The Giving Up Smoking Thread!!

feedumall

ah food the best medicine:D ,glad your feeling better naomi234 ,keep it up everyone in the words of mr grace(please dont let me be the only one who remembers )your all doing very well:T

Ali-OK

feedumall wrote: »

ah food the best medicine:D ,glad your feeling better naomi234 ,keep it up everyone in the words of mr grace(please dont let me be the only one who remembers )your all doing very well:T

You're in good company..."I'm free..." :rotfl:

Welcome Richard S, well done Naomi and Kirsty on the cutting down and to everyone who now doesn't smoke. That's me that is! :j

Day 8 - another gorgeous sunny day and have spent most of it working on the garden again, with a couple of trips out to visit family, etc.

Getting some strange side effects today - eye sight probs :eek: - seeing Counsellor tomorrow, so will defo discuss with him...if I can see my way there!

Richard_S

naomi234 wrote: »

Day 4 of champix for me, yes still feel hungry all the time, not like me at all as i hardly ever ate. Took my tablet this morning felt a bit grumpy before,:mad: biting OH head off for no reason, i hope this doesnt continue.

Hi richard welcome aboard.

Hi naomi,

Thank you, I feel a lot more confident this time than in any previous attempts. In fact, the longest I ever managed to quit was a previous Thread on here probably 18 months ago, but then we moved house and I was off-line for several weeks, and that was it.

Richard

Richard_S

kirstymccr wrote: »

Naomi - let me know how the two a day increase affects you, im worried as i had a bad headach day1 but iv been ok since, Only had 3 cigs this morning and i would normally of had about six:j

Welcome Richard

Hi Kirsty,

Champix does seem quite effective but I'm a bit reluctant to go to the Doctors.:eek: :eek: I'll see how the first week goes.:D

Richard

Richard_S

Ali-OK wrote: »

You're in good company..."I'm free..." :rotfl:

Welcome Richard S, well done Naomi and Kirsty on the cutting down and to everyone who now doesn't smoke. That's me that is! :j

Day 8 - another gorgeous sunny day and have spent most of it working on the garden again, with a couple of trips out to visit family, etc.

Getting some strange side effects today - eye sight probs :eek: - seeing Counsellor tomorrow, so will defo discuss with him...if I can see my way there!

Hi Ali,

That could be nicotine withdrawal. I went on a course last year that was sposored by work, and after 3/4 days I was having some really strange physical sensations. They weren't entirely unpleasant but quite unnerving.:eek: :eek:

I think it also depends on how many you smoke, and the way you smoke them. Some people can make a cigarette last for ages, whereas I smoke one in a couple of minutes, and then feel as though I need another.:eek:

Richard

Ali-OK

Thanks Richard S - I was like you, smoked them quite quick, so maybe it is the withdrawal side of things. Started with a muscle spasm at the side of my right eye, then vision wasn't so sharp, another spasm top of right cheek, another one top of left lip and then today my left eye has copied my right eye! Does say in the champix leaflet that it is a possible side effect.

Worrying bit is I'm due my sight test and contact lens check on Saturday and don't want to waste money if my vision is only changed temporarily.

In_Search_Of_Me

Just popping in o say hi - day 3 of not smoking for me! Am using lozenges (on prescription which in Wales are free!) so doing well! Hang in there - it does get better! I gave up for 6 months but stipdly started smoking at Christmas when I also started drinking so giving up both again!

Little_Pickle

morning all!!!!

I'm still here!!! got through the long weekend - yipee!!!

I only had one bad moment on the roof terrace (emotions wise) when Mr P tried to help me move something... I turned around to him and said 'NO!!!! I'll do it!!!!' in a really nasty tone...

Apart from that, I've been okay... eating far to much though.. Mr P likes it as I'm a quite a thin woman and now I have filled out a bit, my b00bies have got a bit bigger!!!.. hahahahaha!

How's everyone else doing? I'm so proud of myself!!!
Here are my stats so far...

5 days, 20 hours, 9 minutes and 32 seconds smoke free.

58 cigarettes not smoked.
£18.00 and 10 hours of your life saved.
Your quit date: 4/30/2008 1:00:00 PM

naomi234

Hi little pickle, well done, keep it up, day 5 of champix for me and have started to feel a little nauseus after i have taken the tablet, it only lasts about half an hour, then the hunger seems to come. I have put on acouple of pounds also in 5 days, weighing only 8 stone to start with my partner likes it also. Sorry if this is too much information but has anybody else been suffering with constpation?:o

Waspeze

Hi all .. well done on reaching another day smokefree

Naomi .. if you read the "instruction" thingy that comes with champix you'll see there's lots of different potential side effects ... for my part, I had really (and i mean really ) bad wind :eek: :eek:, the vivid dreams and also had a really bad pain behind my ribs for a while which got me very worried... they've all gone now though (1 month, 1 week smokefree) and am actually feeling really good about everything :).


If there's anything you're at all worried about then check with your doctor or nurse and i'm sure they'll be able to set your mind at ease .. remember your body and mind is undergoing a very big change at the moment with giving up the ciggies!