The Giving Up Smoking Thread!!

LEWKI

Morning everyone. Hello Cheaps, good luck and welcome along. Its great so many of us doing this together - it really has helped me no end. Only smokers understand how difficult it is to quit so virtual moral support is amazing!!

My other good news is that I have transferred all of my debt to Virgin CC at 0%. It will look very nasty on the first statement but it is 0% for 15 months. The plan is to pay the minimum balance and save like mad to pay the lot off. The main aim is to ensure we do not go overdrawn again. I will actaully save myself over £1000 in interst charges in the first 12 months alone - why did I not do this last year - why did I take a bank loan???
Oh well lesson learnt. The non smoking is to have cash in my pocket/bank - this will be around £180/month

doltage

sunnyteacake wrote: »

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:T That's fantastic:T you're creeping up on the two week mark and hopefully you're feeling very proud of yourself, two weeks without smoking is quite an achievement, take confidence from the past two weeks and use that confidence in your fight against smoking!

Every minute you spend as a non-smoker is another metaphorical brick in the prison we're putting cigarettes, how satisfying is that after they kept us enslaved for so long. (is it too early for pop-philosophy )

Hopefully everyone else is doing as well, great to see new usernames popping along regularly, stick with it and you too will be a non smoker!

TNG

REDMADCURLS wrote: »

Just bought the Allen Carr book on ebay - still only smoked one - which I hate saying on here as you are all much better than me and not smoking at all

Don't worry, Red. Everyone is at different stages of stopping and we all understand.

No one is better or worse than you on here

Post away.......;)

Hawthorn

Redmadcurls, you're doing fantastically. One cigarette. So one cigarette. Compared to what you were smoking? Thats a HECK of an achievement. Keep it up
My husband is doing well too. He smoked 20 a day.....he bought a packet of tobacco on monday (25g) and he still has some left so he's saved himself a
pack a day too! He's doing great. He's been smoking for 22 years. I'm proud of him.
So, according to my meter today, I have saved so far £8.63 p. Yeehaa. I can afford a chinese now. (just kidding) the money is staying in my account, and when I reach a tenner, I'm going to pay it off a bill. Doesn't matter which one. Just randomly pay it off.

LEWKI

Well done evryone - thats anothe half day of no smoking achieved.

Good luck with the book Red It is excellent - I read it whilst wearing my patch and gnawing my pen!!

We are away camping this weekend. This should hopefully keep we away from the saturday night ciggies Please let the weather be good in Devon!!

feedumall

hi all ,red whatever it takes i'm sure you will get there.i dont post so much now as a non smoker:D :j :j ,but like to see lots of new members to the best club in town,so far 2 months 13 days smoke free:j :j ,360 pounds not wasted ,1,460 ciggs not smoked:eek: ,wont be counting much longer the maths is getting to hard:o .dont miss them anymore ,just feel liberated now ,keep going all ,it really is a great thing you are doing:D :T :T ps notice not wasted, not 360 pounds saved,had lots of nice things as a incentive:D

LEWKI

Crikey - i'm am finding it tougher today! I am 11 days in (not counting the 4 ciggies I had on Satuday night - I feel V guilty over that!)

I am back in the office with colleague who gave up with me - together we are finding it hard. Might be back on here to rant a bit!!

Hawthorn

I'm finding it a wee bit tougher this afternoon. Then again, I have two of my kids off sick from school (8 and 4) and my friends two kids (2 and 4) so it's a wee bit hectic in here LOL.

I will stay sane.

Mind you, I'm also weaning myself off medication so we can try for a baby, and that isn't helping at the moment. I feel a bit woozy.

LEWKI

Wow - hands full there Hawthorn. Kettle on, and plenty of messaging to get you through!
Keep going - you have done it before
Hope you fell better soon

Hawthorn

I'm still puzzling over budgets LEWKI LOL. I'm still waiting on my hub to get details from work. He doesn't get wage slips, per se, but its all on computer and his password isn't working, so until I get that, I'm not 100% certain where I am.
I filled in that budget planner though and OMG. The amount we waste is atrocious.

It's no good. I have to sell my husband, dog and kids. I do.