The Southern Yeti - Member
Binners, emsz this is the only time being a quitter is a thing of pride - when you see someone else smoking in their car, outside their work, the pub... feel pity for them, not jealousy... the mindset change!
That's an interesting way of looking at it actually!
Have pride in being a quitter, I like that.
Weird shit happens at night. I think it's your brain going "Wow, all this extra oxygen man. And even better, no Carbon Monoxide. Weeeeeeeeeeee!"
I had great sex dreams at first. 🙂 Now they're just back to the same old ones of trying to beat Jamie off with a shitty stick. 🙁
I'm loving the decisions to give up. It also helps to not just chuck out the ciggies and baccy but to also get rid of any paraphernalia too. Lighters, rizlas, rolling machines, filters. I actually had a weak moment when I was washing an old work fleece and found a lighter and a packet of green rizla. I was a fraction of willpower away from buying a pack of tobacco to go with them.
Quitters are awesome.
I had great sex dreams at first. 😀
Now they're just back to the same old ones of trying to beat Jamie off with a shitty stick 🙁
Same thing innit? 8)
Remember kids:
Smokers are Jokers !
but to also get rid of any paraphernalia too
I second that, having to buy everything to have cheeky puff has stopped me more than once. Having to just buy some baccy, too easy to just think... why not?
Having a £100 bet with a mate is also acting as an insentive this time.
This thread has strengthened my resolve just a little bit more today.
I made a cake with some extra herbage. I've found all my lighters and thrown them out as well. Flatmate thinks i'll last till the weekend. ( he doesnt smoke) I now have some motivation.
*whines*
God I wanna fag......
😐
Another bit of motivation that has helped me is stuff all your tobacco money in a jar and once a month go and spend it on fripperies.
A fiver a day soon adds up
deadlydarcy - Member
This thread has strengthened my resolve just a little bit more today.
How long have you been off them now? Almost 2 months isn't it?
Emsz hang in there, it will get better, but it isn't easy.
emsz - Stop whining and start celebrating how long since you last smoked... and enjoy the cake 8)
spend it on fripperies
Such as Tesco value baked beans?
[b]BIG[/b]
😉
About 12 1/2 years ago, (not counting, but carry on reading, you'll get why I know...) I was sitting in my lounge with my baby daughter on my lap, just really enjoying some time with her. I realised that I wanted to put her down, or pass her to my lovely wife ... so I could go outside for a fag.
I gave up less than a month later, I took some time to psych myself up, then giving up really was easy, never even got close to the cravings being worse than my resolve.
You can do it, but don't underestimate the beast.
Yep, it can be done so good luck to you all. 🙂
First couple of weeks were the hardest I found but never went back to them and have absolutely no desire to either.
I really appreciated the return of my (bloodhound) sense of smell and tastebuds.
Happy to offer support with soundbites!
C_G
(smoker for 20 years who swapped tobacco addiction for a different addiction)
My first AWESOME tag. Yay!
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Wow, I'm tagged as awesome too. Motivation enough in itself. I'm going to have a few beers tonight (its the start of the weekend after all) and I'm going to smoke like a chimley. A final hurrah. Got 10 fags left.
Tomorrow is D-day. Tally ho!!!!
good luck everyone 🙂
30 a day 20+ years but quit for over a year for me now.
Tried and failed many times in the past but then one day worked out that I would never wake up one morning as a non-smoker unless I did something about it.
If you do end up having a ciggie while giving up don't treat it as a total and utter failure. Try to accept that you are only human, sometimes making mistakes and then continue your giving up.
Best of luck to all
I gave up a couple of years ago. Still addicted to nicotine gum alas...
I gave up a couple of years ago. Still addicted to nicotine gum alas...
Maybe try the fags to get off them?
I quit when my girlfriends dad died at 48 of cancer. I never want to see her that upset again, nor be responsible for her being upset. When I got the urge to light up I thought of her crying & seeing that great man who left us too soon, on the say he died.
I have one cigar at Christmas & Birthdays but i gave decided to give up as I didn't really enjoy my cigar this Xmas (£15 wasted)
Awesome 8)
8 months now, Allen Carr and other motivators. Paid for my summer holiday, don't stink, don't cough, don't wake up feeling like I've licked a dog clean, don't get ill in the winter, more energy.
Still get the odd 'A fag would be nice' every now and then but its not a cravig in the same way you get when you first quit, its just a fleeting thought but for me there's no such thing as the occassional fag, its an addiction and its easier staying quit than it is to only smoke the odd one every now and then.
did someone suggest putting the money you don't spend on smokes in a jar?
i was 20 a day, stopped in 1999. at £6 a day over 11 years that's a rather large jar
Best of luck for tomorrow binners.
I have the day off so I'll be checking to see how you and emsz are getting along 🙂
Ps, best of luck to all the quitters. It's hard but worth it.
Good luck to the quitters also. I cannot help but imagine them chain smoking like crazy right now 😀
Jamie - Member
Good luck to the quitters also. I cannot help but imagine them chain smoking like crazy right now
Some [i]really[/i] serious chain smoking may make them realise how disgusting smoking is.
Ever smoked two cigarettes/rollies/jazzy smokes in a row? Bleurrgh! Talk about minging.
Personally speaking I reckon if you are chaining it before your stop date then you don't want to stop as you are just making the stopping worse as you have more poisons in your body to get rid of.
When I stopped this time around I did not tell anyone, even my wife. She then got quite niggled with me when I told her that I had stopped, but stopping for me was a very personal thing and I did not want to tell her what I was doing in case I let her down again...
Best of British anyway guys and girls 🙂
Good Morning fellow quitters. How does the air taste this morning?
TSY (4 days)
Good luck to the quitters.
I have quit a few times, the first when I was 22 and my dad died of lung cancer. I would say I am 95% non smoker now, although all this chat about smoking really did make me feel like smoking last night! At times of stress it's an easy fix.
I read somewhere that in 72 hours the physical addiction has passed, after that it is all in your head and I have found that to work for me. Cutting down worked better for me than cold turkey, every day cutting one of the habit fags (the waiting for a bus fag was the hardest) but the big thing was really wanting to, when I got into biking seriously and wanted to race. And making more and more friends who are sporty and despise smoking.
So good luck and stick with it and if you lapse don't kill yourself over it, get back on the quitting.
P.S and drink loads of water, eat fruit and veg you will find out why soon.
Same question from me 🙂
EDIT: ...as Yeti
Morning all. Progress report, day 1:
Went to the pub last night to meet one of my mates. She walks in with a face like a smacked arse. What was up? She packed in smoking yesterday. What a coincidence.
Obviously I laughed in her face and nipped for a fag. Any-road-up - we made a pact. We both smoked like chimneys last night and had our last ever fag together. No more! And I have a quitting partner - as well as Emsz
So this morning my mouth tasted like a group of particularly pungent students have been occupying it for a week.
Never again 😀
Good work binners, you.. we.. can do this! 😀
Ain't no one cooler than emsz on here, so quitting is officially cool!
We can indeed do it Yeti. I'm pretty damn determined. Which is odd since this only came about yesterday afternoon.I'm doing it for my daughters after reading concepts and Mastiles posts yesterday though. If I'm feeling weak then I'll simply refer to this thread.
Here's an idea: why don't we arrange a ride for the STW non-smokers in the summer. Then we can get together, a bit further down the line, and compare the new frames/forks/general bling/goodies we'll have bought with the money we've not smoked. I've already made a shopping list 😀
i can recomend some good bongs if that helps anyone 8)
best of luck to you all it is hard at first but I knew after the first day i would never smoke again as you just feel so much better..it gets easier eventually and you can feel the craving arrive then leave.
Sends supportive vibes via interweb
binners on a serious note- if you need support etc with quiting I'm all ears and phone etc etc.
I've forgotten with the fog of time but last night I remembered the amount of times I actually 'quit' for brief periods. Gawd it was hard.
The awesomeness of the quitters is shining through. Any word from emsz?
Hey quitters
Well, slighty wasted last night from herby cake, check out my... Um... Blurry post on the fat kids thread LOL. Positively leptt out of bed this morning which is absolutely not me!! Went for run, was ok. Not feeling too bad to be honest.
18 hours non smoking
Need to think about something else though to keep my mind off it
surely there's something everyone in this thread can enjoy thinking about to keep your minds off the cigarettes.... supremely attractive women?
Binners - I'd be well up for an ex-smokers ride, think it's a great idea, added bit of motivation and all that.
Yep, Hora.. I know all about that. In the last 2 years I've restarted on numerous occasions... always on the basis that...
'I'll be okay to smoke for this one night/ this weekend/ festival/ holiday'
Each time it has meant smokig for at least a month. Except this xmas, where I only ended up smoking for 2 weeks.
I'd say if your x days in and really must have one- have one.
Congratulate yourself for doing x days. DONT beat yourself up. You'll make the process of quiting feel really stressful and a real uphill fight (lifes too stressful so sod quiting again for a while etc).
Then set yourself up to quit for a little longer next time- say even a day longer is a bonus. Keep doing that day by day and before you know it you'll suddenly think 'heck its been 6months since I quit- wow and I didnt realise'
emsz, according to Jamie's post:
8 HOURS
You are already at:
[i]Carbon monoxide level in blood drops to normal.
Oxygen level in blood increases to normal.[/i]
Shortly you will be at:
[i]24 HOURS
Chance of heart attack decreases.
48 HOURS
Nerve endings start regrowing.
Ability to smell and taste is enhanced.[/i]
How awesome is your body for starting to repair itself?!
Hora - seeing as you're being all supportive. Can I come round and kick you in the nads when I inevitably get really irritable? 🙂
I was lucky that I did not suffer the irritability that most suffer from when giving up smoking and I think a lot of it was linked to my state of mind at the time.
I hated smoking so much that I was really pleased to be giving up a habit that I despised and it seemed to work.
I've fluffed and folded, hoovered and polished, washed up, house smells of bleach. I've plucked and shaved, now going to recycle and shop for tea. Only couple of hours to go to 24 hours. Feeling pretty cool.
WILL not buy sweeties to compensate
Awesomeness shining through.
Good stuff emsz.
3 hours.
3 days.
1 week.
3 weeks.
Awesome 8)
WILL not buy sweeties to compensate
If it helps initially then why not?
Something to suck on, (stop laughing at the back), like polos/boiled sweets etc if you are worried about piling on calories. My weapon of choice was chupa chups 8)
emsz - go walk past a pub and see an old fag-hag smoking! Look at her skin, errgghh!
Just had the pleasure of being able someone smoking by the fire escape whilst I was doing an RPM class down the gym.
Keeping yourself out of mischief then Emsz?
It was a novelty not to feel the need to pop out for a fag at lunchtime. Can't say I missed it. I do it purely unthinkingly.
However - I'm starting to get concerned about my Mini Cheddar intake. Have you had the Branston ones? Mmmmmmmmmmmmm. Miles better than fags 😀
I put on just over half a stone after I stopped smoking. I conducted a mini survey on another forum and that seemed to be about the average amount, although it was quite variable with some quitters managing not to put any on, lucky gits.
I found rather than eat more when I [s]quite[/s] quit, I ate loads when smoking anyways, it was the boozing that increased.
remember "if she smokes, she pokes".... dont let the world thing you're a whore by smoking, you're all better than that*
*TSY excluded obviously 😈
Pah! Half a stone? That's nowt when you're the size of a barrage balloon anyway. Half a stone I can live with 😀
Update from our awesome quitters please 😀
It's hard work on a Friday night when you go out with friends and have a few drinks. That scenario would often be the downfall of me.
Nowadays though it must be a lot easier with the ban on smoking in public places.
I am looking out the window here and it is snowing and just around freezing, can't be much fun for those who are still smoking hanging around outside in the smoking area having a smoke on nights like this.
Let's hope our STW quitters are doing well.
Whoah, whoah, Phil, whoah... are you saying I'm not better than that, or that I can still be a ho even if I don't smoke no mo'?
Been out for a few beers, now enjoying a fine glass of armangac. I might've well just drunk any old cheap brandy when I was smoking 😳
How are the others gettin along? emsz is over a day now, binners must be close...
Good stuff TSY. 8)
Weekends will always be tough but [b]YES[/b] you can all succeed. 🙂
Now you see the 'one won't hurt' tag up there? That was written by someone less awesome than you guys. The person who wrote it is jealous and wants to see you fail to justify their weakness. Believe in yourselves. You are all AWESOME, from one who knows. 😉
After 24hrs you've experienced most of the habitual smokes and survived, the first one of the day, the coffees, work etc, so tomorrow will be easier. Respect.
Well nobody's tagged me as Awesome have they!
I tell you what's not Awesome... not getting a dispatch note for my new frame.
I feel the same about smoking as I did pre my Xmas indulgence. I'm just here to cheer on the others...
How are our quitters today?
Your breath should be a whole lot nicer. It might not feel like it, but your body is breathing a little easier and food should already be tasting better. Energy levels should be increasing.
AWESOME 🙂
Come on quitters, where are you?
I'm doing a big tidy up round the house this morning... found 4 packs of Rizzla, almost put them in my paraphernalia box... they're now in the bin covered in food waste.
Also... if you're as obsessive about things as me, spend this weeks ciggy money on a blood pressure monitor and enjoy watching your vital stats improve over the coming months 8)
I had a cigar and couple of Marlboro over christmas, just to see what it's like. Pleasant enough but didn't see the point in spending money on it and losing health and stinking like an ashtray.
Go on quitters, you can be ex smokers, just think about the self-esteem boost you'd get turning down Cheryl Cole...
Probably still in bed having sex dreams. 🙂
How's Spud iDave?
Spud is solid thanks
Been working on his iron will. Putty in my hands now...
Good stuff. Life's easier with an obedient pup.
Oops double post.
Afternoon all
You'll be pleased to hear I'm doing worryingly well. Had a few beers last night but didn't go out. Had the urge but not that strongly.
This morning I walked down to the shop to get the papers. Now normally this is my cue for 'first cig of the day'. However; I got to the newsagent and thought 'I wonder why I've not thought about the first fag of the day?'. So I'm more intrigued as to why I'm not finding it harder.
Its early days yet, but that bodes very well indeed 🙂
The urge for nicotine is strongest just after you finish a ciggy, so the longer you are without, the lower the desire to smoke. That's the physical addiction finished now, the rest is just mental.
Be happy, you are now without any physical addiction. 😆
Awesome Binners. By tomorrow night you'll have overcome the physical dependency, after that point it's just a habitual or stress trigger that'll drive you to smoke.
And it sounds like you're doing well with the habitual side of addiction...
Now you see the 'one won't hurt' tag up there? That was written by someone less awesome than you guys. The person who wrote it is jealous and wants to see you fail to justify their weakness. Believe in yourselves. You are all AWESOME, from one who knows.
😳 🙁 soz - all guilt-wracked now
You are all OSSUM in my book though (look, the sun's even come out to celebrate you all giving up)
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I mainly used to smoke when I was drinking. Been off the Melvins for 2 weeks now. Feelin good!
Bit fat though 🙁
Awesome stuff from binners and KT1973.
Any news on emsz?
Muddypuddle - Member
I'm thinking of joining you on Monday - hmmmm, decisions, decisions.
Go for it!
At least give it a decent try as it giving up smoking is not always something you will succeed at first time around. I reckon I must have tried to give up around 20 times before now.
Keep logged into here and posting as you will get plenty of support 🙂
Here's what I've done as an incentive to myself. I've gone and bought a nice watch and I've told the Mrs if she catches me smoking she can take it and put it on ebay.
Although my main incentive is being healthy enough to see my children grow up.
Best of luck to everyone who's quitting
Not smoked now for 4 1/2 years, feel better and all the money that I would have spent has go on my bikes/equipment, it was probably cheaper smoking TBH but mountain bikes are way more fun.
Morning fag fans.
Who else has made it through the weekend smoke free? If you've got this far you've made it through the toughest 3 days, if you indulged... Monday is the best day for qutting!
Well we know that sadly, one of our quitters has fallen off the wagon, albeit temporarily I'm sure 🙂
What's the word on binners?
Afternoon all
Right! Firstly: I confess. I lapsed yesterday. But this isn't playing out as planned at all. In order that I wasn't tempted I decided to avoid having a beer. So I've had a booze free weekend. The first in a very long time.
I did however find a packet of fags in my glove compartment yesterday and I relapsed, almost unthinkingly (i get very stressed watching united games). However; I'm not giving up giving up. I'm back on the wagon again this morning. I'm getting there! I'm back to commuting on the bike so hope to see my fitness improve if I stay off both the beer and the fags
I survived all weekend without a single smoke, but oh my holey Jeebus it was hard going! And I ate just about everything I had in the kitchen.
So my initial plan to lose the mince pie belly gained over Xmas has taken a back seat, but I reckon there's much more benefit from stopping smoking than from stopping snacking.
Well done to those who avoided the dreaded weed!
As to those who have succumbed, well keep trying, it is hard work but worth it 🙂
.....last week's 'giving up' was a bit of a non-starter. Back on today....polos aren't addictive are they?