Sigh. Its national no smoking day tomorrow. So as a pre-emptive one this.

I’m going to attempt to pack in smoking. Anyone fancy joining me.

I’ll make the following suggestion/condition though. If say…. five of us agree to pack in, then the sanctimonious whining on the forum has to stop. Its totally counter-productive. The more the health-evangelists (yes Hora I’m not using the word nazi as you’ll immediately accuse me of being Hitler) go on about us all dying prematurely, the more I want to smoke. Mainly so I can die prematurely, and mercifully have less days on the planet to listen to your bleating. Its all about quality of life see 😀

So…. Who’s in then?

I’m going to attempt to pack in smoking. Anyone fancy joining me.

Not feeling particular optimistic then?

FTR, I quit on NYD 2003. POP.

I’m with you all the way binners… I’ve just had a bit of a headstart…

I stopped 16 days 1 hour and 17 mins ago (approx).
Ian

I’m in. Are we allowed patches gum etc or is this on willpower alone?

I’ll join you binners, despite the fact that I can’t believe that anything Hora says can actually affect you in any way!

I’ve set a target that when the current stock runs out, that’s it. It would have been last week but I was offered 200 for £20 and I’m weak 😳

We’re allowed to use anything at our disposal (apart from fags obviously). I’ve got a stock of patches. And failing that, heroine

oh you have a heroine which one?
Florence Nightingale? Dame Helen McCarthy?

I will give up after dinner jazz fags till August if that helps

Does anyone have access to a ‘facility’? I was thinking a locked room with no access to nicotine products of any sort for about a month should do it. A bit like Trainspotting without the puking.

Day 9 for me today, so if you’ll allow me my false start then I’m in too.

Champix – Available from your doctor, got them, followed the instructions haven’t smoked since.

Some of it comes across as a bit overly religious and it is not everyone’s cup of tea, but I found the first 4 steps of the Alcoholics Anonymous programme very useful to help understand addiction (to smoking in this case) and how to overcome it.

Bloody hell fella. Dealing with my alcoholism can wait til I’ve jacked the fags in 😉

If you haven’t got it, try the Allen Carr method. It’ll cost you less than a packet of tabs and may just sort you out: clicky-linky

It worked for me after many failed attempts with willpower alone.

Good luck.

Im in for not smoking tomorrow, if that works out then we can take it from there

konaboy- I have a cellar?

Count me in Binners. I’ve three fags left in my pocket, which I’ll have tonight. Then we’ll see how it goes…

TSY – I’ve had some offers in my time… I’ve also seen Pulp Fiction.

When I set my facility up for paying customers I may ask your advice…

Excellent. Looks like we got us a self-righteous, grumpy, short-tempered posse for tomorrow

Yeeeeeeeeeee-haw 😀

Be a quitter. Be fitter.

I quitterlicker

We can regale each other with tales of what snacks we’ve resorted too. I shall be bringing a selection into the office. I’m presently favouring the Mini Chedder as the solution to any potential problems. Have you tried the Branston one’s? Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Also we can see who manages to lose their rag with the highest ranking member of their company. We could have a league table. Maximum points for telling the Chief Exec to **** my ****, you ****ing ****!!!!! then a sliding scale from there down

It’s not going to be today for me I’m afraid 😳

Go for it. If you approach it in the right way, it really is quite easy. 😉

I’m in.

I’ve not slapped my nicorette patch on just yet. Though I’m armed with a pack of them.I’m going to see how far the will power thing lasts. Probably another five minutes.

My preparation has involved chain smoking last night until i felt sick. My mouth tasted like a clay oven this moring

I have a selection of savoury snacks to see me through the day.

Pork pie anyone?

If someone asked me to give up espresso’s I think I’d murder them.

binners get yourself into proper and serious coffee.

Mmm coffee. Even if here they make it with UHT milk…

Binners if you feel all crotchety and wound up, simply relieve that frustration by hurting Hora.

It’s a win-win.

Hurt him.

It’s dead easy Binners. Stop being silly.

Mmm coffee. Even if here they make it with UHT milk…

Whoa whoa whoa. You do not put milk in coffee unless its a mocha.

what you need to do is observe the craving coming and consuming you then feeling it go away again – this takes a painfully long time at first but becomes quicker and less often over time
I also found it odd how it did not do the things I thought it did. Angry have a fag to calm down for example – Angry do anything for 10 mins and you will be calmer etc
good luck
FWIW I drunk loads of brews but did not really eat much more

You do not put milk in coffee unless its a mocha

Yes you do.

Has Binners resorted to hurting Hora yet, as an outlet for his frustrations?

Ooh I do hope so. 😀

I jacked tabs about 4 years ago, cold turkey style. non of this namby pamby patch rubbish no way.

Chaps, find your triggers, the things that make you want to spark up and AVOID them. Its a habit you need to break.

My triggers were:
lager, instant coffee, a set of traffic lights on the A580.

I drank bitter or red wine, drank tea instead, drove a different way to work for 3 months.

easy.

Good luck all of you giving up. be strong and you’ll get there and when you do, you’ll have more money to spend on bike bits!

what you need to do is observe the craving coming and consuming you then feeling it go away again –

Oh yes, this especially!! Junkyard you’ve hit the nail on the head. It got to stage where I could feel wanting a fag coming on, and then moments later the feeling would just go away, at first you feel it’s never going away, but it does, and eventually it comes and goes in a flash.

What is really weird is the dreams where it feels so real that for a moment in the morning you wake up thinking you still smoke. Properly freaked me out!

I went through a phase when, in every dream I had, I was smoking. Wtf? I’ve never smoked and never wanted to!

Or have I…..? 😯

I sometimes dreamed I was nodding off with a fag in my hand (something I did in bed when I did smoke). When I had these vivid dreams I’d wake up sweating and scared and I’d manually check the whole bed ‘just incase’ before the fog of sleep gave way to reality.

Only had these dreams post-quiting.

Then maybe you shouldn’t have given up then?

Has Binners started hurting you yet?

Did you manage it?
I resisted the temptation of an after dinner jazz one after a particularily stressful evening spent at Ikea – that said I am over the addiction so no doubt not as easy for you.

Dreaming about giant cigarettes eh ? Hello, Mr Freud, over to you…