The Giving Up Smoking Thread!!

yellowmonkey

Not everyone is on during the day

Hi Ali :hello:

Cant help with Champix as I went cold turkey but good luck to everyone no matter how you are doing it.

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feedumall

oh ali your having a bad time:eek: ,could you take some time off ,i know not always practical but might help,as for the crying i cry at everything so does my one dd ,i have a theory that woman live longer because we dont bottle it up like the blokes.everything else could be champix i used patches for a little while.i didn't tell hubby i quit but we are all different:D .if you need to yell i am around during the day ,but get up at silly oclock so not at night .

kirstymccr

Hi all
Congrats LP:beer:

Richard - well done on going cold turkey - your half way there!

Naomi - Whats a dangle????

Im on day 5 of champix now - its going ok, I havent had any really noticeable side effects (touch wood) so far........ Im feeling quite positive about it - the tabs make me not want to smoke so it feels like im not giving up somethin i want if you know what i mean!

Keep strong everyone -

Ali-OK

Ahh..good eve yellowmonkey, feedumall and Kirsty! Woohoo, people in the evening :j

Anybody else find the evening the hardest part of the day for not smoking? Time can drag once dinner, etc, are done and I find myself at a loose end. I'm even going to bed earlier through boredom some nights! Wish I could get out during the eves, but once littlen is in bed, I'm a bit stuck (single parent and all that).

feedum - I've had a few rough bits, if only I could chop my head off I'd be fine :rotfl: . I think LeedsLass is topping the difficult times bit at the mo.

Kirsty - Know exactly what you mean about it not being like you're giving something up. I think that's the secret of Champix...I don't feel any different to before I smoked and I don't crave them, just miss them at certain times and when I'm doing nothing. Can't expect the earth in 10 days, after being a regular smoker for 25 years :eek: . Please, no-one add up how much that has cost me

Oh yes Naomi..what's a dangle. Another intrigued one here!

kirstymccr

Good evening Ali

Its great - im def a champix fan!!! - I'll have to keep the motivation for the actual stop date - bit worried i'll loose momentum.

Have a lovely sunny evening everyone

naomi234

A tangle are these here

http://www.thetangleshop.co.uk/userimages/procart2.htm

they are meant to keep your hands busy, i have seen people on the tv with them when they are giving up smoking. As i said mine came today and i couldnt stop playing with it. I got the metallic pink one because i love PINK.

I have definately been smoking less today on these bl**dy menthols.

Welcome leedslass and carlyt.

naomi234

Here is some more info here on tangles and quitting smoking:

http://www.thetangleshop.co.uk/page8.htm

Wont let me copy and paste the page.

doltage

LeedsLass wrote: »

(2nd attempt, first one disappeared,so mad :mad: )

Hi Guys,

Been a lurker for ages, decided it was time to register. Here goes.

I started on Champix just over 2 weeks ago now, stopped smoking last Thursday. Im just worried about how im feeling. Im really down all the time, crying at the stupidest thing (britains got talent for example) and once i start i cant stop. Ive lost all interest in everything, including in the bedroom department. Everything and everyone really gets on my nerves. My work is being affected, i got pulled for something horrendous today. Smoking is constantly on my mind. I gave up beacuse of the cost but if i could afford it, id smoke (that sounds terrible)

This is my 3rd attempt at quitting. First time i stopped for 10 months and felt great, like id never smoked before. 2nd time was around a year ago, used patches for about a month and felt as bad then as i do now. My partner, who has never smoked, keeps asking me whats wrong but feel i cant tell him its due to me stopping smoking, he wont understand. Its hard to explain it to someone who has never smoked. He thinks we have problems in our relationship because im so down and thinks its because of him why im like what i am.

We missed our cessation clinic this week because of the Bank Holiday. I couldnt tell my counsellor anyway, id just be a blubbering wreck.

I just want to feel normal, what ever that is. Do i just need to "pull myself together"? Is it all in my head??

Sorry for rambling.

LeedsLass, you've come to the right place!

First of all don't be listening to all those sexist weemin on this thread, it's not only the burds that blubber at Britain's Got Talent-some of us blokes do as well

You're understandably weepy, you're stopping smoking, something that has been a constant in your life when everything else changed and you're now trying to do without it, that's a massive upheaval and I can guarantee you that everyone has felt very down at losing that.

Smoking was a huge part of your life and suddenly it's not there, you're simply in a form of mourning for the loss of the fags-but you're doing brilliantly well, almost a week without smoking is fantastic and if you're not proud of you I know I am and many others on here will be as well, so well done :T

Stopping smoking is requires such a huge effort that it's natural that other things will take a back seat for a while, that doesn't mean you're abnormal or suddenly bad at your job, it's just your body trying to give you every chance to stop smoking. As time goes on and your confidence about not smoking grows so too will your confidence in other areas of you life. (Personally speaking my libido dropped after stopping smoking, but that's because I alway associated it with smoking, that's only cos I couldn't wait to get 'it' over with to have a fag :rotfl:)

As Ali-OK has already said let people know that you're stopping smoking. Shout it at the top of your smoke free lungs and if people think, as a lot of non-smokers do, that you should be able to quit with no problems gently put them right. The more people know how difficult it is the more people you will have on your side willing you on to do it.

If all else fails come on here and have a good old whinge to us, there's always a sympathetic viewer who will be able to help you out.

In the meantime have what's supposed to be a grouphug :grouphug:but it looks a bit more like somebody getting felt up!!




BTW, I want a tangle!

feedumall

i go to bed early as go to work before the dawn chorus:eek: ,a tangle oh i thought it was dangle wondered what a dangle was wondered if i was to old for one ,and would dh approve:eek: .if you need something to keep your hands busy ,try sketching ,anything around you will do ,relaxing to,only need paper,pencil,eraser and your away:D .ali ciggys cost a fortune but when you give up i think the first months money should be spent on nice things ,not just added to the pot,unless your like me and second month spent on me to.:o .i have told dh to blindfold me when passing art/stationers shops:o .

Ali-OK

I think I feel a tangle purchase coming on. Cost = packet of 10 cigs. A dangle did sound, well a bit rude! Glad that's cleared up!

Just been out with littlen...decided on a couple of things that I would treat myself to with the over £60 not spent on cigs. Could I find what I wanted in the colour I wanted? No! :mad: Nadda, absolutely nowt.

I wish I could draw. I can't draw a straight line with a ruler on lined paper :rotfl: But I can do nice graphs and things, so am setting up a not-smoked graph to keep me motivated with pretty colours and money and things .