The Giving Up Smoking Thread!!

jasonjuicer

I commend all you people that are quitting smoking. It is expensive and hurts everyone. Good Job!

Sue-UU

LEWKI wrote: »

Uttt owwww....I am having bizarre dreams with my patches and wanna bursting through shirt could be there tonight :rotfl: :rotfl:

Chances are, she will being chased by my 5 year old son who I dreamt the other night had come home from school on a moped????

I guess the time to worry is when he's chasing you Lewki! I hope your day went well.

Very well done happymumof3, you're doing so well and sounding so positive, great going!

Congratulations in such a great achievement silverbullit that'll be so good for the others to read and KNOW they too can do it!

Sue.

Hawthorn

Gah. I'm struggling tonight. I've got a pounding headache, and I itch all over. I feel really irritated. I can't sleep either grrrr.

Sue-UU

Hi Hawthorn,

Sorry to hear that, but the headache can often be as a result of quitting, often the stress of it all to I'm inclined to think. The sleeplessness is definately all part of quitting and will soon pass - I promise you!

Are you on the patches? Sorry, I can't remember at the mo, but if you are then the itching could be due to them, or any other of the quitting formulas. If you're going 'cold turkey' then it could simply be all to do with just quitting and stress.

Ride the storm Hawthorn, you're in the infancy (so to speak) of it all and your body is getting used to a really big change. This will all be short-lived, the benefits will be life-changing and last the rest of your life!

Resist and keep strong! Try a bath/shower and relax then have a drinking chocolate.

All the best.

Sue

Hawthorn

Thanks Sue.

I survived it. Yay. LOL.
I'm still itching like crazy today though, and I'm going cold turkey. Strange.

Naomim

Hi All :hello:

I'm back :rolleyes2 I've been very bad and having 10 a day but then yesterday I realised my wages hadn't even cleared my overdraft so now I really am stopping. I've not had one since about 9pm last night :T Hopefully DH is going to follow my lead as he keeps on about going on holiday! :rotfl:

Naomi x

feedumall

hi all welcome back naomim those ciggs are just so expensive now :eek: ,if you both smoke and give up you will save holiday fund without saving:D ,i am singing a little song today happy birthday to me happy birthday smoke free :j ,i can spend my lovely birthday money on lovely new trainers etc ,instead of 200 ciggs:o ,i am very very old today:D 51 but dont tell anyone:D

ageing_biker

you are naughty naomi, dont think about the money saving side of not smoking as you wont quit, you must really want to quit for yourself, I dont know if anyone else thought this but for me it was right im approaching my fifties and I want to do everything I can to live as long as poss, so the fags had to go, I dont know how old you are, I presume much younger and I never thought about it in this way before, I feel so much better for it and wish I'd done it years ago, any other half centurians feel this way

ageing_biker

mornin feedie, older than me but not much

Naomim

To be honest Ageing Biker I have wanted to quit properly since January. I was getting so frustrated with myself as I knew I could do it but seemed to have lost the willpower. I went the to Allen Carr Easyway clinic 3 times between Feb - May and tried patches (a bit half hearted on that one). Somehow though, something just seems to have shifted (I think) and I know I can do it. I feel the financial pressure being there does help even if it is only a little bit but as you say, you have to want to quit too.

No doubt I'll be posting on here when the cravings are bad!

Naomi x

Psss. I'm 34