Another smoking thread - Day 1
Discussion
Rather than ressurect a dead thread, another has now emerged.
Quitting smoking. I've decided I'm quitting.
Tried towards the end of last year and got down to a few a day, thats not quitting. There is a big difference between a few and none!
Joined the "stop smoking" group run through the NHS, first meeting was Wednesday.
Managed wednesday night smoke free, Thursday I caved in about 1pm and had five smokes while at work, none thursday night.
Today is the D-day. I'm now trying the Nicorette nasal inhaler, removes almost completely the "need a fag! need one now" urge (and leaves me feeling a little out of it lol), although I would really fancy one....
No cigs all day, I think I'm going to manage my first day without a cigarette for the last 12 years.
One day nearly done, many more to go...
Quitting smoking. I've decided I'm quitting.
Tried towards the end of last year and got down to a few a day, thats not quitting. There is a big difference between a few and none!
Joined the "stop smoking" group run through the NHS, first meeting was Wednesday.
Managed wednesday night smoke free, Thursday I caved in about 1pm and had five smokes while at work, none thursday night.
Today is the D-day. I'm now trying the Nicorette nasal inhaler, removes almost completely the "need a fag! need one now" urge (and leaves me feeling a little out of it lol), although I would really fancy one....
No cigs all day, I think I'm going to manage my first day without a cigarette for the last 12 years.
One day nearly done, many more to go...
Out of curiousity has anyone else tried this nicorette nasal spray?
I'm using it less than the maximum twice an hour (one squirt an hour while at work, should be fine without it at home) yet I'm feeling like I'm about two pints gone...
Its a 0.5mg nicotine dose, so nothing compared to a 10mg or 11mg cigarette.
No mention of that in the side effects!
I'm using it less than the maximum twice an hour (one squirt an hour while at work, should be fine without it at home) yet I'm feeling like I'm about two pints gone...
Its a 0.5mg nicotine dose, so nothing compared to a 10mg or 11mg cigarette.
No mention of that in the side effects!
Well in a way I think your lucky. I started my diet two weeks ago. need to go from 87Kg to about 80Kg.
Problem is I have a very sedentary job, which means restricting my intake enough to reduce my weight at a sensible rate means very little intake.
Breakfast is gone and so is lunch and therefore basically down to one meal a day losing about half a kilo a week.
The reason I say you are lucky is because I sometimes think its easier with ciggies. Stay away from then and eventually you won't need them.
Food is a lifelong addiction we all have.
Problem is I have a very sedentary job, which means restricting my intake enough to reduce my weight at a sensible rate means very little intake.
Breakfast is gone and so is lunch and therefore basically down to one meal a day losing about half a kilo a week.
The reason I say you are lucky is because I sometimes think its easier with ciggies. Stay away from then and eventually you won't need them.
Food is a lifelong addiction we all have.
Good on yer Lemming. Fortunately I didn't enjoy smoking and gave it up after just a few teenage smokes, but I drank alcohol for more than thirty years, latterly more than was good for me. Having tried to cut down and always drifted back up again I learned about the Allen Carr method. After reading his book and attending two of his sessions I haven't touched alcohol for over a year and I know that I would never want to try it again. Allen Carr's books and clinics are primarily aimed at stopping smoking but his methods have been shown to work also for alcohol and heroin addiction, and if you want to stop smoking but are finding it difficult I recommend you consider giving his method a try.
Julian64 said:
Well in a way I think your lucky. I started my diet two weeks ago. need to go from 87Kg to about 80Kg.
Problem is I have a very sedentary job, which means restricting my intake enough to reduce my weight at a sensible rate means very little intake.
Breakfast is gone and so is lunch and therefore basically down to one meal a day losing about half a kilo a week.
The reason I say you are lucky is because I sometimes think its easier with ciggies. Stay away from then and eventually you won't need them.
Food is a lifelong addiction we all have.
Missing meals is not going to make you lose weight. Your body will notice your not eating as much, and will therefore start storing more energy as fat when you do eat, to make up for it.
You need to eat less, more often, to diet effectively.
Knocked smoking on the head for a week over Xmas, had a few on New Year's Eve, and a few since, but the last was either Saturday or Sunday.
Going to try and keep it that way...
And I'm a little surprised, to be honest: I don't want to kill anyone in particular yet. I thought I'd be climbing the walls having to contend with, well, "users". (Yes, I work in I.T.)
Going to try and keep it that way...
And I'm a little surprised, to be honest: I don't want to kill anyone in particular yet. I thought I'd be climbing the walls having to contend with, well, "users". (Yes, I work in I.T.)
now behave 
Kinky said:
Managed to give up for 3.5 days at new year ..... half a day into work and the stress kicked in 
Back to square 1 and starting again tomorrow (cold turkey).
K
Kinky,
I decided that when I was going to do it, I aws going to go cold turkey. None of that namby pamby nicotine replacement therapy for me!
I caved in midway through the second day. It was hell.
Now using a nicorette nasal inhaler (use on demand for a nicotine hit when I really NEED a cig) and its working a charm.
Really, cold turkey is a bitch and its SOO much easier not smoking with nicotine replacements of some kind.
I find a crave a smoke sometimes, but nothing like the NEED for one I would have if I were cold turkey.
BTW I now havent smoked for 3 days, 22 hours and 12 minutes according to a nifty little spreadsheet calculator dad knocked together and I'm £24.53 better off
I quit nearly 2 years ago, and feel a million trillion times better for it now - so very proud of myself that I did.
The one thing that got me through the "difficult" time was saying to myself "if I smoke now, I've wasted 5 days of effort in not smoking"
"If I smoke now, I've wasted 1 month of effort in not smoking..."
etc. etc. Recently I've really been tempted on a couple of occasions (BTaP for example I really fancied a cigar), but said to myself "if you smoke now, that's nearly 2yrs of effort wasted".
Hope it helps you!
The one thing that got me through the "difficult" time was saying to myself "if I smoke now, I've wasted 5 days of effort in not smoking"
"If I smoke now, I've wasted 1 month of effort in not smoking..."
etc. etc. Recently I've really been tempted on a couple of occasions (BTaP for example I really fancied a cigar), but said to myself "if you smoke now, that's nearly 2yrs of effort wasted".
Hope it helps you!
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