The Giving Up Smoking Thread!!

TDQO

Well done to all of you that are going strong with the non-smoking.

I'm up to the 3 week mark now and haven't even had any nicotine gum for nearly 2 weeks so pretty chuffed. I did get absolutely slaughtered on saturday and have a cigarrette from a mate but I don't think it counts because I can't remember doing it!!

kate705

debbiemc wrote: »

Hi folks :wave:

Just wanted to stop in too and say hi, I've been keeping up with the daily digest of the posts on here but haven't popped in for a while.

Still smoke free and its great to see Schmickle and Kate are as well, as we stopped around the same time. All these other new quitters too - great stuff! :j

Debbie. x

Hi Debbie,
Its a month for us and Schmickle! How are you feeling?
I am not thinking of it so much now but need to start getting fit! I haven't put on that much weight either.....just a bit.
Keep going everyone,
Kate xx

cally6008

My OH is stopping smoking by using an electronic cigarette. I'm so proud of him as today has been his first full day with no real cigs.

Sue-UU

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:

Great to see you again Jo, look at all you've achieved in starting this thread. It's been fantastic just seeing how relieved people are at having fulfilled and almost life-long ambition! Thanks SO much Jo, a marvellous thread indeed! :T


Aside from jancee airing his/her views (not the best place as was soon realised) :rolleyes: there has been such amazing motivation for everyone here today and I'm thrilled to see so many willing to take the time to help everyone so much. Thanks so much for your story hethmar, it's always wonderful for moral when folk at vulnerable stages can read of such great success. Like everyone else, keep focusing on all those positive changes on yourself and stay quit for LIFE, yours!

Congratulations to TDQO, themammy, Daz and Mrs Daz! Also to Mintoze (see you on SPC soon I hope), bigsmoke (keep on the OJs! ) bones61 well done! and to joop - you can save yours in your pot on the Sealed Pot Challenge 2 "The Return" just as you've indicated on the old thread, good for you! :A I haven't forgotten you either Kate! ....and cally, you sound so very delighted and proud of your OH, I do hope it works for him, you can support each other too! Good luck everyone, keep it up!

Hi Sexy Legs and welcome to the thread! Please take note of all that YM has written. Keep yourself focused on all the bad things against cigs, write them all down - starting with the health. Then do the same with all the points that make new people of us all - if we stay stopped!Most of us have taken more than one attempt, but one of these days, you'll hit upon the time that does it and oh will you be so delighted with yourself. If you've recently lost your mum then you may well still be grieving which is making you feel so much worse.

You feel like punching out at something - pick a pillow, anything similar to give vent to. Come on here daily and tell us exactly how you're feeling. Let us help and support you through all your feelings, the bad times - then the good!! One thing to remember though is not to be so hard on yourself. We all know it's a struggle at first and we all get weak moments when the brain, still tackling nicotine and the evils of fags, is telling us one thing while we try to fight against it, but with the help that's here, we also conquer them all and are able to pull each other through the bad times ...right to the winning post!

Come back later today and chat anytime and get all your feelings out, whatever they are. We ALL wish you the very best of everything to be able to say goodbye to smoking for keeps!

Sue

Waspeze

Hi all..

Gotta be really quick as very busy at work at the mo :eek:

Great to see so many people posting on here with most giving their support or lending their experiences :T :T

Had my fortnightiversary yesterday (or was it sunday? I get confused :rotfl: ) and all's well on the smokefree front.. starting day 16 today .. Wow .. into my third week already :j :j

The voices have stopped shouting now and have started asking me politely to nip outside.. obviously makes it a lot easier to turn them down


Anyway have to go but didn't want you to think i'd deserted you .. will be back posting in a couple of days :cool:

Well done all :A

Sexy_Legs

Thank you everyone for all your support and ideas.

I am feeling much better today, and PROUD of myself for getting through yesterday.

Feeling much more positive and am repeating to myself that I am a non-smoker :j

Thank you as well for the private message, I can very much relate to the best friend bit, I am going to succeed this time and treat myself at the weekend.

S

kazmc

Hi there
Well I gave up 7 months, 3 weeks and 6 days ago
I have to say it was the hardest thing I have ever done.
I had smoked 20+ a day for over 25 years and enough was enough.
A year and a half ago I held my dads hand as he died (the single most horrendous experience in my life) from smoking related lung cancer and then went and had a fag But I vowed that I would give up. Took me a year but I got to a point where I was ready to give up, turning 40 helped :eek:
I joined a NHS stop smoking group and started taking champix (a wonder drug in my eyes) and the rest as they say is history. :j
If I waver I look at my beautiful little girl who is now 7. As a single mum the thought of dying and leaving her on her own petrifies me and I will do everything within my power to stay with her.
And I have to say it is so much easier when you cant smoke anywhere indoors, thanks Government!!

KEEP IT UP EVERYONE - IT IS POSSIBLE TO BREAK FREE FROM YOUR HABIT

Karen x

hethmar

I can so understand that Karen. I did the same, watched my darling mum die and then had to go outside, cry and suck on a fag. And yet the one thing she kept asking me to do for her was to pack up the fags.

As I say, I dont think about ciggies so much now but they are still their lurking to grab me back to them, each day I have to reinforce why I am now a non smoker and say I wont smoke today. I tell you what was great, when the doctor was taking some notes and he looked at his computer and said, Oh, I have to change this, you are an ex smoker now arent you. Oh, that did make me feel proud. All those "mates" saying you will never manage to give up. I think they say that because they are guilty and know they couldnt.

So onwards and upwards people - download the meter, see what you are saving and buy something nice for yourself as a reward.

joop

Day 2 - Have been to my appt with the Smoking Nurse and my Carbon Dioxide reading is down from 26% to NIL! Does that mean my carbon footprint is smaller as well???!

She asked about bad dreams and told me to take my second Champix tab earlier than 6.30pm. I haven't been having bad dreams but they are quite vivid!

Still feeling very pleased with myself.

I would like to say that this board is already helping with the support and being thanked for my first rambling post gave me a lovely warm feeling!

Will keep in touch x

hethmar

Wonderful joop - its amazing how quickly things can change once you stop pumping the smoke into your system. I did have a list from somewhere about the changes/time frames. Ill try to find it and put it on here