Give Up Smoking or Die Trying
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If you're packing up for the new year (or have recently), please share with the rest of us. I know thenortherner plans to give up from another thread, and I'm already on a whopping 48 hours.
Let us know if you're quitting for the New Year, those that have been previously successful can chip-in with advice and let us know how you're coping. Come and post when you have a craving to distract your fingers.
I'm on the Nicorette Freshfruit 2mg Gum, which after pretty much trying them all, became my nicotine relacement product of choice.
Let us know if you're quitting for the New Year, those that have been previously successful can chip-in with advice and let us know how you're coping. Come and post when you have a craving to distract your fingers.
I'm on the Nicorette Freshfruit 2mg Gum, which after pretty much trying them all, became my nicotine relacement product of choice.
I have absolutely zero willpower . I gave up using champix which was prescribed by my Gp with me attending a clinic . Iirc it was a 12 week course and I completely gave up halfway .
There are some side effects but in my case fairly mild . It will be two years in Easter for me.
Good luck
There are some side effects but in my case fairly mild . It will be two years in Easter for me.
Good luck
RDM said:
Not for New Year but haven't smoked since September when I started the NicoLite e-cigs.
A lot of people seem to be doing well on the e-ciggies. I've got a friend over from Cyprus for Christmas and she is one of my 'smoking buddies'. To see her puffing away on an e-cig I must admit was a little disappointing, but if she can do it, I must be able to. I'm on day 4 now. I was craving cigarettes a lot last night. Though I think a lot of my cravings are reactional - recent move, living alone, boredom at home, stressful job, etc.
I'm still not using any replacement products, I've gone completely cold turkey.
What did piss me off a little was a colleague yesterday asking me to come for a smoke with her, I then told her I'd stopped, but she waved a pack of fags at me and said I might as well give up in the new year.
I'm noticing little changes too. I was sat at my desk this morning and wondered what the nice smell of almonds was. It dawned on me it was my own shower gel's scent but I'd never been able to smell it before!
New year's going to see a new round of 'hard hitting' TV ads too. From my experience all they do is make you reflect, albeit momentarily, before your next fag.
Good luck people.
I'm still not using any replacement products, I've gone completely cold turkey.
What did piss me off a little was a colleague yesterday asking me to come for a smoke with her, I then told her I'd stopped, but she waved a pack of fags at me and said I might as well give up in the new year.
I'm noticing little changes too. I was sat at my desk this morning and wondered what the nice smell of almonds was. It dawned on me it was my own shower gel's scent but I'd never been able to smell it before!
New year's going to see a new round of 'hard hitting' TV ads too. From my experience all they do is make you reflect, albeit momentarily, before your next fag.
Good luck people.
jas xjr said:
I have absolutely zero willpower . I gave up using champix which was prescribed by my Gp with me attending a clinic . Iirc it was a 12 week course and I completely gave up halfway .
There are some side effects but in my case fairly mild . It will be two years in Easter for me.
Good luck
I had to read that twice. When you say you gave up halfway... There are some side effects but in my case fairly mild . It will be two years in Easter for me.
Good luck
Coco H said:
My OH needs to give up now. Sadly unless he makes that decision I expect I will be widowed in the next 10-20 years.
I wish you all the best of luck. I gave up over 7 years ago - cold turkey. It wasn't easy but as the days passed I felt less and less like having one.
As you say it does get easier every day.I wish you all the best of luck. I gave up over 7 years ago - cold turkey. It wasn't easy but as the days passed I felt less and less like having one.
My father is still a determined smoker despite very bad circulation problems which could see him losing his feet!
It is a curse of a habit and I know how he feels when he says that he cannot stop.
Peer pressure and nagging does not help.
I have given up nagging him, he will have to live with the consequences of his actions.
Struggling a bit today (day 3 for me), but walked the dog with £0 in my pockets in case I was tempted to stop at a shop. I'm on the nicotine chews, but not had that many today - YET!
I went cold turkey years ago (and lasted 8 years!), but now I have a serious lack of will-power.
For those joining us over new year, good luck and let us know how you get on.
I went cold turkey years ago (and lasted 8 years!), but now I have a serious lack of will-power.
For those joining us over new year, good luck and let us know how you get on.
Good luck everyone, it's not an easy thing to. I recommend having a read of Allen Carr's book - Easy way to stop smoking. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Allen-Carrs-Easy-Stop-Smok... It may also be available to download as a PDF.
It's very well written and isn't patronising.
It's very well written and isn't patronising.
Bungleaio said:
Good luck everyone, it's not an easy thing to. I recommend having a read of Allen Carr's book - Easy way to stop smoking. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Allen-Carrs-Easy-Stop-Smok... It may also be available to download as a PDF.
It's very well written and isn't patronising.
I agree it's a helpful aid and I've given up for months before using it. The theory too is long standing. Yet here I am, still smoking, and likely down to a bit of a cold (I hope) a bit short of breath at the grand age of 37. I have to do something soon, and I'm thinking January. Not dissimilar to my thoughts last December I suspect.It's very well written and isn't patronising.
Me and my mrs stopped at the same time in September, the first week was the usual nightmare of moodiness and arguments at the drop of a hat, but that soon stopped. We've stopped in the past but this time it's not something we feel lioke we're missing, in fact the complete opposite this time round.
It also helps if you feel the need to justify it, and this time round having the TVR in a garage for a few months to get sorted out is the financial justification we both needed.
Good luck all you quitters, it's a horrible thing, you're not 'giving up' anything good, you're just stopping smoking.
It also helps if you feel the need to justify it, and this time round having the TVR in a garage for a few months to get sorted out is the financial justification we both needed.
Good luck all you quitters, it's a horrible thing, you're not 'giving up' anything good, you're just stopping smoking.
I'll have to admit to having a bit of a 'wobble' today. A few years ago, a few of us locals converted a derelict barn into a 'man-cave'. Whether it's in the gameroom (smoking), in the TV room (smoking) or in my office (smoking) it's a place where we all smoke and always have smoked. I must have lasted about 30 seconds before scavenging for a cigarette. I also had a mate come up this afternoon and, even as a non-smoker, he arrived and chucked a packet of ciggies on the table in the TV room - guess these were his 'subs' for using the facilities.
Not using the place is out of the question, so I need to get my head around it. Having gone 3 days of stress (visiting my mum) and not smoking, I know it's doable, just a mental/association thing I have to overcome.
We can do it together though folks! Share the successes and perhaps even occasional lapses (like mine!)
Not using the place is out of the question, so I need to get my head around it. Having gone 3 days of stress (visiting my mum) and not smoking, I know it's doable, just a mental/association thing I have to overcome.
We can do it together though folks! Share the successes and perhaps even occasional lapses (like mine!)
Winnit said:
I've done s
t today. The longest I've managed going without a fag is 3 poxy hours. It's not looking good captain.
It's day 5 for me. And I'm feeling much better. So much so that I'm even starting to look at booking a mountain biking holiday this summer in Chamonix as a bit of motivation to keep me on the straight and narrow. I'm not exactly unfit now, but I want to be superfit by summer.t today. The longest I've managed going without a fag is 3 poxy hours. It's not looking good captain.I was exactly the same as you are, in that I was measuring not smoking in hours rather than days, so I know how hard it is for you.
Have you tried any of the replacement therapies?
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