The Giving Up Smoking Thread!!

Puzzledbubbles

Lula-Hula wrote: »

Hey Puzzy,

how weird, I was there too on saturday & had same thing happen only for me it was just before we went in cos I was so excited , it was either quick toke or squeal like a pig .

Like you say, it happened & now its time to move on. Do feel better knowing you were there & experiencing same as me - I'm still buzzing now

Well done everyone
Lula

How freeky, are you really me? you know the whole thing where somewhere you have a double, lol

im still buzzing too, had a fab time and really cant believe that i saw Jimmy Page and JPJ on stage!!!!!!!

I swear i nearly peed my pants.

Anyway, back on topic, lol

Back to doing ok today, according to my quit meter ive not smoked 319 fags!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ive still not annouced it to everyone, im thinking the way to go is face book since loads of people i know are on there (Along with a few i dont lol) and there are millions of people that will be surprised that ive kept it up.

Every day is different thou, tomorrow i might be desperate for a cig but i will do my best to resist!!!!!!!!

Puzzled xx

sunnyteacake

Hi all, im on day 11, 220 fags not smoked and 55 quid saved :j
Its getting easier but on days like today when its hot and sunny it would be lovely to sit in the garden in the evening with a glass of wine and a cigarette or two! So, instead i cut the grass and watered the plants and had a cup of tea indoors afterwards. I really miss times like that and it still makes me feel very on edge when i think im not going to have another cigarette for the rest of my life ...... very scary.

LEWKI

Hi everyone. I have not been on since Thursday because of work and weekend etc. Quick update for everyone

Friday - no problem
Saturday - no problem until....son's 5th birthday party. 20 lovely kids charging around house and garden having a great time. Couple of friends turned up with their slightly older children and we decided to get everyone back for a bbq (you know whats coming don't you ). Anyway, everyone was invited back for 8pm. 7.30 i head off to the local shop for a bottle of Pimms and some Rose. .....I'm sorry but I just had to get 10 of the blighters!!!!
Anyway, had a great evening and I smoked. I really enjoyed the night and I didn't really care

Anyway, the better news is that I finished the packet Sunday morning over coffee and fealt I had let myself down.

So instead of smoke free for 8 days, I am back to day 2. I have not bought any more. I am back on the patches. I am not a really a drinker, but when I do have a beer or a glass of wine (usually on a Friday or saturday night) - how do you enjoy it without smoking?

I am now worried that I will always want to smoke if I socialise

TNG

LEWKI wrote: »

Hi everyone. I have not been on since Thursday because of work and weekend etc. Quick update for everyone

Friday - no problem
Saturday - no problem until....son's 5th birthday party. 20 lovely kids charging around house and garden having a great time. Couple of friends turned up with their slightly older children and we decided to get everyone back for a bbq (you know whats coming don't you ). Anyway, everyone was invited back for 8pm. 7.30 i head off to the local shop for a bottle of Pimms and some Rose. .....I'm sorry but I just had to get 10 of the blighters!!!!
Anyway, had a great evening and I smoked. I really enjoyed the night and I didn't really care

Anyway, the better news is that I finished the packet Sunday morning over coffee and fealt I had let myself down.

So instead of smoke free for 8 days, I am back to day 2. I have not bought any more. I am back on the patches. I am not a really a drinker, but when I do have a beer or a glass of wine (usually on a Friday or saturday night) - how do you enjoy it without smoking?

I am now worried that I will always want to smoke if I socialise

Don't sweat it Lewki! pick yourself up, dust yourself down and climb back aboard

Hope everyone is ok today?

LittleMissMagic - How you getting on? I hope that no news is good news...... pm if you need......

wannabemoneysavingstar

Lewki,

Don't stress about it, only a little blip, dust yourself off and get back up. You'll be fine your back which is a good start. :T

Hope everyone else is doing well.

LEWKI

Hi Wanna, long time no speak. How did you get on through the weekend? How do you feel now that you are a week + in?

Keep going and best of luck!!

(I actually felt very guilty about smoking 10 on Saturday/Sunday morning and admitting it to all of you...but I am back on the wagon, no smokes since 11.00 am on Sunday Morning)

wannabemoneysavingstar

Am still here and feel better for not smoking, but Friday and Saturday were easy as I was sick as a pig couldn't even get out of bed. Saying that though before I probably would have managed to crawl down the stairs to the garden to have a smoke and then feel even worse than I did before. :rotfl:

8 days not smoke (145 cigs OMG:eek:)

It does get easier, but this is about the 10th time Ive tried to stop, and still am only a week in.

Good luck Lewki, here if you want to ramble, that seemed to work well last week.

*MF*

Day 14 or day 3

LEWKI ... you just made it easier for me, same identical situation, friends round, bbq etc, beer etc flowing, everyone having a great time - only difference I didn't buy any, got them from a friend (5 over the course of an afternoon, and very late night.)

I tell you tho' I don't feel guilty or upset - it confirmed to me what i have always known - i enjoy smoking, many others on here have confirmed that as well, but that is not the point perhaps, I am giving up that enjoyment, I don't need it, I will miss it for sure, but I am already past missing the first cigarette of the day, it was habit, nothing more, and many of the other cigs I smoked were just that - a habit.

So for me, smoking those 5 cigarettes was more of a goodbye, that's it!

So day 14 or day 3? Doesn't matter to me tbh - that was it, finished.

wannabemoneysavingstar

*MF* wrote: »

Day 14 or day 3

LEWKI ... you just made it easier for me, same identical situation, friends round, bbq etc, beer etc flowing, everyone having a great time - only difference I didn't buy any, got them from a friend (5 over the course of an afternoon, and very late night.)

I tell you tho' I don't feel guilty or upset - it confirmed to me what i have always known - i enjoy smoking, many others on here have confirmed that as well, but that is not the point perhaps, I am giving up that enjoyment, I don't need it, I will miss it for sure, but I am already past missing the first cigarette of the day, it was habit, nothing more, and many of the other cigs I smoked were just that - a habit.

So for me, smoking those 5 cigarettes was more of a goodbye, that's it!

So day 14 or day 3? Doesn't matter to me tbh - that was it, finished.

Well said.... :T

LEWKI

Very strange situation I am finding myself in....I don't want/need to smoke at work or travelling to work in the car. I appear to be well over that situation which is great. this time last week I was ranting on here every hour, now it appears every 2 hours lol
Going to be a good test tonight, dropping in to see a very good friend who has returned to UK for a flying visit - he smokes - I dont

I will be driving so no alcohol involved - should make it easier!