The Giving Up Smoking Thread!!

jo1972

I'm having a rough day of it today it doesn't seem to be getting any easier this time.

Glad to hear you're all doing ok, hopefully this is just a 24hour glitch I'm having.

I think what makes it worse is since the smoking ban everyone from the office opposite mines stands outside my window and smokes and although it stinks 90% of the time, the other 10% of the time it smells nice iykwim??

TNG

jo1972 wrote: »

I think what makes it worse is since the smoking ban everyone from the office opposite mines stands outside my window and smokes and although it stinks 90% of the time, the other 10% of the time it smells nice iykwim??

Hang in there jo. It will pass. Walk away from the window, get some water and take a few deep breaths (not at the same time, though lol). You don't want to undo all your good work, do you?

Can you ask them to move?

olive84

Hello everybody, I hope its not too late to join in. I've purposefully avoided anything to do with stopping smoking as I knew it would make me feel bad (did anybody else do that?) but today is the day I give up smoking. I'm going to be 23 next week, and I've smoked since I was 14. I'm now on 20+ a day and having just got a mortgage can seriously not afford to do it anymore. Plus it stinks and its unhealthy and all the rest of it. Went to Boots and my carbon monoxide levels were 19, which is not good. But the lady was really nice and she's given me 100 chewing gums for my first week, all for the price of a prescription! At work at the mo so haven't had time to read the whole thread, will do tonight. Just thought I will probably need the support! Hope everyone else is doing well, this isn't gonna be easy...

TNG

Hi Olive :hello: and welcome,

You should find these lovely people very supportive. if you need a 'bit' more reading, below is a link to squirreltufty's "Stop Smoking Index".

Best wishes and it'll be easier with the help of people here

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=311558

jo1972

Hi Olive and welcome :wave:

Of course it's not too late to join, some of us (me included) have fallen off the wagon and jumped back on again so I think it's a thread for when people are ready and if the worst happens then the support is still there.

Well done on making the decision to give up...have you actually given up today or is it tomorrow?

Have a read of the first post to this thread, there is a list of all the different websites that other members of this board has found useful.

Good luck and keep us posted!!

Jo.x

silverbullit

Had a wobbly day yesterday. I was helping to organise my employer's AGM so it was a very stressful day. I came close to having a ciggie but managed to resisit the temptation, and instead enjoyed a few puffs of my colleagues' passive smoke!

When I asked a colleague 'what do you think about passive smoking?', he replied 'I don't believe in it....i think they should buy their own!'

Keep up the good work folks!

*** One week, three days, 13 hours, 9 minutes and 58 seconds. 158 cigarettes not smoked, saving £35.05. Life saved: 13 hours, 10 minutes.***

newsgroup_monkey

olive84 wrote: »

Hello everybody, I hope its not too late to join in. I've purposefully avoided anything to do with stopping smoking as I knew it would make me feel bad (did anybody else do that?) but today is the day I give up smoking. I'm going to be 23 next week, and I've smoked since I was 14. I'm now on 20+ a day and having just got a mortgage can seriously not afford to do it anymore. Plus it stinks and its unhealthy and all the rest of it. Went to Boots and my carbon monoxide levels were 19, which is not good. But the lady was really nice and she's given me 100 chewing gums for my first week, all for the price of a prescription! At work at the mo so haven't had time to read the whole thread, will do tonight. Just thought I will probably need the support! Hope everyone else is doing well, this isn't gonna be easy...

Definitely not too late! Never too late!

I wish I'd done it at 23 (I started at 13-14 too). 35 now and it's had a profound effect on me in more than one way!

But I've quit now (non-smoker) and feel miles better for it.

Keep it up.

olive84

Ah thanks guys! I have 3 more cigs in my packet and then that's it. The Boots lady told me that if I had decided that was my last packet and I was going to quit when I had smoked them all then that was fine. So...by about 6pm tonight I will have finished them and that is that! My OH has started this off for me today, he called me this morning and told me he had decided to give up today. As we live together I think it will be much better if we quit together. Sadly my granny passed away in Feb from lung cancer, which then went to her brain, so since then I have been wanting to give up, but have not had the guts.
It sounds so stupid, but I've been really nervous about it, can't really imagine myself as a non smoker. I can imagine myself on a beach in the Maldives paid for with that extra £2000 a year I'll have though! So, 3 last cigarettes and that is officially it. (Hopefully!)

newsgroup_monkey

olive84 wrote: »

Ah thanks guys! I have 3 more cigs in my packet and then that's it. The Boots lady told me that if I had decided that was my last packet and I was going to quit when I had smoked them all then that was fine. So...by about 6pm tonight I will have finished them and that is that! My OH has started this off for me today, he called me this morning and told me he had decided to give up today. As we live together I think it will be much better if we quit together. Sadly my granny passed away in Feb from lung cancer, which then went to her brain, so since then I have been wanting to give up, but have not had the guts.
It sounds so stupid, but I've been really nervous about it, can't really imagine myself as a non smoker. I can imagine myself on a beach in the Maldives paid for with that extra £2000 a year I'll have though! So, 3 last cigarettes and that is officially it. (Hopefully!)

Olive,

Have you read Allen Carr or Neal Casey?
I'll give you a quick rundown......
3 weeks ago, I realised that I'd promised everyone I would quit on July 1st when the smoking ban came in. Wasn't convinced at all I'd ever do it, I'm not even sure I really wanted to quit (which of course is the biggest factor for success)

Got to June 30th and had read a few bits and bobs of the Allen Carr book.
Spent the whole of Saturday evening reading and smoking, smoking and reading. Finished at 11pm.

Honestly? Since 11pm on that Saturday night have barely even thought about seriously having a cigarette. Yeah, ok, there were a few "pangs" the first day, but when you realise after 3 days that they aren't physical and are actually psychological, it's easy!

If you don't believe me, just under 2 weeks ago, I had smoked 20 a day for over 20 years without a break, without even trying to quit and without ever imagining being a non-smoker.

Absolutely no reason to go back now........

Stu

olive84

I'm going to buy Allen Carr on my way home, definately. I know a couple of people that have given up after reading that book. Thanks for the recommendation, its good to know that it's worked for people, there's so much out there its hard to know what to choose in a way! At the pharmacy she was like, what do you want, 'inhalor, patches, gum, microtabs' and I was just thinking 'I want to be able to smoke!'. But I know I have to give up so went for the gum.