The Giving Up Smoking Thread!!

olive84

Hi Guys, I know I joined late but I'm still here! :hello: It will have been 3 weeks on Thursday and its going ok. Me and the OH have just moved in to a new flat, and the money that we would have been spending on cigs (about £350-400) a month :eek: is now being spent on lovely things for our new home. I know my OH is finding it harder than me at the moment, and he is definately drinking more, so I will have to try and help him reduce that next, otherwise he's just replaced one vice with another! Well done IDA for helping deal with a scary situation, I saw a little boy get runover a few months ago and it was so awful, and well done Jo for improvising with the patches instead of buying cigarettes!

I really noticed it on Saturday when I was quite ill. If I was still smoking I would have got dressed and gone out for cigs, feeling like crap, and spent the day feeling ill in a smoky room. Now at least I could feel rubbish in my PJs all day in a nice clean room! A wierd thing to notice but smoking really does effect everything you do. Its good not to be controlled by that anymore!

Other things that are good:

Not having to spend time and effort trying to find a newsie all the time
Not having to ask non smoker friends if we can sit outside, when the weather really isn't good enough
Having nice smelling hair and clothes
Coming home to a nice smelling house
No more sore throat and burnt feeling tongue
No more 'smoking hangovers' where the night before you smoked a packet which makes you fell much worse than any amount of alcohol
Not worrying about whether you've got cash for cigs all the time
Not getting evil looks from passers by when you have a cig break on the pavement at work and the smoke goes near them
Smelling smoke from other people and thinking that actually it doesn't smell very nice and realising you might be able to actually give up
Having a £2,000 a year tax-free pay rise :j
Being able to concentrate on what you're doing without thinking about going and having a cig when your finished, eg eating, cleaning, working!

Hope this keeps people motivated. Keep it up everybody :T

jo1972

olive84 wrote: »

Having a £2,000 a year tax-free pay rise :j

I LOVE this tip!! I'm going to think of that one all the time now!!

jo1972

Ok so I've just updated the first post on this thread with a list taken from Olive and ILA posts about the good things when you've stopped smoking. If anyone can think of anything else let me know and I'll add it on!

jet77

Hi,

I fell off the wagon - which is why I haven't been on.

Anyway............I have now got the Allen Carrs Easy Way for Women to Stop Smoking from the library and am going to get stuck into it tonight. I will let you know how I get on tomorrow.

Luv Jxx

jo1972

Hi Jet,

Don't worry, happens to all of us at some point! If it was easy to do then we wouldn't all bother writing in a thread about it! Good for you for trying again, it does get easier eventually you've just gotta keep yourself busy, not become complacent, and expect it to be difficult so you don't get any nasty surprises!

Scroll back to the page before this and see the link to the max something website, hold on lemme go get it - that'll be easier for you!!


:whistle:

Ok, I'm back, here's the link (thank you robonz ), if you feel brave and really want to kick start your quitting, have a look at the smoking video. It's complete yuck, deffo don't watch it just before, during or just after you've eaten but everytime I have a craving I just imagine in my head the images on there!!

http://www.maxkirsten.com/store/stopsmoking.asp

Good luck and speak to you soon, keep us updated - good or bad news!

Jo.x

jo1972

I had to pop into my neighbours house this morning, she's a smoker. She'd only just got up out of bed and hadn't smoked yet but her house absolutely reeked of fags eurgh!!

jo1972

Ok time to own up....I stumbled completely last week and managed to smoke 20 fags in 2 days :eek: which isn't a lot for a smoker but quite a lot for a given up one!

I didn't say anything till now cos I wanted to get a few days under my belt, rather than keep coming on here saying 'oh I feel terrible', 'I'm gonna do it again tomorrow' etc.etc. I quit on 26th July, day 6 today and feeling good! This time it's for keeps, I gotta grow up and see it for what it is, being weak and not in control of my own mind! I think I shall count the days in my sig so I will feel less tempted next time.

Right got that off my chest.

Tootie_Fruity

jo1972 wrote: »

Ok time to own up....I stumbled completely last week and managed to smoke 20 fags in 2 days :eek: which isn't a lot for a smoker but quite a lot for a given up one!

I didn't say anything till now cos I wanted to get a few days under my belt, rather than keep coming on here saying 'oh I feel terrible', 'I'm gonna do it again tomorrow' etc.etc. I quit on 26th July, day 6 today and feeling good! This time it's for keeps, I gotta grow up and see it for what it is, being weak and not in control of my own mind! I think I shall count the days in my sig so I will feel less tempted next time.

Right got that off my chest.

Just think - that's another fiver gone up in smoke.

in_debt_again_but_dealing_with_it

Well done Jo - I have a good feeling for you this time!! Positive vibes heading your way hon!! I must admit I like my sig and I love updating it - I guess I'll know I'm "there" when I don't need to update it anymore - in the meantime it helps so I'll keep it - definately recommend it!
Beginning to feel really good about the quit although I think that has more to do with it being the "right" time of the month - you know I'm in my positive phase!! Bl***dy cycle just wish I could be in a good mood all the time - lol.
Anyway waffle over!
love and hugs
IDA
x

FrugalJo

Confession time here too. I'm still struggling.
All my good intentions - including the contract with my son have gone in the ashtray, feel worse for letting him down. Even though he hasn't 'caught' me, talk about role reversal !
On about 5 a day, each one does nothing for me and I don't enjoy them. I've been trying to stop since March.
I've been back on it for a year after an amazingly easy 4 months of not smoking.
Don't want patches - psoriasis flares up on them, hate the gum. Just need to get the nicotine monster out of my head.