Isn't it time to be honest?"

The rest of our excuses can be found here... Mine used to be that it helped reduce my stress levels. I've never been so calm since I quit and got nicotine out of my system!

http://whyquit.com/whyquit/A_NicodemonsLies.html

And this may help too... It's not "gross" in that it's not a picture of a diseased lung or anything, but it is quite distressing in that this man was reduced to this condition in just 9 weeks, at the ripe old age of 34... Just as distressing is how his wife and child must be feeling to witness his deterioration. The photo was taken on the day he died.

http://whyquit.com/whyquit/BryanLeeCurtis.html

JoeHel

The one thing that made me desperate to quit after 22 years of 30 a day was the sudden realisation that I was a drug addict. Plain and simple. I was addicted to a drug that kills more people than all Class A drugs, alcohol, road accidents, AIDS - more than the lot put together. If you injected the quantity of nicotine in one cigarette directly into your bloodstream you would be dead.

There are a lot of people in denial but the cold hard truth is that the only reason anybody smokes is nicotine addiction. Yes, even the social smokers. What other reason could there possibly be? It tastes foul, smells revolting, costs a fortune and kills you. There are NO positives.

Until reading it on this thread, the only time I'd ever read anyone denying nicotine addiction existed was the tobacco company executives. In the secret documents displayed on WhyQuit.com, however, they acknowledge that if they were made to remove nicotine from cigarettes they might as well sell their porsches and posh houses because people would STOP smoking. Now why would that be, if the act of smoking alone is such a pleasure?!

The problem is we make so many associations in our own heads about the miracle properties of smoking. A year ago on Big Brother the contestants ran out of ciggies and attempted to roll grass in newspaper and smoke it, purely to recreate that action. Obviously it didn't "hit the spot". Wonder why?!