The Giving Up Smoking Thread!!

TNG

Hi all :wave:

Thanks Sue - I will pop back 'home' occasionally. I always read, but don't always post. I find you manage to cover anything I could say anyway :rotfl:

yellowmonkey wrote: »

Hi all old and new :hello:

A few may remember me. Wonderfull thread this one and anyone giving up has my heart felt best wishes.

Anyway the reason for my visit is that after 27 years of smoking I am now celebrating a whole year smoke free :j :j . Something just clicked for me after several failed attempts and it was the best thing I have ever done

Good luck to you all

YM

Well done YM - brilliant stuff!!!


To the others on day 7 and beyond. Think of this. the nicotine has now LEFT YOUR BODY. It's gone. There is NO physical craving anymore. It's all in your mind now. Keep concentrating on that and don't allow your brain to trick you. It will try, believe me!

bones - I hadn't heard of that DS thing! Might have to get that as a present for someone :whistle:

We'll done all of you. Just think of lula in your ear "You CAN, you CAN, you CAN... you WILL".......

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jo1972

Hello all :wave:

Just wanted to pop on and say congratulations to all of you, whether at a years quit (well done YM ), or on day 1

I'm always watching over you, remember that :eek:

TNG

jo1972 wrote: »

Hello all :wave:

Just wanted to pop on and say congratulations to all of you, whether at a years quit (well done YM ), or on day 1

I'm always watching over you, remember that :eek:

I hope you're proud of yourself! You started this thread and you have helped SO many people stop smoking directly AND indirectly.... WELL DONE!!!!

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shadydaz

4 Months and counting.

After suffering the force of the Nora virus this weekend it felt like i was back on day one or two again when i finally came round but ok now. Still tyring to recover but still not smoking. Missus is doing really well too. Nearly three months for her.

yellowmonkey

TNG wrote: »

I hope you're proud of yourself! You started this thread and you have helped SO many people stop smoking directly AND indirectly.... WELL DONE!!!!

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Hear , Hear :T:T:T:T:T:T:D

Mintoze

Ditto. This thread is great.

I'm counting weeks now instead of days - 3 weeks today HURRAY!!!

Sue - thanks for your kind words. What's the sealed pot challenge. Am off to Edinburgh for a couple of days tomorrow so will miss the Tuesday start of the challenge.

bigsmoke

hi everyone!

a very quick one from me - day 11 and in the full throes of a cold, which i actually think is helping on the smoking front!

huge congratulations mumofcookers and chamelon on 7 days, it feels like such a massive achievement, and after all the heartache of the first few days i hope we have now been through enough to stop us from wanting to have to go through it again!

first big challenge for me tomorrow - going out to a pub for the first time since quitting. i'm thinking of staying off the booze (great tip bones61) as i know this makes me a little less 'rational', ahem, and more likely to crave a cigarette. then the BIG test will be the weekend, when i think i'm meant to be going clubbing. hopefully the weather will be miserable enough to make me glad to stay inside in the warm!

very best wishes to everyone, all doing so well

bs x

themammy

Hi Everyone,

I am having the day from hell laptop has died, my tumble dryer is making a banging noise and the heating is not working. But the good thing is I don't even want to smoke didn't enter my head.

Well done everyone for remaining non smokers

Sexy_Legs

Hi everyone,

Well I gave up smoknig on Saturday night, this is not the first attempt, I have quit, before it was for about 8 months and then I restarted, but today feeling very sorry for myself, and finding cravings difficult to deal with.

I really didn't think it would be this bad, having given up before, but I really feel like punching something, a lot of it is feeling sorry for myself and at the same time hating the cigarettes, but the problem is that if i am honest I dont' hate them but should, I watched my mother die from them, and am crying now as I type this, I am so addiicted and feel so sad, but have not had a cigarette but GOD do I feel like one.

Please help moaner moaner, I want to be able to succeed this time without restarting.

Thanks in advance

yellowmonkey

Sexy_Legs wrote: »

Hi everyone,

Well I gave up smoknig on Saturday night, this is not the first attempt, I have quit, before it was for about 8 months and then I restarted, but today feeling very sorry for myself, and finding cravings difficult to deal with.

I really didn't think it would be this bad, having given up before, but I really feel like punching something, a lot of it is feeling sorry for myself and at the same time hating the cigarettes, but the problem is that if i am honest I dont' hate them but should, I watched my mother die from them, and am crying now as I type this, I am so addiicted and feel so sad, but have not had a cigarette but GOD do I feel like one.

Please help moaner moaner, I want to be able to succeed this time without restarting.

Thanks in advance

Hey dont panic.

you have said that you have given up before and you can do it again. I was the same . I thought I enjoyed smoking but ,if truth be known, it was the relieving of the withdrawl from Nicotene that felt good. You CAN do it and you need to distinguish between the idea of needing and enjoying a fag and try to think what would happen if I did not have one. What would happen if you stop smoking ???

You dont cough in the morning and you will not smell.

It is not the be all and end all of everything and you have so much time to do loads extra because you have more time on your hands.

It took me ages and loads of failed attempts (27 years) before it clicked but when it does it feels good. Try not to think about it all the time and try to train your mind to think that you have just had a fag and feel good.

I wish you all the best and never stop giving up

ym