The Giving Up Smoking Thread!!

Ali-OK

Evening all :wave:

Good to hear how everyone is doing. I had a good day yesterday and dropped another few ciggies, but today hasn't quite gone to plan. Still going out with my colleagus for a ciggie, so need to sort this now before quit day. Think I'll take some nibbles and fruit and still go out for the social banter, but not have a ciggie each time. I'm now the slowest smoker as I'm not getting the hit from them and not enjoying them and my colleagues noticed this, so have told them and they're going to support my quit :T

Have pretty much worked out the 'danger' times for wanting one the most, so will be working on a replacement routine plan for those tonight.

Have my carbon monoxide test/reading tomorrow, and it should be down by 50% on 2 weeks ago. Will report back tomorrow eve.

feedumall

evening all ,hope all are fine ,day 24 for me tomorrow:j it will soon be my month :j ,then i can tell family and throw ciggs away ,untill then 18 ciggs on the table la la la ,115 pounds saved,480 ciggs not smoked:eek: that is a disgusting amount of ciggys:eek: .i am so clever not smoking them:D

ZTD

Have people seen this?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7355353.stm

Adzha

ZTD wrote: »

Have people seen this?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7355353.stm

Oh I have an excuse then

Some drunk !!!!!!! nicked my lighter on Sunday :mad:

baccyman

good to see that so many of you are managing to quit the weed and being successfull try to keep up the good work, i know from personal experiance that it is not easy but if you stick with it you can succeed.
i used to smoke 60 a day that was 7 years ago and when i gave up it was because i did not fancy going on a flight to America without a ciggie for 8-9 hours as i had done this the year previous.
anyway i went to my doctor to get help with giving up and he put me on a course of zyban and that really helped me to give up.
even after 7 years of not smoking i still get the odd moment when i am doing something and i think i could do with a ciggie but that just lasts for a few seconds and the urge has gone,
so it is a constant fight but it can be won and in the end you will feel better for it both in health and in wealth,
keep up the fight and good luck to you all.

redkelly

Hi All,

Just a quick update as today was day 3!!! not so bad two real cravings today but thats all was quite surprised how well today has gone.

Do you know I can believe how much you can get done when you don't waste your life smoking....Have no washing, no ironing, the house is clean and tidy and been at work all day....and took the dogs for a long walk.
How did I ever find the time before.

The only thing I am dreading is going to bed...can't sleep.
Just had bath and off to give it a try. Wish me luck!:o

My_Fathers_Daughter

redkelly - you can come and do my ironing if you need something to keep you occupied

My sleep patterns still aren't great but what the h3ll, it is a lot better than smoking.

Keep it up everyone!

Blackruby

Hello, back again. Cold turkey failed me so yesterday morning I went down to a smoking cessation drop in and got myself an inhalator which I have begun using to cut down today, hoping to start using it full time tommorow. We are getting there, at the very least.

Blackruby

Hello, I think sharing funny (but also quite sad) stories about what we used to do when we were smokers helps.

I have a weekend job in a retail shop, I'm in all day and get a couple of 15m breaks and an hour dinner. For my 15m breaks I used to put a lighter and a cig in my bra so I could run down, smoke it, then get back up.

One afternoon, the place is pure packed and I am running around trying to keep the place tidy when I feel something fall out my shirt, it's my cig and this lady with a pram is about to run right over it. The next bit is a direct quote from me.

'Ah! Please don't run over my cig! Please, please, please!'

How god damn pathetic did I sound? Oh well, it's only coz I knew that was the only cig I was going to be able to smoke in the next 5 hours, if it had been destroyed, I would have cried. Will be looking forward to not having to do that anymore, and also no longer making a huge 'clang' noise when my zippo falls out my shirt.

feedumall

hi all another day in smoke free city:D .went to town yesteday saw them all huddled in the rain having a ciggy break:eek: that was me,but no more:D .queing up to buy ciggs in my dinner break smoking said ciggys so no tome to eat:o