The Giving Up Smoking Thread!!

Adzha

Snow Patrol - Run reminds me how smokers become addicted so fast.

Light up, light up
As if you have a choice

feedumall

just a quick hi ,well told them at lunch there faces:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: ,they all said i should spend money on myself duly noted:D ,they are proud of me ,not as proud as i am of myself oh the satisfaction of a childish na na na na na:p .hubby had to admit i was as nice as pie:D ,now what can i do next:D

iwanttosavemoney2008

ok not doing well at all today smoked 10 already but i am goin thru the finances so think im doing well considering just found out how much we really owe (check out signature)
will do better tomorrow

suki1964

heart_free wrote: »

Hi all

People look me strange when I ask the following question, but I'm serious!!

What do non-smokers DO???

I'm on my 4th day of champix, and already seeing an effect on how much I smoke. My cut off day for the ciggies is Friday, but might even give up before then! The problem is the habit. When I sit down for 10 minutes and watch TV I normally have a smoke, or if I'm chatting to friends or on the phone I smoke, When I read I smoke, and so on. So what do I do when I don't smoke? Not sure if you understand what I mean, but could really do with some help!!!

I know what you mean, I was the exact same but you do slowly stop associating the action with smoking. Until then its a crave moment and you just grit your teeth and breath through it. The more you do the action without smoking the easier it becomes - just takes a while.

My stop smoking day was jan 13th with champix and tbh apart from a few tough days around the month mark its been really easy. The only smokes I still miss are the ones where everything is done and I want my reward, but even those are now just fleeting thoughts

Good luck

redkelly

Feedumall you should buy yourself something nice..after all a whole month of not smoking, how did they not guess???? Amazing.....:j :T :j :T :j :T :j

Well I am about to finish day 9 and my OH said I have not been too bad today!!!! the bloody cheek if he didn't spend all his time winding me up.....I would never get moody.:mad:
Not too bad at all really have not put the patch on for 3 days they just left horrible red marks so just cold turkey now...have saved nearly £42.00 pounds and not smoked 180 fags.....:A

feedumall

morning all month today:j ,that's 600 ciggs not smoked:eek: ,145 pounds not gone up in smoke .18 ciggs on the table:rolleyes: can throw them away now but .quite like the ciggs on table song la la la

ageing_biker

morning ex smelly people, well done feedum for your month and you rk for 9 days your well on your way

My_Fathers_Daughter

feedum that's fab - I was thinking about you yesterday :T ...although I thought you had been spending the money on new brushes anyway

I spent the weekend in Somerset with a friend doing active stuff. She said she thought I would never be able to stop and was very proud of me for doing 6 weeks :A and I managed the long walks without being as knackered as I usually am!

redkelly - the patches used to leave marks on me too - so after about 9 days or so I started to cut down on the amount of time I was wearing them. Then just making sure that I always had one with me 'just in case' and even sticking them in the back pocket of my jeans so it felt like I was wearing one even though I wasn't
Whatever works for you but don't let the fact that they make your skin go a bit red for a few days give you an excuse to go back to the fags

yellowmonkey

Hi

Just popping in to say hello :hello: and keep up the good work everyone.

Have a good day all

Ta Ta

ym

Waspeze

Morning all.. hope we all had a good smokefree weekend :beer:

Bit confused though... is it my monthiversary today or tomorrow?

Saw the nurse again today .. blew another 1 (that sounds a bit wrong.. :rolleyes: ), she said she'd see me in a month and hopefully stop the champix then as she thought i was doing really well, that'll have been about 11 weeks :cool:

Will be glad about that .. they have worked wonders but on saturday I left a BBQ early coz I hadn't brought the pills out and wanted to get back to make sure I took it... in hindsight I should have just stayed out and not taken it but at the time it was all I could think of