The Giving Up Smoking Thread!!

Mintoze

missessex01 wrote: »

I think im just too scared :embarasse

I think you've hit the nail on the head for all of us actually. It is fear that can be a real problem. But what's to fear? Instant better health and wealth? I think we/I must think of the POSITIVE issues rather than the negative ones. There is actually nothing to fear and everything to look forward to.

miss_essex01

Mintoze wrote: »

I think you've hit the nail on the head for all of us actually. It is fear that can be a real problem. But what's to fear? Instant better health and wealth? I think we/I must think of the POSITIVE issues rather than the negative ones. There is actually nothing to fear and everything to look forward to.

Yeah its a fear but god knows why!!

Did any of you suffer any side affects from giving up?Xx

hethmar

Miss Essex, download the silkquit meter. Its really an encouragement, you enter the number of cigs you smoke a day (dont lie) and the cost of the cigs. You can check it any time to see how many cigs you havent smoked, how much money you have saved and how much time you have added to your life span

miss_essex01

Thanks Hethmar! Really helpful am going to go on there now and have a look. sounds really good x

simbalou

Just want to say a big welcome and good luck to everyone that's joined since I posted over a month ago. I've now been quit for 5 months and 5 days (I have the Silkquit meter!) it's not been easy, this last couple of weeks have been hell. I've put it down to the nicotine demons seizing their last chance with both hands but I've managed to push them away and get on with my non-smoking life. I would never ever forgive myself if I started again, my kids need me more than I need the cigs.

I feel confident enough to have an alcoholic drink but I only do that now with non-smoking friends because I don't want to put myself in a situation where I might cave in. When people come round to my house now they have to stand outside in the cold and rain to have a fag, I even shut the back door on them because I don't want the smell in my house!

Keep going everyone, I know it's a really difficult time of the year to get through with all the parties and stuff but when New Years Day comes around you'll have one less resolution to set because you've already stopped smoking and will have to think of something else instead! x

hethmar

Sim, can you give an example to the newbies of what your silkquit meter is reading after 5 months please?

little_lily

Hi all,

The Secret Smoker here - or really, the Secret Non-Smoker as it's now been 4 days 23 hours and 27 minutes since I last smoked!

One thing that really depresses me is reading about those of you who have stopped and who still, many months down the line, crave a cigarette.

That's not a criticism of you posting, by the way - I appreciate the honesty. But though I'm managing well at the moment, I keep my spirits up by thinking "Oh, well - the cravings will be gone before too long and then I can really enjoy being a non-smoker"

So it's mighy depressing to think that five or six months down the line I'll still be suffering cravings.

Long-termers - your thoughts and experiences, please!!!!

TDQO

4 weeks now, woo!

Keep at it you lot, stay strong, it's totally worth it!

Sue-UU

Hi Mintoze and bigsmoke! Please, please don't be too disheartened as it's so easy for others who smoke to entice us (not in words, but because of our heads knowing they do!) at a weak moment. Move on and count it as a blip or you may just put yourself way too far back, and that is never worth doing. So many folk on here have had the same thing happen and, after advice, gone straight on as though nothing had happened AND quit!! So you're not alone, they came through it all by looking upon it as a blip, you both do the same please! Do try so very hard to keep away from pubs and clubs, but IF you do go, then try to 'see' us all looking at you IF ever you're tempted again!!! :mad: IF you ever get like that again though bigsmoke, please do come on here and tell us straight away, you'll feel far better for doing so, and no one here is going to be anything other than sympathetic and encouraging.

Me write a book, Mintoze!!!!!! :eek: Not bloomin likely, I'm too busy writing on here and it's with you folk that I'd far sooner be any day!!! :j


Hi hethmar. Oh how right you are about any of our quitters here thinking it may just have been easy for us, but folks - it never was and I too always battled on sucking the sticks even one or two times with chest infections!!!:mad: Madness, but isn't it amazing the depths we let ourselves sink to at times hethmar! Still so long as we ALL come though it, THAT is what counts!


Hi missessex, it's good to see you here!!! :j OK, you've got the other pot/s all ready for saving in, now's the time to get another and put that £4.25 a day in and watch that tot up, it's such an incentive in driving you on to quit for good. I'll send you a PM which might help you with quitting, also to help while you're counting down the days, though I'd urge you to quit just as soon as you can. You may be scared at first but that'll soon pass the further away you get. We all go through the same feelings when we contemplate quitting. All of us here will be urging you on and we're here for you to tell us all your true feelings, to rant and rave to and then as you progress, to tell us all how very proud you are at the distance you've travelled!!!

Well done simbalou!! I think you came on at just the right time to help missessex even more. Congratulations on that additional month,:T you've so very much to be so proud of!!! Brilliant for you too TDQO!!! :T I'm really impressed at how marvellously you've done so far. Another one coming on at just the right time!

Hi lily. Please, please don't get worrying yourself unnecessarily about what the future might be like. Sadly you haven't quite read enough of the thread to see how we get past that stage. It's strange about the cravings that continue a little because you honestly cannot describe them as cravings, it's a feeling that is like a sort of "what is it I'm missing?" Then you'll possibly realise what it is, the next minute it's gone!!! That is it, truthfully. I can remember Dr Chris Steele (from TV) saying that after you'd quit that now and again you'd get these feelings and they'd last for a few seconds - then be gone completely and that is EXACTLY what it's like! I didn't believe him at the time, but it is the absolute truth and nothing to fear at all, I promise you!! I think we're all guilty of looking too far into the future when we quit, but aside from doing so with all the benefits you'll feel, don't bother with anything else as it is truthfully never worth it!!!

All the very best to everyone, please keep it up and keep yourselves strong!

Sue

hethmar

Lily - I still think about a fag now and then - Im afraid its a bit like being an alcoholic, it doesnt completely go but you manage it day at a time. As su says it a , oh wheres my pack of fags feeling and then you remember and it passes.