The Giving Up Smoking Thread!!

feedumall

evening all ,how great is this thread all you newbies on the road to quitting:j :j :j ,well done one and all it gets better i promise:D, about 100 days smoke free:T 500 pounds saved ,2,000 ciggs not smoked how proud do i feel,and you will all be saying the same soon:j love feed x

ageing_biker

evening feedie, nearly 5 months now hardly ever think about it, stick it out all the new quitters, has anyone else noticed since the ban came in, how the people standing outside smoking look sort of furtive like they are doing something naughty

doltage

jenkellyxx wrote: »

Thanks, i have an appointment at the docs on friday so gonna get them to assist me with this!! Eeeshk i wish i didn't smoke!! x

:j :T First off congrats on being pregnant :T :j

Hopefully you'll be able to make it as far as Friday without smoking, if you do I would refuse any offer of nicotine replacement therapy as all nicotine should have left your body and it'll just be physical cravings which are difficult but which are manageable!

I'll give a proper reply later when I've got more time on my hands!

LEWKI

Hi all and thanks for the queries about how I am doing, the answer is ........

Great!!

Smoke free weekend but still dependant on patches. I now take them off when I have a shower at night so do not get the weird dreams anymore

To be honest the weekend was easy because we did not really socialise, in fact I had no alcohol at all and haven't since the previous weekend. So fingers crossed I am getting there are on that front

Wanna - I am so pleased that you are going strong - great news and well done everyone else that has just started or who drops back here to give updates - I would never have got this far without this site!!

PS -Congrats Jenkelly but sorry cant help on that front - I can honestly sat I have never been pregnant

marjem

Hi everyone, only one day to go before I've hit the four weeks mark and on the 12th it will be a whole month. Although I have tried to be positive from the start that I would never go back to smoking, I have surprised myself as at one time I would never have thought I could have gone this long without smoking. Funnily enough I now wonder how I managed to smoke nearly twenty a day !!!
Still on the gum but only when things feel a bit rough. Have been having quite a bit of stress one way and another (typically things got bad just as I had completed week one) but the good news is that whenever I have been tempted I've talked myself out of it by telling myself that if I started to smoke again and undid all my effort so far I would just make a bad situation worse.

Jankelly, congrats on the pregnancy, luckily I hadn't started smoking until after I had my child so didn't have your dilemma. I have mentioned the Paul McKenna book and CD is a previous post. As I said in that, I wouldn't try to claim it stopped me from smoking completely, as I still needed the gum, but the CD is very relaxing and it lasts for about 25 mins. I used it the first two weeks if I got stressed in the evening at the time I would have smoked after a meal. By the time the CD had finished, I felt much more relaxed and had occupied myself during the craving. I got mine from Asda as they sell it at less than RRP. Maybe that could be an NRT free way for you to try.

This forum has helped me so much over the last few weeks so thanks to everyone.

doltage

Hey jenkellyxx, sorry it's taken me so long to get back online I've been flat out here!

First of all I hope you're still smoke free, every day/hour/minute counts!

As I said the other day if you can make it as far as Friday without smoking make sure your doctor gives you something without nicotine in it as your body will be nicotine free by that stage.

Before Friday you may want to have a look at what's available to you which doesn't have nicotine in it, for example Champix (I used that and would recommend it to anyone!) Zyban, hypnotherapy, cold turkey Alan Carr etc. and see which one tickles your fancy! There are many many posts on here where you'll be able to find out which method has worked and which haven't and reasons why, which will certainly help when making a decision about which method you'd like to use.

If you still haven't smoked that's fantastic but if you've slipped back in don't beat yourself up too much (just a wee bit lol) and redouble your efforts to give yourself a better quality of life and your little 'un the best possible start to life.

If you find yourself struggling pop along here and pour your heart out and somebody who is or has been in the same boat will be along shortly to assure you that you're not losing your mind, you're not an ogre and the world certainly is conspiring to annoy you when you're trying to stop smoking!

Best of luck with the pregnancy and the stopping smoking!

marjem wrote: »

Hi everyone, only one day to go before I've hit the four weeks mark and on the 12th it will be a whole month. Although I have tried to be positive from the start that I would never go back to smoking, I have surprised myself as at one time I would never have thought I could have gone this long without smoking. Funnily enough I now wonder how I managed to smoke nearly twenty a day !!!.

:T:TWell done Marjem! I know how proud you must feel, hopefully you're reminding everyone around you that you're doing brilliantly :T:T

(Don't be getting too complacent tho!)

Well done Lewki, you're doing so well, hopefully the weekend doesn't yield too many temptations!

bubbles0169

i havent had one all day!(20 a day normally)
im on champix, todays the stop smoking day
i was fine til about 11am when i got an insatiable appetite so had 2 packets o crisps and half packet o jaffa cakes
you know how you want one after a large meal
well aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!

bubbles0169

aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh i neeeed to break up my routine, the only thing i can think of involves getting wet
catch the bus to a bigger town and window shop in the rain, ill probably go in the shops actually as you cant smoke in there
i am supposed to be making some soup with the chicken bones i have leftover but whenever i had a minute when cooking id have a !!!

wannabemoneysavingstar

don't go, don't go to the shops you will end up smoking, just do what everyone else does every time you[STRIKE] need[/STRIKE] want a smoke then come on here ramble to your hearts delight, everyone loves a ramble.... just keep posting not smoking it does work really it does :j:j:j:j:j

bubbles0169

hi thanks wannabe but i have a ds whos only 19m so cant be on here all the time, i have to keep busy elswhere with him to take my mind of it
i used to put him in playpen for 5 mins while i had one

going to shops turned out great
i bundled everything i needed for ds (and ds!) up quickly so wouldnt miss bus,
walked down road a bit and started to think about bus times coming back,
then it dawned on me i couldnt get back til at least 3.25 and i have to get ds1 from school at 3.15
ooooh i so needed one then but didnt
have not had one aaaaaallll day
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!