The Giving Up Smoking Thread!!

bev79

Thanks Emmy! Have ordered Neil Casey today as well, apparently that will really help. I read Alan carr a couple of years back but didnt think much of it tbh. If I can just get through this weekend I'll be so pleased with myself. I'm waiting to start hating the smell of smoke but I really love it, not the stale smoke thats on your clothes but when someone actually lights up a fag .... Is that weird??!!! Not been around any smokers this week but staying at OHs this weekend and he is a smoker.

emmy05

i agree with you there, OH still smokes, so im just wondering if ive managed to do it just as easy cos of that? as i thought id hate the smell tbh ... lol, if its weird, then ill join ya x

Lurkio

Hi emmy and Bev :wave: and WELL DONE to both of you!!!!!!

I stopped after reading Neil Casey's book. I do not (and did not) have any cravings at all. I'm sure it will help

emmy05

the only thing is, where my mates still smoke, i still have to join them when they go outside for a smoke, or i look a right lemon stood in the pub on my own LOL x

bev79

Ive got a night out on sunday I'm meant to be going on, debating whether to or not a) cos cant drink til tues and b) they'e smokers and I reckon I wont be able to resist. The worm is definitely turning, I don't want to smoke but at the moemnt can't say it feels much different! How do you cope outside with your mates? Maybe if you styed inside and went the bar or the loo you wouldnt be tempted and then the smell on them would be really obvious?

Boatie_Bird

emmy05 wrote: »

the only thing is, where my mates still smoke, i still have to join them when they go outside for a smoke, or i look a right lemon stood in the pub on my own LOL x

Maybe you'll be a trendsetter and once they see that you can do it, they'll be inspired to stop too!

emmy05

good point, lets hope so, ill keep my fingers crossed on that x

melbury

basilcat7 wrote: »

Woah there people !!! send me the link then !!

Well done MELBURY for 23 days- I know, my friends can't believe it either ! My sister rings me every day to ask me if I've smoked (yet)... she wasn't very encouraging at first as she's a smoker- but when I told her about my 'wobble' she said 'you can't give in now!! you are doing so well !!' She'll be next- lure them in...

LURKS- Woweeee !!! 18 months- this is for you on your anniversary - a massive well done !!! :bdaycake: :dance: :grouphug:

No Bas - it is 36 days (37 counting today).

melbury

Lurkio wrote: »

I know - if it wasn't done with so much friendliness and practicality it would get annoying


melbury - when I have a bit more time I will explain to you why AC is right. JoeHel has pretty much covered it (:rolleyes: ), but I'll add my two pennorth at some stage. Meantime, think about which part of smoking you 'enjoyed'. Taste? Smell? or wass it just that it scratched the itch?

Have a great Friday
Lurky

Please do explain to me Lurky - I look forward to it.;)

By the way, many congratulations on 18 months of being smoke free - that is great.

Lurkio

melbury wrote: »

Please do explain to me Lurky - I look forward to it.;)

By the way, many congratulations on 18 months of being smoke free - that is great.

I knew if I looked hard enough I'd find something from joeHel about it......


"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?"

Not quite what I was going to say, but I will - keep reminding me

There's something a few pages back (if I remember rightly) and some wise soul asked the question "Do you think non-smokers are jealous that they don't experience the 'enjoyment' that smokers do?" or something similar

And thanks for the congrats