The Giving Up Smoking Thread!!

TillyTrippit

Adzha - fantastic site and well done on battling the demons - it gets better but that is no consolation when you want to do violence!!

My silkquit meter tells me that I have passed the two months mark - pause for unutterably smug moment!!! Aaah!!
OK so I still would like one when I'm out and I now have a most unsavoury reputation for sniffing smokers I know - but I finally am beginnning to feel better woohoo!!!
Downside is that the toxins are not leaving my system without a fight - my face looks worse now than when I was a teenager lol!!!
Keep going everyone - we are boss!!!
Tilly
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in_debt_again_but_dealing_with_it

Well done on reaching 2 months Tilly, you are allowed to feel justifiably smug! I must admit my dh still smoking, just outside and I do look forward to him lighting up (don't encourage him though lol) so I can have a whiff!!!
The click2 quit msg has just told me I've past the "crucial" 10 weeks!! Still can't afford to be complacent cause I'd still like a ciggie sometimes and I know I'd find it terribly easy to start again. But don't let that put anyone off cause I have no regrets about quitting and my "urges" (no longer cravings) are relatively painless now and last mere seconds. I often don't give smoking or cigarettes a second thought even in really stressful situations. So in that respect I suppose "I'm free" - a thought that I have only just realised. Yay I'm no longer a prisoner of a cigarette - go me!!!!
love and hugs all
IDA
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Adzha

I could still kill for a fag!

Starting again may be an option for me

in_debt_again_but_dealing_with_it

Hope you resisted Adzha!

Adzha

I did, but I feel crap for doing so

in_debt_again_but_dealing_with_it

Don't feel crap - this is what you wanted isn't it??? Take a look at the videos (Jo posted the link on page 1) - as a reminder of what you're leaving behind. If all else fails try and see the funny side of how you're feeling - there is one honest!!! In the meantime you're doing really well already past the 7 day mark!!!!

Adzha

A week?
Its just everyone knows me as a smoker
Its so different discovering a smoke free me

in_debt_again_but_dealing_with_it

Was just the same for me, plus I'd tried to give up so many times before, also been a secret smoker in the past, I knew people (including me -lol) were just waiting for me to fail but here I am, still occasionally wanting a fag but the benefits beat the desire hands down - particularly the money!!! I really did try and make a joke of it, like my nicotine monster was called Nick O'Teen and I had a happy, smiling, smoking devil on one shoulder and a miserable, solemn angel on the other!!! I stuck with the angel when I really wanted to party with the devil - lol. I'm glad I did I have no regrets and I'm no longer a prisoner and as smokers we are!! Stay strong, you are bigger that Mr O'Teen!!
IDA
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Adzha

Lol kk
See where I end up, to be honest I only quit so as not to get caught by my parents, but they know now.

I_love_Airedales

Hiya all you quitters. 10 weeks ago I had my last cig. Hooray! OH and I are going out every day trying to get fitter we have a tricycle we share, one rides the other walks, we went along the canal at Exeter and clocked up - wait for it - 9 .18 miles.
Has anyone else noticed that the things you used to enjoy eating /drinking are not as nice as you thought they were?
IDA what does that mean the crucial 10 weeks? Sounds like we done good?
Take care all,
ILA