Giving up smoking
Discussion
don4l said:
smifffymoto said:
Ha Ha the smell,breath like dogs
t and clothes smelling like a 2 week old ashtray.
Why come into a thread if all you want to do is sneer?t and clothes smelling like a 2 week old ashtray.I don't believe it for one second when people say they don't want to stop smoking.There is always a reason why now is a bad time to quit when you are a smoker.
smifffymoto said:
don4l said:
smifffymoto said:
Ha Ha the smell,breath like dogst and clothes smelling like a 2 week old ashtray.
Why come into a thread if all you want to do is sneer?t and clothes smelling like a 2 week old ashtray.I don't believe it for one second when people say they don't want to stop smoking.There is always a reason why now is a bad time to quit when you are a smoker.
e turned nun."Breath like dogs
t" sounds like sneering to me.smifffymoto said:
TBH I never bought the the nicotine addiction bks,lots of people make alot of money from that myth.
Stopping smoking is easy,you don't wake up in the night needing to top up the nicotine levels in your blood.
Anxiety is the real reason people carry on smoking,the anxiety of forgetting your ciggies,the anxiety of not being able to smoke during a flight etc.Think about it a bit and I think you will agree.
Don't for a minute think it is easy overcoming the anxiety but it is possible.
I used to smoke between 20 and 40 aday while driving and have now been a non smoker for nearly 10 years.Best thing I did was stop smoking.
I've tried calculating how much I've saved since 1969 when I gave up. I was on 20 a day.ks,lots of people make alot of money from that myth.Stopping smoking is easy,you don't wake up in the night needing to top up the nicotine levels in your blood.
Anxiety is the real reason people carry on smoking,the anxiety of forgetting your ciggies,the anxiety of not being able to smoke during a flight etc.Think about it a bit and I think you will agree.
Don't for a minute think it is easy overcoming the anxiety but it is possible.
I used to smoke between 20 and 40 aday while driving and have now been a non smoker for nearly 10 years.Best thing I did was stop smoking.
I took over as department head from a 55-year-old who'd smoked all his life.
I went to his going away presentation a few months later and was surprised to see him in a wheelchair. I had a chat to his wife, whom I knew professionally, so to speak, and she said that he'd had to have his leg amputated from below the knee and would have to have the other removed before long. He'd been a smoker all his life - his office stank of smoke and I had it cleaned just to stop the stench going into the main office. There was another smaller room, used for storage, and I took that over. The staff complained that the documents were impregnated with the smell of tobacco.
He'd been warned some years before that he would have to give up smoking due to loss of circulation at the extremities but he'd been unable to despite many attempts, including hypnotism. He was a great fan of classical music but could no longer go because he kept coughing.
He retired and was waiting for his other leg to be removed - the first op had given difficulties with anaesthetic and he needed to get stronger - when he died, I assume it was a heart attack but I wasn't told cause.
Given the motivation, I think he might have been addicted.
It takes different people different ways. When I gave up the most difficult thing I found was knowing what to do with my hands in stressful situations - I was and remain more than a little shy with strangers.
Derek Smith said:
I was and remain more than a little shy with strangers.
This comment strikes a chord with me.I am naturally very shy with strangers. However, there are times when I can put the effort in. On those occasions I find it easy to socialise.
I bet that you are exactly the same.
according to the metro today smokers in the UK as % of adult population is now down to less than 17%. I assume it exclude e cigs my guess is price is the driving factor and the government will push up over time the cost of e cigs.
Still good news really fewer an fewr people smoking. As an ex smoker who freely admists I liked it and would not have given up were it not for annual chest infection and cost, I am glad as a whole numbers are falling. With it not acceptable in pubs any more and even bus shelters time I think will see it die out. For health its a good thing.
Freedom of choice less so but I suppose we dont always make best decisions I dread to think over 18 years the cash I wasted smoking even though in that time there were periods of months somking zero etc.
Still good news really fewer an fewr people smoking. As an ex smoker who freely admists I liked it and would not have given up were it not for annual chest infection and cost, I am glad as a whole numbers are falling. With it not acceptable in pubs any more and even bus shelters time I think will see it die out. For health its a good thing.
Freedom of choice less so but I suppose we dont always make best decisions I dread to think over 18 years the cash I wasted smoking even though in that time there were periods of months somking zero etc.
I have decided that after 11 years of smoking(probably 15 a day on average), that I'm going cold turkey tomorrow, I have a little Allen Carr book that I'll read before bed tonight and go full cold turkey tomorrow, no ecigs, no patches, nothing.
Last time I quit for a little while I was using ecigs, but it was all too easy to transition back to cigarettes, I need to completely break the habit.
Last time I quit for a little while I was using ecigs, but it was all too easy to transition back to cigarettes, I need to completely break the habit.
Marc p said:
I have decided that after 11 years of smoking(probably 15 a day on average), that I'm going cold turkey tomorrow, I have a little Allen Carr book that I'll read before bed tonight and go full cold turkey tomorrow, no ecigs, no patches, nothing.
Last time I quit for a little while I was using ecigs, but it was all too easy to transition back to cigarettes, I need to completely break the habit.
You're doing it the right way. Cold turkey is the only way to break the habit. Substituting cigarettes with something else is still enforcing the habit. Good luck and stick with it. Sometimes the thought of giving up is harder than actually giving up if that makes sense. Last time I quit for a little while I was using ecigs, but it was all too easy to transition back to cigarettes, I need to completely break the habit.
I stopped last year on my 40th birthday.
Well, I actually stopped a month before that, but had one in the pub on my birthday. It was horrible, made me feel very sick, and gave me a nasty headache.
Never looked back. No e-cig, no patches, no gum. Just the thought that my body was used to that poison, and how it actually affects you if you are not used to it.
I think my life insurance just got cheaper after a year off nicotine too
Well, I actually stopped a month before that, but had one in the pub on my birthday. It was horrible, made me feel very sick, and gave me a nasty headache.
Never looked back. No e-cig, no patches, no gum. Just the thought that my body was used to that poison, and how it actually affects you if you are not used to it.
I think my life insurance just got cheaper after a year off nicotine too
A progress report. It's now just over three weeks since I quit. I'm using the vapes as much as ever (they work for me) plus another thing helping is that I now have approaching £150 in a money jar, from putting to one side what I would have spent on Marlboro's.
Week two I found hardest, which matches my memory of quitting some ten years ago. There were times I really could have screamed!
All in all though I'm now beginning to find it easier.
Week two I found hardest, which matches my memory of quitting some ten years ago. There were times I really could have screamed!
All in all though I'm now beginning to find it easier.
Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah said:
A progress report. It's now just over three weeks since I quit. I'm using the vapes as much as ever (they work for me) plus another thing helping is that I now have approaching £150 in a money jar, from putting to one side what I would have spent on Marlboro's.
Week two I found hardest, which matches my memory of quitting some ten years ago. There were times I really could have screamed!
All in all though I'm now beginning to find it easier.
Good man, the real winner will be you.Week two I found hardest, which matches my memory of quitting some ten years ago. There were times I really could have screamed!
All in all though I'm now beginning to find it easier.
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